Skara
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I like the concept, but from what I've seen the material is suuuuuuuper flimsy 😮 you madman
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New helikon Competition pouches arrived.
Holy shit batman the retention is fucking unreal 😮
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Grippy liner, similar to the one in WAS pouches. I expect it to wear out eventually, but the pouches still have two more retention "systems" in form of traditional bungee top and an adjustable shock cord going through the middle section of the pouch.
All in all, for €18 per pouch, they are really, really well made!!
I also got two pistol pouches but can't test them because I forgot my pistol mags at home -.- but they're basically the same thing, without the top bungee, scaled down.
I'll try and get sum pics
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Yep they are standalone pouches
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I swapped motors with my 933. ZCI motor in the 933 sounds perfectly fine although it wants to sit 1/1.5mm lower than the SHS. SHS in the PDW (just the gearbox with ICS pistol grip) sounds shit, no matter how high/low I set it. Spinning gears by hand you can definitely hear them grinding, I also had doubts about the spur/idler not being flat because when I had the box shimmed spur first, at one point it was getting stuck with the bevel. Now it spins fine though (read scratching but not binding). So the motor is ruled out, the gears might be part of the issue and I can still replace them with ZCI advanced (my tech has some in stock, a lot more expensive than buying online though). The major suspect remains the grip then. Unfortunately, other than the ICS mentioned (which is also wonky as heck) I don't have any spare. I was thinking of getting a couple of PTS EPGs for my M4s sometime soon (tm) so I could give a specna A2 a go. Can't be arsed right now but I might try tomorrow.
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New bushings in, tried spur first and it's dumping a moulinex into a bucket of nails and a spanner levels of scratchy. Tried bevel to pinion, still scratchy but without the spanner. Also tried with the stock motor, still the same. Good thing about these Modify bushings is that they have a little ridge protruding into the gearbox so I didn't use too many shims. At this point it's pretty clear, I got a lemon somewhere. I ran the thing for a couple of minutes to try and scratch the gears, the shell or anything else and locate the source. Gears are spotless, the shell has just a tiny bit of scratching under the spur (fixed by swapping a 0.15 shim with a 0.2). Bevel teeth seems fine, pinion seems fine (I might try and swap it for a SHS one but they look identical). With the motor inserted and the height somewhat adjusted there is just a tiny bit of play on the bevel, with the shell closed and tightened each gear has about 0.1mm of play which looks bang on to me. There is no grease that may conceal scratches. I'm giving a SHS HT a go, just to eliminate the motor as a cause. I'm legit clueless, anyone got an idea? @Sitting Duck
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Three of these https://emperionstore.com/competition-rapide-carbine-pouch-multicam-helikon-tex.html Two of these https://emperionstore.com/competition-rapid-pistol-pouch-multicam-helikon-tex.html To add to my new rig and to replace the Condor cheapo pistol mag pouches on me FRV belt. And a Maple Leaf I-Key because you can't have too many.
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Bushings profile isn't the issue. It's how they went in and the fact that they don't spin (well one does but still, 1/6 is not good enough lol). I'll pick up some decent ones this Saturday. In the meantime I started dicking around with various parts and decided to try a different pistol grip. Swapped the stock one for an old ICS grip I had and it made a world of difference! The stock grip, as mentioned above, makes the motor sit way too high despite having removed the adjustment screw. The "new" grip, on the contrary, almost completely removed the pinion to bevel scratching, although now it doesn't sit flush but is slightly canted to the side and the motor gets warm quickly. There is still some gear scratching noise but that will eventually go away as soon as I replace the bearings.
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Texture on the receiver sides, can't remember which one has them though
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Forgot to update this thread. In the end I went for a ZCI 22tpa motor, quite slow but the semi cycle time on a 11.1 is good. The gearbox shell, though is utter shit, or the motor is, or the grip, I can't figure it out -.- I can't properly shim it, I did the good ol' spur first but the bevel wants to sit really high. Tried bevel to pinion, the bevel now has zero shims on top yet it appears to be too tight, moreover the ZCI motor is really pushing against the bevel even with the grip adjustment screw completely removed. I thought it was the gearbox shell being a bit shit, so I bought an 8mm one but the bearings I got (SHS) must've been a friday night job and they don't spin -.- stayed up until 2 AM last night to try and figure out what was going on and I'm really pissed. I'll see if I can pick up a set of decent bushings later today and try again -.-
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So, I got a new gearbox shell for my pdw but it's an utter cunt to shim (Also I think I got a bad set of SHS bearings but they'll have to do since I don't have any spares).
