Rogerborg

Ahoy and welcome. I'm not sure you're being entirely sincere about "experts" and "intelligent athletes", but we can work with it. Fat Losers thread: You're not going to get lean and fit just from crawling through the wood every couple of Sundays (weather permitting), so I'd drop the carbs, get on your bike, and view leaping through the undergrowth as the destination, not the journey. On the airsofting, the first thing I'd do it is to rent at your local site. You'll get a basic electric carbine, hi-cap mag and a bottle of BBs, plus some ropey eye protection for maybe £20 extra (and the BBs will be worth half of that). If you have a bad day due to nobjockey players or marshals, don't despair, try another site. You don't need camo or anything tacticool, just boots with decent ankle support, and I really wouldn't skimp there as you don't want to have to be hauled out of the depths of Mirkwood with your feet pointing arsey-versey.

I think the answer is a definite maybe. The feature list is great, but Specna have a history of inconsistent QC due to changing OEMs. All I can say is that I'm happy with the basic Edge that I bought recently and can't find anything wrong with it, internally or externally. However, the Orion gearbox is picking up quite the reputation for cracking, even though they're radiused at the factory, so it's somewhat of a gamble. But then what isn't in airsoft? (Answer: a CYMA AK).

That should be more than sufficient. I used 6 [edit, dammit] 8 PLI 0.7mm 2.47mm hole, and couldn't get it to dent in the garage with point blank 1.1J / 0.25g. Although I never actually used it in game (as I managed to get polycarb working) and of course, test as hot and heavy as you can. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/153822205824 And I'd agree with using stainless, what I actually got was the black epoxy stuff (because tacticool stealth) but that's going to be prone to spalling.

They're dead simple to do, just fill the barrel, spooge some silicone (sugru, plumbers, I used RTV) into the window, scrape off the excess, and done. However... I used a 6mm drill bit packed with PTFE tape to fill the barrel. Nope. The RTV protruded very slightly into it, but that was enough to make it sky 0.32g even with no hop - I mean, with the hop arm actually removed, and just the pressure from the flat-hopped bucking rubber on the patch. So if you're going to do it, I'd get the barrel packed as tightly as you can, and leave the silicone to cure for some time before removing the packing. In the end, I scraped it out and went back to a Maple Leaf macaron 60 degree, which does indeed work just fine. That said, I'm going to try again on my backup-backup-CYMA and see if I can get it working next time.

Hmm, that is an interesting design. If you turn the adjustment wheel by small amounts, left and right, can you see the final gear moving immediately, and directly? What I've noticed (on a cheap stock CYMA unit) is that the turning it right, and then a fraction left, or vice versa, just initially takes up free space between the gears as they reverse, and that free space could be enough to let the hop arm move in use. The Modify may be well enough engineered (I use that word loosely in the context of airsoft) to not have that issue though. When adjusting a rotary, I got into the habit of ending the adjustment by adding hop, not taking it off: if I needed to reduce the hop, I took it back too far, then added more on, so that the gears were meshed and putting pressure on the hop arm, without any slack. Then I binned it off for a ZCI rotary, and never looked back.

Handy, given that their prices appear to be about 10% above PatrolBase to begin with.

It's a compelling argument, but unlike Disney+, thefappening.plus is free to access.

Disney+ Premium. You need to pay a subscription to be able to pay extra. Narp, not even for Scarlett Johanson GHK G5s.

I did come close to buying a CYMA M14 to DMR, but the fiddly nature of them put me off. I'll regret it when my Specna gearbox grenades, mind, and given that everything we do is damn silly, I probably should have followed my heart rather than my head on that one.

I agree, this is one for @Sitting Duck (I think we need a third invocation to summon him) All I'd say is that with a 1.8J DMR build I went with a full cylinder for a 455mm barrel, because with DMR rate of fire, I don't have any concerns about PME or sucking when I should be blowing, and I reckon if just enough is good, then more must be better, right?

As Luke at Negative keeps noting, sometimes you just get noisy gears even with perfect shimming. I've taken to using a tin of Carlube LM2 multi-purpose grease now, because it happened to be closest to hand one day, seems to work as well as anything else I've tried, and might be reducing noise a bit. Although, again, ritual beliefs.

Agreed on the shower shells and Foo-Mikes. At ranges where you can use them, you probably shouldn't. Then again, I've never seen one actually used in game. Tags, I can really do without anything heavier than a BB being shot around. It's bad enough taking a .46g at 2J, and those whacky or explodey shells, no, I really don't fancy them. I've seen the bangy ones lobbed by marshals to add atmosphere to a filmsim, but in a general skirmish by any rando that can afford them and who is looking for every opportunity to yeet them downrange?

Tri-shotguns. You can tell yourself that the instant trigger response and BBs spread are an advantage, but at ranges where the response matters, the spread is minimal, and at ranges where you get spread, you could put a lot more BBs downrange with any auto or fully-semi-automatic AEG or gas gun. They're still hella satisfying when you get a hit, but that's from putting in the effort, not because they're particularly effective.

I've never liked dial units, there's way too much slop and slack in the gears. I'm not sure if the Modify unit is a dial or a rotary, given that it's about the worse name for a unit that you're trying to search for. I'd agree with trying a softer nub, either the Gear Parts Omega 70 - in stock, amazingly! https://www.ak2m4.co.uk/internal-parts/hop-up-buckings-nubs/omega-nub-soft-70-gear-parts - or try a standard cylindrical nub. You could also try a flat-hop style nub if you can find one, or make your own from sugru, RTV or plumber's silicone.

