Rogerborg
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Mrs Borg had some issues with blowtorching the table. Destroy like squash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi5E_1jNhpo Email sent, let's see if they actually make with a replacement.
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422 words invented by Shakespeare: https://www.litcharts.com/blog/shakespeare/words-shakespeare-invented/ Including "pedant".
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Yup, they've confirmed. So: angle grinder, or blowtorch? I'll initially be destroying the internals and filing the branding off - I expect that their concern is with broken units being sold on and harming their brand. It'd be nice to be able to run the carcass as a bijou silencer or extender though.
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There is no age limit on Section 37 defences. Purchasers must be 18+, and the UKARA scheme is open to people 18+, but UKARA is only one way of demonstrating the defence. This matters because (IMO) the primary risk to airsofters isn't VCRA S36, it's the Firearms Act 1968 S19 possession in public offence - VCRA isn't generally going to be an issue unless your IF/RIF comes to the attention of the State, and that's only likely to happen in public, at which point you're looking at an S19. S19 requires a "reasonable excuse (the proof whereof lies on [us])" - i.e. that you're on your way to or from an airsoft skirmish, the same as you'd argue as a S37 defence. And again, there's no minimum age limit to that reasonable excuse. If there were, OP would already be a bare gangsta just for travelling to or from site.
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Funner fact: bastarding Amazon was stripping the video link out of my messages, and Acetech wasn't making that clear, they were just asking for another video. I've since sent them a direct email with a link to that video, and got this rather peculiar reply: That's... peculiar. I've asked them to confirm that they really want me to destroy it, and that there's no misunderstanding here. Also: "squash" a lithium battery, nice try.
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Video provided on Thursday, no contact since. At this point they've just wasted more of my time. I've followed up again, more out of interest about what the story will be now. (Fun fact: that was recorded in landscape mode, the file is in landscape mode, but YouTube has decided that it should be portrait, presumably because it was recorded on a phone)
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Shot with an HPA pistol. It's OK, it'll be "tourney locked".
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We're ideally looking for something like this:
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Another little BUMP, after reviewing the unit on Amazon, ACETECH asked me to contact them, then asked for a video of the issue. They're not even suggesting that I send it back, just that if they reckon it's a unit fault rather than user abuse (how would they tell?) that they'll send another one as it's within a year of purchase. Let's see if they make good on that. I'm highly sceptical, which means I can only be pleasantly surprised.
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Aww, bless, has be been trying to flog that since last June? To be fair, the externals and shell might be Well, but all the BB cares about at the bits that he's changed. No TDC though, so not "fully" upgraded, I'd argue. And I imagine it'll still be up by this June unless he puts a 2 at the start of that asking price.
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That's my recollection too. The original purchasers got absolutely rinsed. But that's no reason that someone in the market for one now should pay anywhere near current retail, unless you really reeeeeally have to have one right now. Looks like the next batch won't be shipped (from Austria) before May.
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Eh. Anything that's wrong with a pistol is likely to cost you less to replace the part than to post it back to Poland and wait 3 or 4 weeks in the hope that they might sort it.
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This is why I always keep a PornHub tab open so that I don't get caught reading about airsoft.
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Batteries, mags, foregrip, optic (not listed as included). None of which explains why it's £160 more than a brand new one. William, please understand that the retail price isn't what you paid for it, or the highest price that you can find. It's the lowest current price, which is indeed ~£210. And that's new. Used, you can knock a third off of that. That's if you actually want to sell it. If you don't, that's good too. Lots of folk list stuff that they don't really want to part with.
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The guy selling them out of a suitcase on the beach assured me...
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^^^ BLOCKED AND REPORTED.
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I'll round your 2p up to a whole 5p. Very well noted.
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Mrs B forgot to buy D cells for Miss Borg's robot arm kit, so I spent a happy hour diking[1] and soldering[2] a 7 cell nimh crane stock battery down to 5 cells /~6V, then crocodile-clipped it in to power it up.
Needless to say: BEST CHRISTMAS EVER.
[1] http://catb.org/jargon/html/D/dike.html
[2] 59.5 minutes swearing at Chinesium peasant solder, then 30 seconds getting it done with German master race solder.
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First time I've quit half way through the day.
No shout for chrono opening, a rambling, incomplete briefing that left newcomers baffled, "10 minute" breaks that dragged on for half an hour while the marshals yakked it up in their office, then to top it off, getting shouted at because the chief marshal had forgotten where he'd said the spawn points would be, and blamed the players.
Given that lunch would doubtless have dragged on for 90 minutes or more, I wasn't minded to hang around for more of the same.
Shame, as the actual play was fine, there just wasn't enough of it.
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I asked a question before in the brief and was told it was already covered instead of having it answered. Then it turns out they didn't cover it and both teams are stacked at a stairwell because no one knew who was up or down.
Was the chief marshal the young boy?
Problem with the Depot safe area is that it's too good so everyone sits down and wants to be "last out" to get maximum arse on chair time before the games. I too wish for less down time more pew time. No one needs more than 10 minutes between games in the safe zone.
Going to try Biohazard out this month hopefully. You maybe should give it a bash too.
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Sites need feedback like this though. On X day it was awful and as long as you can give constructive reasons then they should take note of this. Also by the same action, positive feedback should always be given where due.
If you weren't a level headed individual you could have come on here, really blown off about it and discoloured lots of other peoples opinions and given them really bad press.
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Great to hear that you've thought it through! One staircase per team sounds like a decent, simple solution. Something more complicated might be to put a riot shield in each staircase, which can only be used in that staircase. So once it's been used to push up, it gets left at the top, and can be grabbed by the other team and used to push back down again, rinse and repeat. Getting airsofters to listen though...
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How many staircases? Got plans to stop them getting choked? I ask because it can become an issue at the Depot even with 5 staircases in play over 2 floors. It only takes a couple of defenders per staircase to lock them down pretty effectively.
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Eh, I just LARP this stuff online based on reading statute and case law for giggles, I don't even do it as a part of my day job any more. My understanding is that absent eliciting information about members of armed forces, police officers or the intelligence services which is likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, privacy is a civil matter cobbled together from the Human Rights Act 1988 (which only applies to public bodies) and prior and subsequent common (judge-made) law which has been influenced by the HRA and ECHR. The cases that turn up are mostly cause célèbres rather than Joe Public. Despite many broken promises, privacy expectations between private individuals hasn't been codified in statute law yet. tl;dr version - you won't know if you have a case unless and until you get it before a court. One thing I would mention is that the distinction between public and private places is also blurred. Any place to which the public enjoy a general right of access can be considered public. In Scotchland in particular, with right to roam, this makes pretty much every outdoors airsoft site a public place, in which you should have no expectation of privacy.
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Now your channel is just like everyone else's.
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Aaand I've just unsubbed from the otherwise excellent Bad Influence Airsoft because he posted a clickbait CHEETAR video. You don't need to adduce statistical evidence that showcasing being a Dark Knight Punishertm normalises and promotes that behaviour in others.
