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Status Updates posted by Rogerborg
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Sites that run entirely on Facebook, and only post their events to a "players" subgroup that you have to find, then apply to join.
Are they trying to fail?
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Looks like I'm actually going to be able to play indoors on Sunday before Greet Leader Nicola shuts Scotchland down again.
I'm as giddy as a schoolgirl on her third Roofie Colada!
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@Steveocee Seriously ??/ would you give Wee Jimmy Krankie a “seeing to”??? 🥺
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I've given up waiting for the Depot to re-open (concern intensifies), and booked in for Biohazard in Stevenston next Sunday.
Oops, just a week to lose the lockdown lard. I guess I'll cycle to buy the beer, butter and beef today.
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Luke at Negative has really outdone himself on the self-sacrifice with this one:
I can 100% fap to the honesty here.
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Thing is, many guns come with metal-racked Pistons out of the box now. Specna Edge and the newer CYMA AKs spring to mind (I have both). How many guns will end up shitting themselves (completely) because the user is unaware of what's going on inside their gun? Who knows... but I suppose it keeps Airsoft techs gainfully employed.
My ICS guns came with plastic-racked pistons though, which is handy.
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Yup, my Ares guns came with steel rack pistons, my honey badger got the gearbox rebuilt and it runs smooth, the 009 (which I sold) completely destroyed the gear set when it stripped.
I get the point of having the last 2/3 teeth towards the piston head made of metal, after all they're the ones who have to bear the most pressure (when the spring gets cocked), but makes no sense to have the full rack being of metal..
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some interesting points he makes, for example about hop overheating on auto. i do wonder how much of an effect compression heating has on that as well given hpa's tend to take a bit longer to "warm up" given they're running pre-pressurised gas.
polymer pistons are fine if it's good polymer (insert rant about the quality of airsoft plastics), and the whole sacrificial part is a valid concept, in general i tend to buy steel racks but i won't replace a polymer piston if it's in good condition.
reminds me of my rc days where polymer gears are pretty common, even on the 1/5 scale stuff, i had one that ran for years although ironically almost every other component of the drive system failed. that was good short-strand carbon reinforced though (handy side benefit the carbon acted as lubricant as it wears).
but he's spot on about maintaining, it's why i like to encourage people to get into their own teching, you can save a lot of money time and headache if you're able to keep on top of maintaining your own stuff.
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Finally cracked and went to book an outdoor site and it completely sold out while I was booking it.
That Media section video of lads just shooting each other in an abandoned building is looking like a viable option at this point. 😭
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Jesus wept, looks like no indoor airsoft in Scotland until the middle of September now.
Although if we're very good, wear our muzzles religiously, and stop dying, we might - might - be allowed to play by the end of August.
Everyone got the impression that "not before 31st July" meant "on the 31st of July", I have no idea why.
Biohazard has already taken bookings for tomorrow, let's see if they cancel now.
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And that's everything back together except for the selector plate / cut off lever spring, nice and carefully, finger on it to stop it springing away, one side on, the other side o-
PIIIIING. Right into the Pile of Perpetual Ignorance in the corner of the kitchen.
Well, that's the last we're seeing of that. Another £3.50 on a spring set kit - I feel like I've been here before. 🙄
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Thin flat blade precision screwdriver or scalpel blade
is what I use, to slightly compress & align into place
(or when removing it)
covering the little fucker in case it tries it on
but yeah that bastid is the one that often gets away
some selector plates you can just jiggle on without lifting/removing the spring/col & others you can't without risk of breaking the selector
so you think I'll just remove that - oh shit wtf did that go...
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Pro-tip: when chronoing by shooting into a plastic bucket full of water, ensure that there's enough water in it to prevent the BBs from blowing a hole right through the bottom of it, otherwise you'll shortly find that there's no water in it at all.
Any pro-tips for repairing plastic buckets? 🙄
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Well, I can't avoid it any longer: that's all the airsoft gear going up from the garage to long term storage in the loft.
I'll probably keep dropping by here though as we'll need some distraction from the constant doom about the
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Starting to wish all the money I spent on airsoft gear was on a better graphics card now.
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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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Currently tea-dying a shirt that's not quite the right shade of beige. I suffer for my art.
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^^^
Morrisons You Can't Afford Any Better teabags. 40 out of a box of 80, an hour steeping, soaked overnight, washed, came out pretty well. Changed "fawn" to more like "camel", if not full "coyote".
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How do these things ever work?
Trying to restore the air-seal on my MP5K, we're talking tiny fractions of a mm in barrel alignment between "won't feed" and ""dribbles out".
Never, ever replace the stock parts in your gnu. Ever.
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Ironically from going too hot it's now weak tea. Those MP5K hop units are cray cray, they don't seem to want to match the profile of any hop rubber that I've tried, and I'm not even sure where the original has gone.
Well, after hours of fiddling it's working fine in the garage now. What could possibly go wrong on the way to chrono.
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Wow, check out the weather on Saturday!
I bet Sunday's going to be just aweso-
GOD DAMMIT!
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Nuprol should bow to public opinion (and spelling) and rename themselves as Nurpol.
Change my mind.
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Sonuva gorram beach. My MP5K with a 249mm ZCI barrel - but this time with the PTFE tape removed and some actual hop applied - chronoed at 348, 346... 352.
Back in the bag it went and out came the backup G36C.
Only after getting home and jumping on AK2M4 did I have a "... wait a second..." moment and remembered that I'd already bought a 229mm ZCI, which is in the backup-backup M4 which was in the bag keeping the G36 company. Could have had that swapped in in a few minutes.
Sort yourself out, Rog.
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Tracer's on the pistol, this is just a suppressor. It's got spring-and-foam internals, which were influencing the BB flight (as in, it was all over the place). Being an honest sort, I took the suppressor off and went and got it re-chroned, and it came out just barely over. But over is over. I mean, for that particular chrono, which is a rant for another thread.
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Dem feels when just for once you're totally prepped and ready for a weekender event by Tuesday... then they postpone it for 6 weeks. 😭
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Mmm, I do sympathise with the site owner, he's put loads of work in and arranged for extra facilities for the weekend, and a bunch of folk (I infer both players and marshals) have booked up front then told him with under a week to go that they won't be showing up, citing sickness (must be pretty bad if you know that far ahead that you won't make it) but also "holidays and weddings". How could that have come as a surprise?
Bad news for everyone, although the way it's being handled is pretty amateurish. No automatic refunds, he's assuming that we'll either want to roll the booking forward or will attend a regular skirmish day on Saturday and get credited then. Yeah... but no. That's the thing about running a big weekend mislim, the extra numbers come from people who wouldn't normally have made the trip.
It's only £10, but having to ask for it back in the first place should be unnecessary, and having done so, if it doesn't show up in the next day or so, then I'll just be opening a PayPal dispute and that's the last that site will ever see of me. And I get the money back either way.
Why is it so hard for people to just do the right thing, for the right reasons, and for their own benefit?
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Urgh, sites run solely from a Facebook page that don't tell you exactly where they are, how to get there, the availability of parking, game days, hours, prices, site rules, or pretty much anything that you'd want to know before deciding to make the journey there.
I know, "Just message us, mate", but why not document it once rather than dozens of times?