I'm gonna try the bevel to pinion method, spur first worked with every single AEG I've worked on apart from this little piece of shit.
Fuck me
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Can't find decent m4 mag pouches
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I've just been using cheapo condor open top (the ones with the bungee cord retention) on my belt setup. Outdoor in pissing it down rain, brambles, mud, all sorts and have been working fine for me the past few years. That's including me swapping them out with a budget taiwangun pistol mag pouch for my VSR mags pretty much every game. Not really something that would fit the 'look' though I imagine 😄
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Thanks for the suggestions
I have been using those condor cheapo ones for ages and they performed relatively well, but I am slowly replacing all the clone pouches with the real deal (getting rid of those too).
KYWIs are impossible to find.
In the meantime, I have found Helikon competition pouches and Templars TACO clones, both reasonably priced. I have abandoned the quest for closed top pouches because it's either TMC or Crye with not much choice in between -.-
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My ultra heretic 5.56 AK flash mags arrived. I'm seriously impressed with the quality, they're Cymas and feel really sturdy. Sure as hell better than the 5.45 flash mag I already have. In the meantime, I ordered 2 SHS QD bearing spring guides for my Specnas, a new 8mm QC gearbox for my KA PDW and another bag of 0.28s.
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More and more technical issues, I am definitely cursed. So the King Arms PDW does not like ZCI hop units, couldn't feed a single round. The specna 933 acted funny all day, sounded shit in full auto (as if it was going to jam) so I stuck to semi. Nonetheless I had fun today, the lack of confidence among team members is showing (we have mostly new/inexperienced people now) and we need to sort that out asap. Next Sunday, PDW time (AK if I feel like it and the new high caps actually feed). Meanwhile I need to stock 60° hop rubbers as 50s appear to be too soft for my 933.
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Gud. I'm considering moving from the warfet to either a titan or a Perun on my ak, just to eliminate the semi lockup and have more battery space available for spicy 11.1s
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Just committed a war crime, bought a set of 5.56 ak magazines for my 74u. Along with some gas cans (duster, green, red) and a bunch of bags of BLS 0.28s.
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insane ROF but you lose the last round hold open.
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It's cheap, it's lightweight, works well, has good iron sights, takes cheap glock magazines, there's a whole host of cosmetic and performance upgrades available. What more can you ask? I say AA got it extremely right from the start. But now they need to hurry the fuck up and release the goddamn M-Lok handguard.
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You need some short stroke buffers methinks
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Yo we need a badge for all the active users who end up in Macks
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I love how there is absolutely zero trace of mp5 high caps and ak74 flash mags in italy -.-
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Okay the AW extendo is shit. It went through a whopping 10 bbs before running out of gas. Meanwhile them WE mags ran flawlessly even in sub zero temperatures. Pumping out all 23+ rounds without any sign of cooldown.
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Because it never gets below 0 here and usually it creeps up to 9/10 on a sunny day in this period, so black gas isn't really needed. Also yeah, need to pack a fleece because it's gonna be brutal, that part of the field is also wet af all year round
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Same, I didn't buy them at once, but one/two every order so now I have a nice stock of parts. Anyway, tomorrow I'll be taking the SMG with me and it's gonna be a cold temperature test, forecast says -8° at 8 am on the field, rising to -2° by noon. I honestly expect malfunctions and poor efficiency on the extendo but good performance on the WE mags, I'll be running nimrod green gas (nuprol 2.0), place your bet.
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It's a slippery slope tho. It made me buy about 12 maple leaf rubbers last year now the silicone ones have hit the market, I suspect I'll get another 12 soon -.-
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Let's be honest for a second. I don't get WE, they had the chance to make a cool GBB like a Tec-9 lookalike (so AAP style upper, correct magazine placement and most importantly, glock magazines instead of some proprietary shit)... They instead decided to clone the AAP but make it more complicated to use (hop adjustment, for example) at a price point that can't compete with the AAP (because it's a €85/90 pistol, I reckon the WE is gonna be at least 120/130)... why....
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I-Key, H-Plate, however you want to call them, they all do the same thing I used I-Keys because I had some in my box o' hops, if I had Hadron parts I would have used those instead By the way, WE has now released a, not surprisingly, really bad clone of the AAP, same upper but with a glock lower, while overcomplicating the overall design..
