Adolf Hamster

Tbf, the grassroots and informal nature of this hobby has a lot to do with it. All you need to be a tech is to convince people to pay for your work, and all you need to be a reputable tech is to have enough people convinced that the work is an improvement. Mix in the combination of customers who dont check the work, after all if you posess the skills/knowledge to check then you more than likely just do it yourself. Just sprinkle on some confirmation bias and there you have it.

tbh i don't think it's that ridiculous a comparison, i mean the car world does have plenty of examples of cowboy mechanics doing sub-par work, people "improving" their cars (you know the type- cars that ground out if you leave a penny in the road and belch more smoke than a russian carrier every time they pull away) etc. airsoft teching is basically what car repairs/modifications would be like without the likes of the MOT system and related enforcement......

you could, but as a more long term solution @BigStew's point about getting parts would be the better method. one possibility, is to solder to the motor and site a conventional connector (eg a deans connector) elsewhere, for example if you're using/planning to use a gate external mosfet then that'll plug straight in.

dat carbon..... it is possible to solder onto other portions of the connector, i've done it a couple of times although it's more of a bodge than a proper fix. as @BigStew says it may be possible to pillage connector plates from other motors/get them as spares. if it were me, i'd be thinking about cleaning up that wiring too, don't want it trying to short itself on the gearbox casing.

afaik the specna ammo tends to be rated quite well, as are bls. needless to say if specna's ammo is just bls ammo in a specna bag then that's not a bad thing.

always something random..... maybe grab a new set of contacts for the long run?

the clanging sound (accompanied by bb's going in weird directions) sounds like you're clipping the tracer. the feeding issue, is this a hi-cap mag? are you sure it's both full of ammo and fully wound?

it could be, if there's not a good overlap then it'll accelerate wear, or in the extremes the cam won't engage the col at all. generally i tend to try and keep the sector as low as possible when shimming for precisely this reason.

it can be subjective, if they're name dropping a tech that the buyer deems as reputable (ie that their work will actually improve performance) then it can, but that'll depend a lot on the buyers experience with that tech. i don't know dave's reputation well enough to comment wether or not that applies in this case.

Active brake on a build that isnt fast enough to need it can be troublesome. That said its usually by stopping at that sweet spot where the col locks the trigger rather than the reverse as you seem to be getting.

worn cutoff lever is always a possibility, likewise changing gears can have different cam profiles that may not provide enough lift. i have at times had to just try out different col's until i found one that lifted properly for a given box/gear combo. typically though that leads to full auto operation, as the system doesn't trip off correctly. are you using active brake? because that can be tricksy in situations like this. your short stroking shouldn't have caused this, as with all the teeth remaining (ie if you hadn't short stroked) then the release point and cutoff point won't have changed.

when you say stopping the gears from turning, are you meaning that it's cut off the power supply or that it's physically blocking the sector gear? because those are 2 very different issues. if it's cutting off the power supply then unless you have a combination of a strong motor and active braking, then the gears should roll past the release point on momentum. even if you've taken teeth from the pickup side, the teeth on the release side will still be in their original configuration, so the fact you've short stroked it shouldn't be the issue here as if you hadn't those teeth would still be there. (although yes it is conventional to take from the release side)

sadly it wouldn't surprise me now now, no need to be polite about it...... yep, they walk among us. hopefully not in this case.

2 tone options!?!?!?!

this is the appraisals section, for if you want to price check an ad. if you're actually selling then the classifieds is this way -> https://airsoft-forums.uk/classifieds/

so what is it?

oh indeed, but that's the option we'd all rather we weren't forced to take.

no, can still see his fingers..... this, voting with your feet works great but only when there's competition to go to.

we've been here before too dammit sir! you have broken the chain!

in fairness, that pic might be creative, but not sure i'd call it blind firing? still has an arm and a face to shoot at....

this is kind of the point of the thread, north of 20 generally being considered faster than necessary. can confirm, fell for that trap and the simple version is against a sufficiently plot-armour clad target no volume of plastic is sufficient.

whiteholespewingtimeenginesdeadadviceplease

it's not necessarily the brand of bb's, but the majority of times i've seen this issue, better bb's have fixed the problem. particularly when it's binding in the magazine is the root cause. that said, it's typically an issue you'd see more often in midcaps with a double stack single-feed, as opposed to hicaps which are single stack single feed (and as such don't bind so much) there are other candidates, weak magazine or a pew running too fast without a delayer chip (typically manifests on auto but not semi). a longer nozzle can do it but usually that blocks everything.

is this on the specna's? because that was the exact issue (using laser dots admittedly) that started me down the path of running geoffs.

not to mention i ain't so sure that material is weldable.....