Rogerborg

Every penny that we spend on airsoft toys is ultimately wasted. However, if you can squeeze some fun out of them, you can recoup that. My personal experience from r, s and flat hops is that they're things that you do to enjoy the process of getting back to the stock performance, not because they turn your toy into a laser. A Maple Leaf macaron does the same job (putting more material inside the barrel window) without butchering your hop unit, arm, and nub. If you do want to double down on your purchase, then you've got a baseline energy level with your (sensible) BB mass. If that's consistent, then you could throw in a heavier spring and start chasing 1J again.

There's a bright orange post-it note stuck on the inside of my front door saying: "EYE-PRO, BATTERIES, WATER". Saved the day several times.

Agreed, there are loads of YouTube videos on how to do it for various guns. Your hop unit will be under the dust cover. What they don't generally show is the trajectory. Credit to Novritsch, he actually explains and shows that here. What I do is to over hop, to ensure that I have at least enough hop applied, then dial it back slowly until the BB just lifts towards the end of its flight. It helps to have someone standing off to the side to observe your trajectory.

Sad times. I have a stack of tired midcaps looking to meet new springs, but can't find any. It's not the cost, it's that I have a principled objection to disposing of anything that could be repaired. If anyone does find a source, please sing out.

That's my issue with them as well. TAG rounds are so far beyond anything else that we use that I'm baffled as to how a properly informed insurer would indemnify a site. Given the masses, muzzle velocities and ranges claimed, they're barely within UK air-gun power levels, which is a particular issue in Scotland. Something something pyrotechnic something, but there are also solid rounds, right? The bangs are earball-hurty even outdoors, and given the ranges and time to target, any claims of precision have to be qualified with "at the time when you launch, not when it lands". They were fun when I saw and heard them used (at a distance) at a filmsim. But they were used only by the organisers, and essentially non-competitively for theatrical effect. Being aimed at people by J. Random Airsofter, that's another thing altogether. We've seen the injuries these thing can cause, right? Smashed eyepro, and significant tissue damage. They seem like something which will only be allowed until its banned, and it'll be a safety rule written in some poor sod's blood.

Of course, that's exactly what someone who was in the SAS would say. 🤔 Who?

QFT. Of course, on the internet, anyone can LARP as a psychopath. I'm guessing that our local gangsta kid had no dad, or too many temporary ones. Which I suspect is also the extent of the gangsta kid's rufty-tufty experience. Me, I keep it old school, street style. Does he actually add any value here? I've had him blocked for as long as I can recall. Which is of course only about 10 minutes given my advanced years.

Almost anything will take almost anything. Some exceptions are early G&G ETU models which could give low battery issues when running 7.4V lipos, and the risk of getting either double shots on semi, or premature engagement on auto, running 11.1V. There's nothing special about lithium vs nimh though, an electron is an electron, and you don't need a "lipo ready" gun, or a mosfet, or any particular gun to run 7.4V lithiums.

"Upgraded" to a monkey-metal basic-bitch dial hop not as good as the plastic unit that you'll find in any Specna. I shudder to think what sort of day-glo orange will be found under that Desert Diarrhoea rattlecan paintjob. Guilty. Transport him to the Colonies, and his children, and their children too.

Marmite has been (seriously) suggested as the solution to conflict in the Middle East. They say it's to address a zinc deficiency, but clearly the real result would be to unite the entire region in fully justified loathing of the foul Satanic sludge.

That. Only psychopaths actually go around prepped to flip-out-and-fite-IRL at a moment's notice. Most "fights" are over before half of the participants know that they've even started. Not that I want to see this at any airsoft site, ever, but the only real interest I have in these handbaggings is how they're resolved. Back in the day, etc, etc, it would have been sorry-mate-lost-the-rag, handshakes all round, and move on - at least the first time. Now, especially when caught on camera which makes everybody look bad (witness the excoriation of all three participants here) it's harder to forgive and forget.

Ah, right, you have chosen wisely. I've gone mesh outdoors now, it's so liberating not to have the worry about fogging.

Nice, what's the hole size on that mesh?

It was still a better love story than Twilight.

Yes, but you get 2 more mags, which you'll doubtless need since it's shooting nearly as weakly as a Tokyo Marui.

Always best to report these directly to @Jedi_Masteror the other mods to get the account nuked from orbit.

Anything except those ASG non-devil blasters. It's always hard to be sure, but I've seen an incident of a rental getting fragged in the eyes through a mesh mask, and given that the site handed out 0.2g Blasters and had repeated reports of it happening that day, it's a reasonable assumption. They seem to get a bad batch every so often, but "it's not all of them" is cold comfort to the targets. PatrolBase is fine. Outdoors I use bios, Valken 0.25g, 0.28g and 0.32g, and for heavier stuff, Geoffs or Longbow. Indoors, BAW Bag (yes) 0.2g tracers, and I have some ASG Devil 0.25g Blasters that seem OK.

Full disclosure, I made that mistake too, having bought a CYMA with a nimh battery, then gone deeper down that hole before climbing out. It's not a disaster, some folk still swear by them for their non-exploding properties. And yes, lithium charges differently from nimh, so it's likely you'll need a different charger unless you current one has a lithium mode. Any remotely decent charger will also balance-charge lithium batteries to keep the cells at the same voltage. We're currently liking the SkyRC S65 charger.

Would recommend the series as a whole, there's some pretty decent actual science fiction in there, and a few of them are genuine short features. Being an anthology series means that if you hate one episode, you'll probably love the next one, and you don't have to wait long for it. The quality of animation in some episodes comes very very close to clambering out of the Uncanny Valley. You can almost forgot that you're watching high tech cartoons.

The other possibility is just that the magazine springs aren't strong enough to shove the BBs up quickly enough, and/or are very slightly misaligned with respect to the hop and magwell. Have you tried other mags? Ex-Workmate Eddy's CM16, while a very decent toy, is a little fussy about mags.

True, that's the account that's been spotted. He's doubtless running others as well.

It helps though, and is a positive in itself. I got a few lockups on my JG G36 with the stock meh motor and V3 2-piece trigger. Both the minor trigger-trolly issue, and also a proper fuse-popper when the spring ended up almost fully compressed and the stock motor stalled out and wouldn't pull it any further. After switching to a Big Dragon M140, I never had another.

I'm in two minds about whether to use their contact form to flag this up. He'll just create a fresh new account, and at least that one has negative feedback on it to warn his victims. https://www.airsoft-hub.com/user/Chris001

Is there a particular reason that you went with NIMH? I mean, they work, but it's old technology. It's also surprisingly tricky for chargers to deal with since they don't know what voltage they're charging to, they have to look for the battery resistance to spike / the current to drop off. I know that lithium cells can get a little explodey, but the performance advantages outweigh that for me.