Adolf Hamster

That's the core of my reservations. Now granted there are use cases, eg running a dmr where reduced piston slap is good and reduced rof is bad, where the airbrake can be of benefit. That said, i don't consider piston slap to be a particularly big issue at least from a noise perspective, if you truly care about silence then you might as well skip a few steps and jump straight to the logical end of such a quest which is a suppressed hpa. Yes please, we do indeed love sums here i don't doubt the concept should do something on paper, but wether or not that something is meaningful is an interesting question.

Its the potential for rebound, or settiling under pressure. And a varying aoe is exactly what you dont want

For a springer they have some logic to them, but i would have reservations about using them in an aeg given their intended function is to run counter to the needs of sector gear engagement.

Dont want it too tight though as you'll not be able to adjust motor height

so a viper chest rig, an m14, and a snow camo pattern inappropriate in all but the most Scottish of winters?

Glad to know i'm not the only one who can't not see caliber numbers when they appear.

We Makarov? No rail but some creativity could add one. Certainly it can be made accurate, at least as far as anything airsoft can be.

As an alternative to this for actually cleaning the barrel, I use a 5.56/.223 bore snake (also known as a pull through). Tight enough that it cleans the entire inner barrel in one pass and doesn't need loads of force to pull it through As long as it doesn't have any metal brushes/other components, dont want to be scratching the barrel/tearing at the hop unit. I did always keep a plastic rod i got with the mg42 in the kit bag with a few strips of cutup microfibre which is handy for when you forget to clean the barrel ahead of time.

i'm gonna offer the alternative solution: don't bring anything or in longer form, trying to work on a pew in the safe zone is at best going to be an exercise in frustration and at worst the easiest way to lose bits. do the work at home, get your gun in good order, and bring a spare (or two) if you can't accomplish it with a leatherman within a minute, it's probably a job worth waiting until you get home.

I do wonder that given his earlier (pre "going big") wasnt that bad that maybe its a case of wearing the mask long enough to become it? I remember him having more normal gameplay videos, the stuff where he was showing a lot of uncut footage of him being a hedge and occasionally someone would walk by him or he'd take a pot shot. Whilst it felt genuine, it would have been dreadfully boring to watch to someone who didnt play. Then ofc there's the video that gets picked up by the algorithm, a natural cheater encounter, ad revenue starts becoming a thing that exists in a meaningful way and it's a slow decline into having to seek out, then manufacturer drama to keep the clickbait machine fed. But then: Sounds like an equally plausible origin story.

Not that i'm taking his side, but one wonders if calling out his real name (assuming this to be information he hasn't willingly put out himself) isn't doxxing, or at least doxxing adjacent? As for the rest of his antics, well for me it boils down to this; Because wether he's as big an asshole as he plays on camera, or a saint playing the devil, is irrelevant when the issue is that the persona that gets presented to the world outside our hobby casts it in such a negative light. The last damn thing we need is pr like that because the absolute best case scenario is we get a flood of people joining in with the preconceived notion of that being an acceptable way to act. The worst is one can only imagine the fodder his videos would provide for those who can't stand guns (or gun adjacent activities) and would see them out of the hands of anyone who isn't an actor or a video game sprite.

Dont think so, iirc the company was bo dynamics, they made a promo video about it revolutionising airsoft then the whole thing went dark with the rumour mill churning out things like they'd been contracted for special forces training systems and werent allowed to sell them to the public. The whole thing was semi-mythical could well have been folk reading too much into intentionally vague marketing material.

Yeah the packaging isn't the easiest, the coil i made was vaguely m4 buffer tube dimensions but it would have left zero room for the electronic side of things. I have heard of a few folk having almost success over the years, and there's the semi-mythical bo dynamics system. Tbh mine was exactly the half-baked uni project that was never going to go anywhere.

