Adolf Hamster

thrust bearings for sure will do it, you can even add shims to adjust a little bit. normnally i just run one on the spring guide and not the piston. air seal for sure, hence the discussion about static/dynamic airseal with regards to the porting (although you really want voluming to be correct on the build regardless) normally i'd blame nozzle-hop, as it's much more of a bugger to check than the rest of the system (ie you can be pretty confident by testing the rest of it is right) often its a case of the hop unit sitting too far forward (especially in guns where the hop unit is bolted into place)

i get where you're coming from, but all i can see it doing is changing the pressure curve. ie a longer but lower pressure curve as opposed to a shorter sharper curve. all things being equal the total energy input to the system remains the same.

afaik isn't there legal connotations to suppressors/muzzle devices in the uk? you might want to check that out. it depends, but i'd imagine not. .22 is nominally around 5.5-5.6mm which is smaller than our 6mm bb's. granted the hole in the suppressor will be bigger than that to give the bullet some space to move through, but i doubt it's going to be enough for an airsoft gun bearing in mind that the leeway for a supersonic projectile from a high-quality rifled barrel is going to be a lot tighter than the leeway for a glorified air-musket, i mean a lot of airsoft suppressors have 10mm+ holes in the end-caps and even then they can still chop bb's.

if you aren't limited to semi-only there's not really much call for a long blade trigger and feels like it'd be more a hinderance than a help. it's pretty much only for the "that's not full auto...." crowd......

not really, i can see where you're coming from but it doesn't seem to have as big an impact as other factors. aeg's tend to supply a fixed energy rather than a fixed pressure. there is the argument that porting helps fill up the cylinder quicker and the sudden pressure change as the port closes can help get a better piston seal although that's not as much of an issue if you have good static compression.

it can be done, but tbh you aren't gaining anything. what is key is getting the gearbox (engine), hop and barrel aligned to be perfectly square and tight, and whilst you can do it yourself its a shitload easier to just have a manufacturer toleranced matching set.

dont bother with R-hop, drop something like a maple leaf macaron in there, pretty much the same results without all the ballache.

Nah, your gonna lose it all down the feed tube if it gets that far anyway. Either way, any air leak at the nozzle-hop interface isnt going to help your accuracy.

That o ring is more for alignment of the unit than seal, you dont want air coming that far back (it shouldnt be escaping from the hop/nozzle)

yep, welcome to airsoft design philisophy- if it works long enough for us to get out of a warrenty claim then it's fine.

pins in the side?

tbf marui users aren't the only ones who can deck a gun in shiny and expect it to work better. it's just that the tm recoil platform seems to attract enough of that type of player to make a stereotype. i don't mind it, especially when it makes their guns shoot worse, makes my life much easier

tbf though, it's not like a gun being sold "working" is any guarantee of not finding something horrible going on inside. although if we're being super fair it's not like buying a gun brand new is a guarantee of not finding something horrible going on inside......

which degree rubber are you running and what sort of energy output are you getting? i find the maple leaf 50 degree (green) can lift up to .48g at 1j, so with lighter ammo and higher energy you could look at the 60 degree (tan)

are they blaming a broken bb for issues of uniformity that could damage an aeg? cos if you're putting a bb in that state into your gat you deserve everything you get......

yeah i've heard a lot of similar stuff about the clones with the handles etc. and i must admit the dutch version rolls off the tongue better than the english lol.

i'd give you an expected lifetime for the og m12, but mine hasn't broken yet..... for context i bought mine before the clones hit the market....

Its a jg gearbox i picked up boneyard, those holes are the result of someone doing an "fps downgrade" who presumably had either zero knowledge or gave zero fucks Shame, wasnt a bad cylinder until that happened. Have to laugh at the aftermarket piston head in it like they gave a crap about air seal...... Building her into a new box for the lct because i've given up trying to make the stock box sound nice.

Wasnt sure if this goes here or if we need a cursed airsoft images thread:

Yeah, currently putting the stock internals back in the lct box before fitting out the cyma to run. Think i'm gonna sell it on, although realising that's gonna be fun with this review here lol

Maybe scratch build it? Grab an e&c reciever from @ak2m4 and build up from there.

yeah, grabbed a cyma box gonna build it up and see if i can get it sounding nice. suppose should mention the hop wasn't bad, the game i ran her for accuracy was defo passable (running a PDI W-hop on geoffs .32's) and in a rare moment for airoft guns the bb's were actually lined up with the irons.... thinking i might still go for an e&l 105, that guns been stuck in my head since writing this originally (the one i'm comparing to is a mates gun)

this feels like an arp556 with the stock swapped. the key i've found is balance is as important as overall weight, keeping the centre of gravity in the region of the magwell makes things nice an pointable even with a nominally long frontend, so a standard m16 stock with a chunky battery sounds like a plan. the other question is what kind of tournament are we talking? it sounds from the 8hr's and hiking it's more milsim than speedsoft, so presumably a focus on long-range is what you're going for.

Because they dont have the time......

Luke is a tricky one, he does know a lot of stuff and in his defence he isnt afraid to go against the grain of established knowledge based on his own experience. granted whilst its mainly for comedic effect his way of so confidently stating things as fact is tricky because whilst he may have a point at the core of his argument, stating things so bluntly can be easily misinterpreted. This battery issue is a good example, i have experienced first hand the results of too much amp draw on a lipo that cant take it (fortunately it was during testing and it was noticed before any actual damage to the gun/battery). My solution was to use bigger batteries (same voltage and c rating, just larger capacity). There are a few issues i definately disagee with him on (like aoe), he makes a big deal about lost cylinder volume yet a lot of the guns he build end up short-stroked or have ported cylinders (so evidently cylinder volume doesnt matter that much....) Of course if you dial down the tone to "lots of people way overdo aoe" it makes much more sense. Even funnier in that vid he says to use "silent" piston heads which do exactly the same thing only with the mass mounted on the piston, where you dont want mass (without the extremes of swiss cheesing) But then nobody can be an expert at everything, and we all have the things we thought were true or good ideas or good products that turned out not to be the case, which in fairness is sort of the point of this thread.