Adolf Hamster

urgh, marmite, isn't that the shit they scrape out of the bottom of a brewing vat? yanno, the crap most companies throw in the trash? mayo is a tricky one, uk brands are crap flavorless goo, but you get the continental stuff? hmmm goes lovely on chips. however whilst we're on the topic of foods needing burned in eternal hellfire we can start with liquorice, it genuinely mystifies me how anyone can actually like that stuff enough to actually eat it, let alone pay money for it....

Hmm, as you say could be trying to shift old stock. Curious if there is truth behind this, if only as academic interest. Certainly all of my experiences with nimh are years old at this point given i've never had call to use them since the lipo takeover. Ofc there are valid uses for nimh (even in its bad old form) in airsoft, when dealing with rental guns. Cant trust rentals to understand the gravity of not mashing the trigger until the gun stops cycling.

Not entirely sure how much i'd trust a source that includes a sales link. But if there's been a reformulation of the chemistry of nimh cells to eliminate memory this is the first i've heard of it, surprising companies haven't at least re-named it to avoid the stigma of the old cells.

Pretty sure i still have a discharger lying around somewhere from the bad old days......

Am i reading that wrong? Because it sounds like your saying nimh doesnt have memory?

if it's the type i'm thinking of there are also a bunch of pop tabs (the devils work) that hold the mech in (the screws go into them) iirc you also need to disconnect the springloaded plate from the telescoping puller on the underside, it's a pin but not a tight-fit one. more of a pita to reinstall than remove.

The asg seems popular enough, cant really say havent used anything but geoffs in years, but something to keep in mind as a potential solution.

A light bit of pressure can be ok, as long as it's less than what the mag is capable of pushing. I'd avoid sanding the bucking/nozzle, its possible to do so but so very easy to ruin air seal. Worth trying a delayer chip, worst case is it doesnt fix the problem but it wont harm anything either and is the kinda thing i'd put into most builds as a matter of routine. Another thing to look at is the ammo, i've "fixed" plenty of misfeeding guns by doing nothing more complex than emptying the mag and refilling with some geoffs.

I wanna say delayer chip, a cycle in semi is gonna be slower on average than in auto (after the first round at least) so if its feeding reliably on semi then it may just be on the threshold of too fast to feed every time in auto. The macarons can occasionally give problems with the longer feedlips, kind of a trade off, most of the time they give a better seal and the accuracy that comes with it but certain guns it can cause issues, although thats usually much worse feeding even in semi if it feeds at all. Way to tell is to drop a round into the feed tube, if it falls all the way through then it wont be feedlips.

Qft, you want the motor to top out not the battery.

a faster motor (or more juice to the existing one) isn't a pure technical solution to the issue, but it can practically solve the problem by making a lockup scenario less likely, you can only pull and release a trigger so fast after all. same applies to using mosfets like the ab++ or warfet, they don't remove the physical conditions for a lock to occurr but they can be setup to prevent the box ever stopping in the region where a lockup can occurr.

i'd suspect if there's negative feedback on the account he's probably gonna switch it up regardless. i mean he's experienced enough in this scamming malarkey.

Iirc thats the same mechanism as i had retrofitted to the '42 to replace the awful agm trommel mag. From memory the spring for the winding portion on mine snapped at the end where it interfaced with the winding wheel meaning no tension on the bb stack, might be worth checking out. Another thing to look for is the length of the bowden tube, dont want excess that means extra friction and potential for tight bends.

Good rule of thumb is try to avoid charging more than 1c. Take the capacity of the battery eg: 1600mah, divide by 1000 gives you 1c or 1.6 amps. If in doubt slower is the safer option to go for, given the usage of airsoft there shouldnt be any need to go fast just charge up before game day and if you run out mid-day then buy more batteries.

What weight ammo are you using? Because the "350 fps" limit sites advertised is actually "350fps using 0.2g" so if your using anything heavier the raw fps number will be lower even if the kinetic energy in joules (the number that matters) is the same. The fps being lower due to heavier ammo isn't a disadvantage, in fact contrary to what you might think the slower heavier round actually goes further thanks to the magic of the magnus effect (aka hop). As others have said, being a bit under the limit (that is joules, not raw fps) isnt so bad, although assuming you're using 0.2g ammo then it sounds like you're a bit under. One thing to look for next time you chrono is the consistency in the fps, eg if its shooting 310 is every shot 310 or is there variation (eg 310 +/- 20fps), as a big variation is gonna be a sign of poor air seal (which results in shit accuracy)

You can have performance, reliability and economy but you can only pick 2.....

we all gotta goof sometimes

it's generally best to leave a gun alone especially if it's your first/only pew. whilst a lot of ootb pews have less than perfect shimming, they're generally good enough for purpose. the risk is opening up the gun first time is fraught with the potential for making mistakes on reassembly and messing something up. whilst that's just part of the learning process i can say from experience (having not listened when being told this back in the day) that the walk of shame gets real old the tenth time you've done it when your latest build/experiment hasn't gone to plan and left you with a pew that's either performing terribly or straight up not working at all.

damn, i swear part of me thought it was a trap.....

gears and piston are pretty standard, hop unit for sure is a proprietary item although afaik there are aftermarket options. mostly it's one of those guns best left unmolested as the ootb performance is pretty damn good.

yeah the internals themselves are standard enough

the tanks have an expiry period, given the pressure they're under you can't use them infinitely before fatigue makes them a safety hazard. for larger tanks (eg dive tanks) or the more expensive composite tanks you can get them re-tested, but for the cheap tanks most players use it's as cheap to bin it and get a new tank when the test period is up.

interesting to see what courier he's gonna post with, i'd imagine not many will want to take hpa tanks.......

hmm, iirc those do have a coil tube for feeding the ammo up, which can be abrasive to ammo. although decent ammo shouldn't be that badly affected, plenty of them mags in service. brasso? yeah that might do it, leaving that residue stuff. ipa might not be the right stuff to clean it either. might be worth giving it a real good buffing with a dry patch.

no idea who it is, but i'd guess luke doesn't want to go throwing rocks in case boulders land? kinda hard in his position, he doesn't want to be seen to be the one inciting an internet mob given how these things can snowball into death threats etc.