Interesting idea. It does raise a few questions; -how does it fare with precocking? Intuitively the motor having to fire up with additional load might inferr even more benefits from a higher current supply at startup. -is this more space effecient than the same space used for a chunkier battery that's capable of a higher burst current? -wonder how the current crop of brushless motors handle it, possibly they have current limiting built in which might negate any benefit, although i suppose the key selling point for this is being a more cost effective alternative to acheive the same result. Many moons ago i did have a crack at the ol' using a big solenoid to pull the spring idea (idea being the trigger would be entirely mechanical), but mans isn't an electrical engineer so that went about as badly as you'd expect. That was using conventional capacitors though which were chunky, kinda makes me want to dust off the ol' emp generator.

if that's what top notch ai can bring to the table methinks humanity is safe for now......

have to agree, whilst i don't find filling from a bag too bad (using the hand cupped around the mag as a sort of funnel) it's basically a rite of passage to spill a bunch of rounds. op- once you're at the stage of buying your own gear a world of options await from autowinding box mags through to midcaps and an m12.

i definitely see it as a classic case of following the popularity. his early stuff wasn't too bad, somewhat genuine gameplay. of course he had a couple of early videos with genuine cheater encounters, those videos go viral, he starts seeing the ad money, so he starts focusing on the drama, but there isn't enough drama so he has to fake it, but faking it only works so far so he manufactures it instead. all the while he's being drawn into creating this tough guy persona, regardless of how he may really be as a person the harm that's done is now we have an influencer who's purveying a toxic attitude. and that's the problem, because if you're not actively an airsofter and you're watching his videos then you have no reference frame to know that this isn't how everyone in the hobby acts, and you're either going to be put off by the idea, or even worse you're going to engage with it and get into the hobby thinking that's an acceptable way to act. either way it's bad for our hobby. might be site specific, i've encountered tree folk a few times and it wasn't explicitly banned or called out when someone tried it, and tbf if it's allowed at the site then it can be pretty effective mostly because people don't expect to have to look in the trees.

1- true, although you get used to it. ironically a lot of the faff is simply getting to the gearbox in the first place and the m4 despite being a very common first gun is especially annoying to get to. 2- more complex yes, although more points of failure is debatable. the gearbox design isn't inherently unreliable, it's the fact they're built to a cost, and that's typically a low cost. and even then they're expected to fire thousands of rounds a day without breaking a sweat. 3- not sure cracking is a unique to v2 problem, unless we're generalising that to mean any tm derived gearbox in which case see point 2.

For a basic mosfet you're mostly going to gain elongated trigger contact life, ofc wether or not that has any meaningful impact compared to just replacing them when the time comes is up to you, usually the answer is no unless you have some weird trigger components that are a pain to source spares for. More advanced mosfets, well i tend to lean towards there not being much point until you get to precocking mosfets, active braking for example tends to cause more problems than it solves unless its used in conjunction with precocking, and i've never felt burst modes to be particularly useful. But precocking is where you start to get real meaningful performance gains (ie "trigger response") even with the simpler timed systems like the ab++ and the warfet. After that ofc its optical, and tbh, unless you really care that the first shot of semi after a burst of auto absolutely must be consistently precocked, or really want dat trigger sensitivity then you dont really need them.

it'd only be actual air if the mag had been completely emptied and left open to air before filling (eg first fill after a rebuild), otherwise by "air" whats really meant is the gaseous portion of the mags contents. that's exactly what happens. there is logic to venting the gaseous portion of a mags contents as its being filled, it keeps the pressure of the mag lower than the fill bottle hence ensuring it keeps flowing regardless of how full or empty the bottle is. however as you summise, it's pointless to vent from the bottom as that'll just dump liquid out, it's gotta vent from the top (which when filling is the fill valve). tm are the main manufacturer for using vented fill valves, although i have seen them elsewhere (eg airsoft innovations 40 mike and derivatives), idea being you fill until you get liquid spew from the valve. for non vented fill valves you can pulse when filling, but this risks overfilling (this is how i'd refill a lighter as it doesn't matter so much if there's no gas portion)

technically it isn't, especially when it's a large enough peice put practically yes. tbh it's one of those things that on it's own probably results in the square root of bugger all. but ounces make pounds, and lots of little improvements can end up being meaningfull.

I dunno, some folks in this sport feel like they're capable of the full black knight routine.....

Try reducing the reg pressure down to 0, it should vent the pressure between the reg and the bottle. Then you just store it in that state. Means you gotta set the reg every game, but that's not the worst.

technically yes practically, maybe the resistance from the valve will reduce the landing force of the hammer, and if it's a fragile skeletonised hammer this could make the difference and break it. better to drop the hammer gently outside of actual firing if you want to be absolutely sure, although many pews aren't gonna care.