We all have our own rituals, but I start by shimming under[*] the spur gear until it's just clear of the gearbox and not scraping on it at all. I've not had a gearbox yet which didn't need some shims under the spur. Then I shim the bevel and sector to sit just above the spur and do spin tests with the gearbox closed and held in the same orientation, left-side down. Only then do I put shims above the gears and hold the box upright or right-side-down. I'd agree with wanting at least one 0.1mm shim on both sides of each gear to give a flat surface for the gear to spin on, unless there's literally no free play at all in it with no shimming. [*] "under" with the left hand side of the gearbox on the bench, nozzle to the right.

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That was about 21 for me, sadly. The struggle has been real since then, I sorted myself out in my 30s with restricted hours eating, lots of cycling, and some weights, but then I made the mistake of buying a motorised bicycle, and, oops, that was that. But as God is my witness, I will see my toes again. Absolutely, which is why it's so important to find a diet that you can stick to. I'm amazed how easy it's been to drop the bad carbs, after the first week. Hunger pangs and cravings have plummeted and restricted hours eating is a doddle. There's some evidence that just 3 x 10 minutes of interval sprints a week can have most of the health benefits of regular daily exercise, although that's not for me, I prefer moderate daily cycling. I would highlight the benefits of an indoor option like an exercise bike so that you don't have an excuse to skip it in bad weather.

Oh, it was hilarious, the chrono was set to the correct BB weight, and I actually pointed at the Joules number on it. But he still insisted on looking up the FPS figure and BB weight on an app on his phone, because, uhhh, you trust the chrono's FPS number, but not its ability to do a simple piece of arithmetic with it?

It does make a lot of sense, and I've been recommending to my local site that they tape-mark DMRs in particular as otherwise there's no way for marshals and players to tell in game. I could run a lonnnng M4 at 1.1J, alongside a Mk23 pistol and barrel extended/silencer running at over 1.5J, and how are they supposed to know which one needs to respect a MED and ROF limit? (Segues into rant about Mk23s and CO2 pistols...)

I appreciate being chronoed in game, but marshals need to understand that they're looking for folk who cheated the morning chrono, not the victims of circumstance. Gas guns will creep up as the temperature rises. If you chrono first thing in the morning, gas guns that are are 0.1J under the site limit are 100% going to be over it an hour later. Either don't let them on the field, or be sure that whoever chronos them later understands this. The correct response in that case is to ask players to take it out of the game, and to offer a rental gun if you have any available, not to punt them off site. If there are multiple site chronos available, test on the one that gives the lowest reading - or else bin all of them except the one that give the highest. Grinds my gears, the number of marshals who don't know the first thing about what they're doing. [Rants about the marshal that didn't know how to read the Joules number off a chrono on a site that chronos in Joules]

Is what I wouldn't put in if you're going for a spicy ROF. Although I'm just repeating internets wisdom, for what that's good for (HUH! Absolutely nothing!)

Sort-of related, but Patrol Base seem to be getting a bit fruity in their Boneyard descriptions. I'm guessing that they're getting tired of punters whinging "but i fort it wud wurk" over and over.

It's a tricky one. Given the propensity of airsofters to clump around objectives, I'd suggest that the number of marshals needs to scale more with the site topography and objectives, not the number of players. In English, you need fewer marshals-per-player when you have more players. Which makes getting a site up and running tricky and expensive. This is off the top of my dome, I could be completely wrong about that. What I am sure about is that I'd rather have fewer, better marshals around than a mob of shruggers, phone twiddlers, or gingers.

Er, sugars are carbohydrates. If we're talking complex carbs, why load your bloodstream with sugars before you have to? There does seem to be a fair case building that insulin resistance is the slippery slope to a whole raft of common Western health woes. I'd suggest that you can tolerate more carbs, if you're burning them off. The Tsimane people are the prime example of that, doing very well on a high-fibre, complex-carb diet, but a key factor is that they're constantly active so will be using the simple sugars as fast as they're being broken down. As above, when I'm doing a day airsofting (thread relevance) I do have some carbs at breakfast, although I can also get by perfectly fine without them on my disgustang excess body fat and plenty of water. Day-to-day, I'm sitting at a keyboard, with periods of cycling. Blood sugars begone, I'll have no truck with thee. I guess anyone lucky enough to have next to no body fat does need to carb load before exertion, but how many AFUKers does that describe? Airsoft day is also bacon day. It's got electrolytes, right? That's the Big Spud lobby talking. He really doesn't, he's not looked into this all that much, and it's hard to tell the science from the propaganda or woo. I mean, pretty much anyone can set themselves up as a nutritionist and make sweeping statements without either evidence or consequence. I guess the key thing is that if you're fat or lethargic, then whatever you're eating or doing needs to change. You won't know until you try. I tried some tortilla chips tonight, as an experiment, and now I feel bloated and bleurgh. Untry, untry.

Sorry to hear that. I've often wondered what the score is with getting out of marshalling once you've been suckered into it. I know some sites pay, and some just offer free game days (if you ever get to use them), but at some point HMRC is going to come sniffing around insisting that everyone who is asked to show up gets paid for it, as they've already done with shoot beaters and pickers.