Adolf Hamster

assuming he's referring to pme there's a few signs, ranging from some nasty sounding crunching, a drop in fps on full auto compared to semi, or the easy to diagnose whirr of death after the piston/sector gear teeth decide to go on a tour of the gearbox casing.

i assume given his whole "super sneaky sniper" persona it's probably going to be sold around the "they don't rattle" tagline. which in fairness i can agree with, screw hicaps.

in fairness, he hasn't put one of those godawful m4 mag adaptors on it. turns out even novy boy has standards......

yeah, i've always been a sucker for plum and the airsoft versions just aren't quite right. thanks man, you've been a great help here

all the marks are the same- an arrow (archery type of arrow) in a triangle. they do look very dark under artificial light, but you can see the plum a bit better in daylight. yeah, it's got "102" and "I" marked on it. not sure if the raised marks in the middle are meant to be anything or just some general patina. will keep that in mind, probably give it a shot here first just for convenience (read: not having to make an fb account)

tried taking them on my desk under the daylight lamp, still not really showing the colours up as well. did notice one of the mags does have some markings on it: yeah, it's very much towards the niche end of the market. but i can afford to wait around for interested parties to show up. same kind of thing with the gun, often folks who'd be interested in that kind of thing have already built/comissioned their own.

there's 2 ways of going about improving trigger response (aka lock time). first is as you've suggested doing things like bigger batteries, faster motors or taller gearing. this will have the dual effect of reducing the cycle time in semi-auto and also increasing the full auto rate of fire. depending on how far down that road you go you can run into issues such as pme, which require more in depth methods to solve such as short-stroking. the other method is to use electronics, mosfets with a precock function will reduce lock time but without increasing the auto rof. a lot less involved mechanically although it does mean hammering the motor with active braking which can get them running hotter and shorten their lifespan. physical binary triggers afaik don't exist, it's only a product of an optical mosfet. however i would question the motives of anyone who wanted to use one in the field rather than just showcasing in the safe zone.

green gas is the order of the day then. just keep the mags gassed, odd dash of silicone and jobs a goodun it won't work as well in colder weather (guns with metal slides like WE will suffer before guns with lighter slides/better qc like tm) but as a holster filler just fine.

whilst i won't deny that pistol fits the op's requirements, looks nice and feels good to shoot it does have a bit of a caveat of when it works in the long run these things inevitably trend towards venting gas. personally, if it's just for a holster filler/occasional pot shot then the WE stuff is decent enough for that purpose (depending on model ofc, the luger isn't even decent for that). op- what particular style of pistol takes your fancy? as that might help folk narrow in on a specific model.

oh great, now he's ruining guns i like......

yeah she was a gen 2, main reason for mentioning uk stock is that they were much cheaper pre-brexit but that's now dried up. i paid 405eur+postage for her which would have £350 being about the new price. although granted that does avoid the wait time for importing (took several months to get that one) i'll see about grabbing some more pictures tomorrow. there's not much going on in the way of trench art, and a few dings and scrapes to the plastic. the baseplates have seen some corrosion to the point that the first thing i did was pull the lot and give them a soaking in wd. marbling pattern is gonna be a bugger to photograph as it doesn't really show up properly without daylight. i'd kind of be thinking the split would be something along the line of gun sans mags, mags on their own, and optic on it's own.

