Rogerborg

Good shout, this should be part of regular maintenance as well.

Yup, I'm pre-tightening my belt. And fine-weather hobby suppliers tend to call it a day in autumn, you see it with bike dealers as well. Mmm, some comments in the Facebook post about punters trying out guns at retailers, and then buying online while still in the shop, without even asking for a price match. That's a proper dick move.

Oh, right, ahoy and welcome. 😆

I bought some mags from them as they were the only stockist. Never the cheapest that I've seen, little low end stuff, and the site is an utter shitshow for actually finding what you're looking for. I do understand that their prices have to be higher to cover the costs of the bricks and mortar, but that's really only a draw for people shopping and buying in person. Mmm, good news is that the business will go to them, bad news is that it's autumn and the lean times are already starting - and Zero One is fire-sailing their stock. I mean, if they actually get around to applying the promised discount, which it doesn't seem like they have.

As much as this is <oh-well-anyway.gif>, it's also a yellow flag about the state of retail and airsoft in particular in the UK. We really don't want to have to be importing individually from Abroadland.

Yup, that. Just cut a thin rectangle of pencil eraser or your material of choice, the same size as the hop window, and lay it on top of the hop rubber before putting the arm and nub back on. Another good call. Heck, the stock nub on my XR-5 was a tube of hard plastic. And glued into the hop arm. Very peculiar, but it did actually work (before I immediately binned it off for an Omega and Maple Leaf). On that last point, what bucking did you fit? Maple Leaf buckings generally do a decent job in most hop units.

Do you mean that there's barely any movement in the hop arm, or that it moves, but you can see that it's still barely pushes the bucking into the barrel? Either way, it sounds like you'll just have to find a way to put more pressure on the bucking with a larger nub. The pencil eraser is a good shout, just cut it larger. Or use thin slivers of eraser, Sugru, or even pieces of electrical tape in a pinch to shim out between the nub and the bucking.

Oh, we're doing this now.

The retailer needs to adduce a defence. Selling a RIF to dad to gift on to son to use for playing airsoft at insured sites would seem to satisfy the letter and spirit of the law, and no offences would be committed by dad or son in either case - if buying within the UK. However, importation is an offence, and you'll need to provide more evidence than calling up BBGnuz4U and saying "Aw, go on, mister, I've saved up all my 50ps, I'll be ever so careful, honest, mister." Don't risk it, it's likely to result in seizure or possibly even criminal charges - people have had knocks on the door from police over importation. So, anyway: Would I be wrong in assuming that the answer is "I'm thinking about playing, honest, mister."

That needs qualified. Guns will run hotter on 11.1V lipo than on 7.4V lipo or 9.6V life. However, when it comes to battery C ratings, higher is always better - the battery won't supply more current than the motor wants to draw. And the ARP 9 2.0 recommends 11.1V, so it shouldn't be an issue. We'll need to know more about what "motor overheating issues" actually means, and the use being made of it. Running it like a support gun, or constant semi-auto trigger spamming will put heat in the motor. What are the symptoms we're talking about here?

Overclocked? 🤷‍♂️

How long have you been playing, and where?

Netrek, in the early 1990s (player roster from 1992). Originally just "Roger", for the never-not-funny "Roger that message" response in chat, the "borg" got added when I figured out how to crack the client and cheat like a speedsofter slightly enhance my game experience. Three decades later, it seems to have stuck.

Lloyd could have raised a child to adulthood in the time it's taken to finish his comic book.

Big Dom energy.

And I swear by sweatbands. Buy two or three cheapies, and swap them each game to give them a chance to dry out a bit. But ultimately, fans are the only thing I've found that are guaranteed to work on a humid day when standing still after exertion.

But it's got an "immer barrel". I guess that's what jumped the power from <0.5J to >0.9J 🙄

Well, the usual derailing. The tl;dr is "Parcel Force 48", although people can and do send via other couriers, declared as "sporting goods" or similar, insured for the real value. If you do that, package it very well so that they can't damage it, and then it just becomes a question of whether they lose it or not, in which case they won't have any evidence that it was a no-no item.

Comes September, comes the sell-outs. Why do they always imagine that there will be people gagging to buy a big, random collection of things-and-stuff just as the weather is turning?

Confirmed, I've tried many other potions, including CatCrap, and Revision wipes come out way ahead. They're actually quite expensive when bought in small numbers, but can sometimes be found in bulk buys that will last for years, given that you can reseal the wipes and use them for several game days. Double confirmed, even with dual pane lenses and Revision wipes, I sometimes need to turn on a fan. ExFog, a clone, or DIY something with a PC/3D printer cooler fan, some tubing, and your battery and switch of choice.

<Ackchyually> For retail customers "All firearms, other than low-powered air weapons sent within the UK (air rifles, air guns and air pistols), including imitations and antiques; paint-ball or toy guns; taser guns; components of firearms and all other items similar to, or resembling, the foregoing are prohibited" For contract customers, "A service for Section 1 and 2 firearms and low-powered airguns (as defined by the Firearms Act 1968, as amended), imitation firearms, de-activated guns, antique firearms, paintball guns, and inert projectiles (not prohibited by s5 of the Firearms Act 1968 as amended) is available to contract customers only, at the absolute discretion of Parcelforce Worldwide, and is subject to Parcelforce Worldwide providing prior written agreement in advance." </Ackchyually> Although in practice, Post Office counters seem happy to take RIFs, and to sell increased insurance on them beyond the £100 default. It may be that in this case the Post Office is acting as the contractual customer of Parcel Force, and that our contract is with Post Office Ltd. Or it may be that nobody really cares as long as they're getting paid. As @Jez_Armstrongnotes, "low powered air weapon" is fine with ParcelFarce, so that's what I'd describe it as.

That is a strong contender for the lowest-effort vs highest-expectations advert ever.

It's a pointless bike that does touring worse than a tourer and sportsbiking worse than a sportsbike and you're very silly for buying it and also gizza go, mister.

To deliberately inflict the maximum amount of pain?

I imagine the problem is finding a buyer, given how many sites prohibit these and also the baby Jesus hates them.