Rogerborg

I guess it'll depend on what they've listed it (well, the various "bits") as. It's generally in the 2%-4% range, plus the £15-20 mugging from the courier when they charge you for the privilege of paying the duty to HMRC on your behalf - that's the bit that really winds me up.

I'm half convinced that Norn Ireland has already been assimilated by the Euroborg Collective, add there are only token protests to the contrary being made.

They're teasing at over 9,000.

It depends on the site. The Depot (departed but about to be resurrected) banned all Dan Wesson style shell loading revolvers, Mk23s with silencers (which could be hiding barrel extensions), and all grenade shells, either shower or Whatever-Mikes. It's always worth asking before buying anything remotely out of the ordinary.

That, really. Maple Leaf macarons really are very decent. Although kudos for everything else, that's all the right stuff.

Nope, picking at the same scab isn't going to work, we're all online veterans here. Maybe try something about his mum?

Interesting, I've not yet found that the colour of my gun affected my running and jumping speed, but they couldn't say it if it weren't true.

Great to hear it, it's always worth cleaning and lubing any new airsoft toy. Anything that it ships with is likely to be for corrosion control rather than slipperiness.

I would note that I've tried Cat Crap vs Revision wipes, eye-vs-eye, and the Revisions did a better job. Although that was on a PETG inner lens, results will almost certainly vary.

Decent of you, and a good plan to abduct a Crye baby and wear him like a skinsuit. 👍 You could also post this on the site's Facebook page or similar.

Oh man, those feels. Rain-X helps, as does Cat Crap (yes, you right that read) paste. The best potion I've tried is Revision anti-fog wipes, which don't come cheap, but I reckon are worth it, and the price per wipe can plummet when bought in bulk and amortised over several years. Double pane is another big step. Dye i4 and i5 masks are double paned, as are Pyramex iForce goggles (although there are reported issues with the inner pane crazing). You can also dual-pane any goggles with a sheet of PETG plastic (0.7mm-1mm) and strips of 2mm thick double sided self adhesive foam. Then we get to fans, which also work, and you don't need that much air volume. I have FMA goggles which do the job, or you can buy an ExFog system, or fettle up something yourself, typically using a radial fan like this and some tubing and hot melt glue / sugru or similar to seal them together. They can be had in 5V and 12V versions and either can be powered by a small lipo or 9V battery.

As in, can the barrel be wiggled around independently of the hop unit? Worse case you could put some tape around it to try and firm it up. This is a pretty common airsoft bodge, I've just run a strip of electrical tape along my DMR inner barrel to snug it up inside the outer. Mmm, the Magnus effect is super when you get everything lined up just so and the spin axis is perfectly vertical. If it's consistently going off to one side or another that's generally down to barrel misalignment, or pressure on one side or another of the bucking. Inconsistent could be a loose hop arm, although you'd need pretty small shims to address that and I'd look for other causes first. The first thing I'd do is to clean the barrel. Many barrels come lightly oiled for shipping, it's always worth giving them a thorough clean out and then an occasional wipe through. Then I'd replace the hop rubber with a Maple Leaf, either a Macaron, or a Mr Hop, of 60 or 50 degree hardness. And I'd feed it 0.28g BBs, or whatever it will hop. I have no idea what hop unit is in there (all bullpups are pure degeneracy) so I wouldn't like to give any bad advice there.

Good plan, that always works on the intardnets. Let's try this one: "OK, now that I've got the final word in, nobody else post in this thread."

I've only seen it happening in CQB, with (I'm fairly confident) 0.2g ASG Blasters, not otherwise. Wearing glasses under the mash should prevent any issues from that, or from paint spalling.

Are you open to receiving new data on that?

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The ring is a shim that goes between the inner barrel and the hop unit, to help secure and stabilise it. Pop it over the barrel, slide it down, and press it firmly in so that it disappears inside the hop unit. Because inner barrels don't have consistent thicknesses, you may find that the stock ring isn't a perfect fit with an aftermarket barrel. The spring pushes the hop unit back against the gearbox, helping to create a more consistent distance between the nozzle, feed tube, and the hop bucking lips. Just fractions of a millimetre of front-to-back play in the hop unit can create low or inconsistent energy, or misfeeding issues. That's one of the issues with airsoft toys, they require fine tolerances, but have fairly shoddy engineering. There can be a fair amount of shimming needed to get everything lined up just so. Gearbox gears are the most obvious example, plus these hop unit issues, and I've even had to fit shims inside a couple of motors to reduce the amount of longitudinal play in the shaft.

Nope, I've got fatigue from getting my hopes up then reaching the end of the order process and seeing "LOL jk m8" again and again.

Just saw that there are calls to de-rubberise, and the EU has already done so. I wouldn't want to be breathing that stuff in. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/expert-makes-plea-ban-toxic-24712148

I was too feart to carry on with the order to find out. What a complete shitshow, why can't they just have a banner headline? It's not rocket surgery to determine when someone has an IP or meatspace UK address. I mean, they even know that far ahead in the process!

Indeed, I tried putting it in my TaiwanGun address, and the weird way that Eurostanis interpret addresses completely messed it up and did indeed make the address essentially indecipherable. I'd almost sympathise with UPS had they tried to deliver it

I prefer this motto.

Yup, that looks new. I haven't taken the order any further though to see if they change their mind later. At our risk is a peculiar contractual term, that will take some wrangling to sort out. The thing is, I do trust TaiwanGun (and GunFire) to label things properly, and write a UKARA number on it prominently, as opposed to random sellers from the mysterious Orient.

For proving a defence (which isn't the same as being licensed). However, we're not responsible for the labelling, and I'd seen all sorts of "best sport toy electronic gift" style jibba-jabba and random declared value on packaging - which is one reason that I've never risked importing a RIF from Chinaland. As per OP's original threat-o-gram, that's a separate legal problem to whether the item is prohibited. It seems unfair to punish recipients for something outwith our control, but if you don't like it, create your own national scale institutionalised protection racket, I guess. Typically, they don't say which of the three possible reasons is behind the seizure, just "See you in court if you want it, good luck guessing which it is."

Ahoy, and welcome back. I've only been playing for 4 years (less the written-off one), but the good new is that there are some constants: 1) Physics still works on rules rather than belief and 2) No airsofter believes that I don't think there's been any huge improvements in boltie tech recently, it's more about heavy, consistent BBs, and maybe a decent hop unit - although a TDC mod costs pennies. There's maybe a higher volume of fire being spammed around - this is actually an issue at my smallish local site - but generally most of it is still missing. Find a decent site with non-whanger players and it's still a fun day out playing dress up with toy guns.