Ok, so clickbait title aside this is actually an appraisals thread. And sorry in advance @PopRocket123 but in my defence I did warn you in the dragonuv ad What we have here is what happens when you combine a tendency towards financial insensibility with an addiction to possibly pointless metrics. She started out life as an e&l aks74u that I definitely regret not picking up pre-brexit shananigans. Got that for £300 which seems to be cheaper than a cursory search of current uk stock. And yes I did break that rule about shooting the gun at least once before replacing almost everything inside. Before we begin please forgive the terrible lighting and shoddy camera work. Starting at the front the muzzle device has a choice between a combat union Bulgarian style flash hider (more like an amplifier for airsoft) or the gym membership option of a steel lct pbs4. The suppressor has an acetech at200r inside for tracer based shenanigans with some tweaks to allow it to line up properly and not chop bb’s. some of you may have heard mention from me as to how ridiculously heavy this thing is but if you haven’t it’s like a tm hicapa with magazine bolted onto the end of the gun. Moving back She’s had a reproduction B11u+b19 installed on the front with what is definitely not an afg that’s had an unfortunate bandsaw accident. Currently it’s setup with just the right-hand side rail (the left hand side is included) to hold a very nice reproduction SOTAC 2DPS flashlight. The B11 is a tad short but some creative o-ring placement has it sitting nice and tight on the gun. Continuing our journey rearwards we have a modern style pistol grip, think it’s a cyma. But what’s really stealing the show here is the middle finger to primitive notions of bore offset optic. It’s an NPZ Pk-1 aka “obzor” (1p63 is the Russian military designation afaik), which would be very steampunk except unlike older Russian designs this is not powered by coal but instead takes the modern eco-friendly route of being powered by sunlight (ok, and just a little bit of radiation because otherwise it wouldn’t be Russian). No batteries, it’s always on, and the only control aside from windage/elevation dials is the purple lever. Despite it’s bulk it’s a surprisingly light optic, weighs about half as much as you’d think it would. Think it’s due to the internals mostly being mirrors and empty space. Tag seems to mark it out as 2015 production, I think, it looks like a date at least. Optic is completely functional including regular purple mode, even more purple mode, and the tritium does work. I don’t know where it was before I got hold of it but sitting in a warehouse would be my bet. Comes with original storage bag and cleaning cloth. Fantastic optic for outdoors, although the light gathering mechanism doesn’t handle artificial light so well (read: not an indoor optic). Finally at the rear we have a blue force gear Vickers tactical sling. Of course me being a serial tinkerer the insanity continues under the hood. She’s running my favoured pdi 6.01 stainless barrel with combat union hop unit and ml macaron+omega nub combo. The gearbox has a maxx piston head with zci piston. Running 12:1 gears that may have been *ahem* “lightly” (read: heavily) short-stroked. There’s a titan advanced and a warhead brushless motor because mans misses his mouse click hpa triggers. The end result is about as close as I’ve ever seen an aeg get to hpa levels of trigger response, but with a rather modest 18rps auto. Accuracy wise she’s pretty damn good on 0.32’s, certainly good enough that most of the time my marksmanship ability presents the major bottleneck in the whole shooting process. All the original external parts are included in case the classic look is preferred, there’s also an original style (I think it’s a repro) standard ak sling. There’s also 8 NPO magazines in finest plum (the best colour), externally they have the appearance you’d expect of a magazine that’s been surplused by the Russian army however internally they’ve seen just one game. They’re a very tight fit in the gun with zero wobble. Totting up the big-ticket items (base gun, pbs4, 2dp, pk1, mags, titan and warhead) has the total at £1327 yes that’s the first time I’ve run the numbers and yes, I do feel slightly ashamed of myself. Reckon there’s maybe £200 in the rest of the stuff on there it’s a question I’m not sure I want to know the real answer to. Kinda glad now I never got around to draping it in proper zenitco….. Going by the standard 60% rule that has her at £916, although I’m not sure how much that applies to say the mags/scope which probably have a bit of a rarity element going for them? I suspect splitting might have to be the order of the day here, although always more convenient to sell as a package. Just as a point to note I’d intended a firing video but sadly the warhead motor’s rather flimsy contact mounting decided to pick just that very moment I was filming to give up. Rest assured I’ll be getting my hands on a replacement before listing the ad even if I have to buy an entire spare motor to do it (and no that won’t change the price). Suppose I should be grateful I found that in-person rather than via an angry paypal message. and yes there will be a video once it's sorted, and yes there can be hovis. I’m still of 2 minds about selling this gun, as she’s the last of my collection, but I’ve reached the point now where I don’t think I’m going to be returning to pewing any time soon and I’m not sure sitting in a bag in a musty cupboard is the right move. and as a final note, word's picture descriptions when exporting are amusing, apparently that lct pbs4 is a pen sitting on a table

he said vsr style maple leaf, which is what had me thinking hot-shot. i'm still wondering why the hell you'd s-hop a ml bucking and use a vsr barrel over just using an aeg barrel with a standard maple leaf bucking. unless he already had the barrel lying around and decided to install that instead of buying a dedicated one for the build?

to add to this, unless it's a fast enough build to be double-firing on semi then you generally don't need active brake unless you're also adding stuff like precocking into the mix.

in my defence neither have i. i mean my m4 still had the original outer barrel when i sold it

can see that one catching on amongst the 'yoot next thing you know they'll be wearing them sideways, damn kids and their loud music.....

potentially, a bad mesh means more load on the motor which will drop the peak rpm. how much you'd be losing depends on a lot of factors such as the motor power, battery, and how tight it is. you get the same effect with tight shimming, and it'll lead to things like a hotter running motor, more carbon from the contacts etc. kinda like trying to drive your car with the handbrake on.

the click is less damaging than the grinding whirr. stalling a motor out does draw more current than the motor running normally, but for the half second run time needed to check engagement it's generally not an issue. yep, she'll sound/feel less labored. it's a hard thing to describe really as every gun can end up sounding different. i've had boxes ran like silk seemingly no matter what you do to them and others that getting them to sound smooth was a losing battle.

tighten it all the way in, try to fire, keep loosening it incrementally until it's as quiet as it's going to be. don't start with the motor out- this might lead to stripped gears, worst you can do with it too tight is stall the motor which isn't a problem unless you hold the trigger down and heat everything up. while you're doing this be conscious of wether or not the motor is "sticking" in its mounts, ie that when you're loosening the adjustment the motor is in fact moving out. if it still sounds like it ate a bag of gravel then the problem is more complex, either motor angle (eg for m4's with aftermarket grips), the pinion/bevel tooth profiles mismatch (very common when changing motors) or the bevel isn't shimmed correctly (which is why some folks start at the bevel and work up when shimming)

it could be a ml hot-shot bucking? although he also claims it's s-hopped which is a totally different setup. i'd be asking what ammo he's using for that range, followed by the cylinder setup. 630 is a lot of barrel for a standard m4 cylinder (i'm assuming m4 but pictures could be sr i can't really tell) ^edit, scratch that, i'm evidently at the hallucinations phase of insanity, 430mm is fine for barrel length.

uh huh, how's that semiauto treating you

fornction furm functorm nope, not getting it

you are the exception that proves the rule. in this case someone who's happy with neither form nor function in fairness i suppose someone has to do it.....