Rogerborg

Which is why they don't respond to emails, they're always on the phone. I mean, this is the right advice for any customer, but it's a poor way of dealing with every customer.

If a lithium battery or cell has dropped below the voltage where a smart charger will touch it, I've recovered some using a few seconds of parallel connection to a dumb source of the appropriate voltage (i.e. about 4.2V per cell). I don't mean leave it like this, just do it for long enough to nudge its voltage up, even very temporarily, to where the charger will kick in. If it's gubbed anyway you've got nothing to lose* by trying it. I've recovered 18650s that had dropped below 1V this way. You won't get the full capacity back, but any re-use is better than re-cycling. * If done in an Explosion Containment Pie Dish.

Genuinely great to hear that you've got a site that knows what they're doing. DMRs in particular are super-easy to exploit. I'd also love to find a revolver that's: 1) Gas not CO2 2) Safely reloadable in-game. 3) Effective out to 20m (0.8J+ with some kind of consistent hop) I'm currently running a HG HFC-132 which satisfies 1 and 2 as you can just pop a BB in the front of each shell and rotate the cylinder to seat them. However, out of the box it shot a disappointing and inconsistent 0.3 - 0.5J with either 0.2g or 0.25g on ASG ULTRAIR green gas at 15C. I saw over 0.6J after thoroughly lubing the o-rings and nozzle, but it's completely unhopped (despite what some sellers claim). Fine for super-CQB killhouses, but nothing beyond that.

Ahoy and welcome back. Are your local sites OK with 8mm? Do they even know what it is? I'd check about Dan Wessons as a few sites don't like them due to the ease of swapping shells after chrono. Nothing that you can't do with most other guns, but sites ban what they catch.

They're not, I use small (e.g. 5mmx2.5m) neodymium magnets to stick contacts together.

It do be true though.

Oh, ahoy and welcome and all that. You've very nearly got a good slap-fight going here about hop unit springs, that's a good start.

Yarp. Closer and closer to my "Ban us all" solution, I see. <excellent.gif>

This is something I've never heard claimed before. I'm not saying that it's wrong, but If there's more than a tiny fraction of a mm of movement then that's begging for feeding or air-seal issues as you change the nozzle-to-bucking distance. Also, plenty of us replace the stock spring in an M4 with o-rings specifically to squish everything together more tightly. My Specna EDGE is quite fussy, and its mags have different dimensions to most of my other random collection of M4/M16/STANAG mags. In particular, the distance from the front to the feed tube is a full 1mm larger than (e.g.) my short VN style mags. Having measured it, I knew that I needed to shim the front of the VN mags with the loop (fabric) side of some self-adhesive velcro tape, which has helped the feeding. But wait, there's more. Even the BB-stopper inside the magazine feed is different. The VN mag stopper goes further into the feed than the Specna one does, and there's a distinct flat section that protrudes into the feed, thusly. This can lead to the mag not wanting to insert at all as the hop unit feed tube hangs up on top of the magazine stopper, and needs a good wiggle to get it to actually insert. To ameliorate that, I very carefully filed and sanded the rear of the hop unit feed tube to angle it more. This helps it to slide into the magazine and push the stopper out of the way. The tl;dr version is: don't guess, observe and measure. Calipers and a magnifying glass or jeweller's loupe are better than speculation.

Information, or assumption? Again, a genuine question as I've had no trouble hopping 0.28g at ~1.1J in any season in the UK with 50, 60 or 70.

One reason that I empty my mags before bagging them is that it's the only way I'll get the BBs back in the right bags or bottles.

I'd (genuinely) love to see a controlled test of various bucking in the same gun, on the same range, on the same day. I've seen tests of flat versus R versus S, but not of Maple Leaf 50 vs 60 vs 70 versus Prommy versus whatever else is being pitched as the bestestest bucking ever by Skylar on Reddit this week.

Wow, when did CYMA M.04X get so expensive? That gun, at that price point, I'd be looking for specific reasons not to get the Specna SA-J09 https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/specna-arms-sa-j09-edge-tm-ak-105-aeg-w-gate-aster-tm-mosfet Full pot metal, quick change spring, and a GATE ASTER for £200 is pretty tempting. Orion gearbox is usually a yellow flag, but should be fine in chonky-boi V3 form.

I like to get some small magnets into the mix too.

Outcome unclear: did you died? ... and yet ... Which is a huge failure of foresight, given that people are gunning out of them, or windows will be open. Granted, there are plenty of other "shoulds" in airsoft that can result in injury if not followed, like removing eyepro in game, or lobbing BFGs at head height - which I've been on the receiving end of. What makes TAGs special are that they're always carrying much, much more energy than anything else being shot, and that once you've pulled the trigger, there's plenty of time for things to change at your intended point of impact. I'd nope out of any event that allows them.

It wasn't as bad as it looks from that, but it knocked the lens clean out of his goggles. This was from a Murcan milsim where he was roof gunning from a vehicle that could only be taken out with TAG rounds. They were meant to be launched near it, not at it, but airsofters gonna airsoft.

Notionally it's just yeeting TAG rounds like any other toob. The reason I bring it up is that the video specifically talks about using sights to put a round on target, i.e. shooting as flat as possible, which is exactly what caused the injury shown. InB4 "nobody should": but they do. And "nobody would": but Licking Cumstain. Projectiles with ~16J of energy have no business being used on an airsoft site where people are signing up for ~2J impacts.

Luke 5:19

And there was much rejoicing.

Hi, we have a specific section in the classifieds for guns wanted: https://airsoft-forums.uk/classifieds/category/17-guns-wanted/ Best of luck.

I do think it's helpful of Specna to have named their gearbox, so that we can know what to avoid.

Armed with the knowledge that ABS or PLA only masses about 0.2g, and 5.95mm of steel is about 0.86g, where would your conscience draw the line?

Sadly, he only needs to fool one victim before each ban to make it worthwhile. My solution of banning all users permanently isn't looking so radical now, is it?