Rogerborg

£150 new now, so you're swapping 3 mags for a warranty. Mind you, given the number of pre-abused "new" gnus that PatrolBase apparently send out, maybe that isn't a crazy trade.

Bit of both. Voltage will determine how fast the motor wants to spin with no load. Current will limit how fast it can spin under load. And I agree that C is king, airsoft batteries tend to come in very wimpy compared to RC equivalents. One of the few actually interesting things I've seen on a Facebook group was a bloke testing airsoft batteries against RC for internal cell resistance and in every case, the airsoft cells were worse, even fresh out of the box.

Huh, that is a fair point, Chinese migrant workers got blamed for importing the coofs to Italy back in 2020.

Well, about 80% of a respray. Also, it's one of those toys where you'd want to have some sort of warranty support for if[*] the gears grenade. [*] When.

Thanks for the followup, sounds like you're on a roll with fixing stuff.

Thanks for the followup, it's good to hear that you got it solved. I don't like Omega nubs for this reason, they seem quite prone to it.

My Canadian girlfriend agrees. This isn't Facebook: you're not going to fool anyone, or fool us that you're fooling yourself. All[*] airsoft toys are cheap Chinese made tat with various degrees of markup and marketing. You're selling them, so you'll lie about them in order to sell them. You can go ahead and lie about how much you're lying, but... this isn't Facebook. [*] With the exception of Tokyo Marui, but you're not trying or lying to sell us Tokyo Marui.

Opinions vary on how safe they actually are, but better than nothing. I charge mine in a deep ceramic pie dish. If you seen any sign of damage or puffing, I'd replace them.

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I do enjoy this bloke asking for fast food that actually looks like the advert, although I wonder if trying it in Lewisham McD's would get you a face-full of bleach. Anyway, good news, it looks like meat substitutes aren't financially sustainable. Bring me my Soylent Borger!

I'd assumed the Indian Motorcycles model of pulling it out of a crate from Chyna, slapping a "Made In Murca" sticker on it, and putting another 0 on the price. But I didn't want to assert it, and well... Italian engineering.

I've honestly forgotten what it's about, I'm just enjoying the <ackchyually> handbag fight.

It helps when you're magdumping AKs straight up in the air, en masse, which the Austere Religious Scholars apparently use for anti-air defence. Not even trying to aim or lead, just putting as much lead in the air as possible and letting aircraft fly through it. The camera footage in the documentary Apache Warrior confirms how hairy it can get when everybody and their mum has an AK and ammo is cheap and plentiful.

If I wear my hi-vis, there's a fair chance that I might be brought tea and biscuits instead of being arrested.

That... uh... may not be the flex you think it is.

Because he's a narcissistic sociopath. Now round we go, pass Go, and collect 200 subs.

If it gets your PP hard while slinging the same BBs as everyone else, it's the right toy for you. Life's too short for regretting purchases that you didn't make. The one thing I'd mention is that sooner or later you're likely to run into some muppet of a marshal who declares "That's a DMR, mate, you can't use that in CQB, mate, it's way too hot, mate".

Don't be surprised if he's not there on the day, and his marshal team have very different ideas.

Great to hea- Nope, I'm done with giving him the benefit of the X. He's an utter throbber who documents his throbbing. He doesn't deserve any assumption of innocence at this point. If he thinks he can monetise it, he'll do it.

Mmm, I can see Range Officer Walt getting a mushroom-chubby on for beeping you in the ear.

Eh, we're talking minutes. It's a minor annoyance that it doesn't have a 1.5A settings, but 1A will get the job done. And you can charge 1500ish mAh at 2A if you're in a hurry, we're talking margin-of-error levels of risk and degradation. Not functionality that you're likely going to use though. That one always balance charges, and will charge to storage levels, and that's really all you need - I don't even bother with storage charges. It'll be fine for airsoft, if I were buying from new, knowing what I know now, I'd be happy going for it. Oh, one consideration is that it's got an XT-60 or XT-30 connector, so you'll need a converter to the more typical mini-Tamiya (yuk) or Deans used in airsoft. You can wire your airsoft gear to XT, it's just that few people do it.

The SkyRC S65 is a popular choice, but it's actually overkill for airsoft batteries. That M4AC looks fine. Nice simple interface (read the manual though regarding voltage!). I'd like a bit more granularity in the charging current, but unless you're in a real hurry, 1A is going to be OK for most airsoft batteries, and 2A for big ones. [EDIT] Lozart is right that if you're running something really meaty then you might want more than 2.5A, but I never run batteries that big, and in any case, it's not like you're going to need to charge them more than once a week or fortnight anyway, so it wouldn't put me off. I'd always err on the side of under-amping during charging rather than trying to rush it.

I'm vaguely interested, but agree with the travelling-to-shooting time equation not working out, nor the money-for-accuracy that I imagine you'd end up sinking into it. Interesting that the rules require GBBs, I was thinking that a NBB or even (looks around guiltily) an AEP might perform better under those specific close-range circumstances. I guess they're trying to keep it as realistic as possible.

Yup. They're cheap because they make a gojillion of them. My CM.516 starter-M4 has a really nasty toytown plastic body, but the internals are cockroach tough, and it's always in the bag as a last-resort backup. Sure, just about every part is crying out to be upgraded, but every part works, and it puts BBs downrange just fine.