Adolf Hamster

y'know this is an interesting question, think a mate of mine is doing some work with fillers in polymers will ask him see if he has any info as to what it does to the mechanical properties.

i'd argue the v3 box is easier than the v2, although more due to it featuring in designs where getting it out of the gun in the first place is a hell of a lot easier. however for hpa that's much less relevant. i'd suggest having a read through here: the short version is for the most part simply installing an hpa engine into your standard v2/v3 box is gonna be pretty straightforward, at least compared to trying to work on them as conventional gearboxes. where you might struggle here is in the specific choice of the AEG. there are 2 key areas: the nozzle might be a different length, if it is then there tends to be a range of options available for each engine, although you may have to go with a longer nozzle and turn it down to length yourself. the 2-stage trigger. if i'm remembering AUG's (and owners can chime in on this to point out if i've gone wrong somewhere) but the first set of contacts uses the original ak style trigger/cutoff lever, with a second set of contacts mounted externally. you have 2 avenues to solve this: if you don't care about select fire (for example if you're building this as a cqb or dmr platform) and can forgo auto then you can likely use the standard v3 trigger board, you'll still be able to set it to auto via the fcu settings but this isn't a field expedient thing. if you do care about select fire/maintaining the 2-stage trigger then you can use the universal plugboard and wire it up to the original trigger contacts, can't say for sure having not tried it but i reckon it'd be a case of wiring the trigger normally and wiring the second set of contacts on the trigger to the selector contacts on the board.

Might be an issue with the mounting then. You'll likely find that if it's that far off then it might not be in the adjustment range and you'll have to shim it.

never really tried, but it shouldn't take that long even during a game to get a close enough zero set (close enough being pretty much all you'd expect from an airsoft gun anyway)

nope, every gun i've ever bought has been expected to be skirmished. there are only 2 exceptions: first is the unknown brand usp i got many years ago, because it never worked well enough to field (bearing in mind i've fielded a WE luger) second is my latest e&k ak74u as i haven't been out since finishing the build, but it has been test fired and will be fielded.

ahh so you're not making this to use as a film prop, you just want to make a replica of a prop. i'm still not getting why it needs to be one use, would be easy enough to drop an aep into that kind of shell and have hidden access for reloading the magazine/changing the battery. edit: i mean just to throw this out there, but if the real prop was a blankfiring uzi in a shell then it too would have needed access to load the magazine and operate the action, i doubt health and safety would have been happy with the idea of live props sitting around waiting for their scene. edit 2: what are you planning to use this for? if you want to use it for airsoft then it's gonna be pretty useless without the ability to reload, and if you're not planning on firing it then why does it need to fire?

what purpose does firing bb's serve in terms of the filmmaking? if you aren't using tracers then they're not gonna show up well on camera and i suspect requiring everyone on-set to be wearing eye protection might not be ideal. as mentioned a static prop, some theatrical shaking of said prop, and some time in post effects adding muzzle flash would surely be preferable? if it absolutely must be able to fire projectiles, then an off the shelf option is still going to be cheaper (especially if you sell it on after production) than trying to retrofit internals to a shell that doesn't have them.

why the hell does it only need to work once? tbh, it's likely impossible, by which i mean if it's capable of spewing bb's on auto at all then that de-facto will make it reusable. as mentioned the cheapest solution is to just buy one of the existing products that already do exactly what you want, even with the depreciation selling it on secondhand when you're done it'll be orders of magnitude cheaper and easier than making something yourself that works.

It is the unfortunate side effect of this pandemic that people have had some vastly different experiences, everything from mostly continuing as normal, working hammer and tongs on the front line, sitting indoors going insane on furlough or even worse ending up with no income and no certainty. I'm glad to hear as hard as your troubles were that you had the resources to weather the storm. You are right though, there are ways and ways, as i mentioned originally the way my local looked to solve this same problem was to open on more days, which gives both the site and the players what they want.

Hence my point about opening more being preferable to double booking which i agree is a shitty way to go about solving the problem. Thats the problem with autism- at the "lesser" end of the scale folk can, especially as they age and gain experience, become very adept at appearing normal, right up until the point they're not. indeed for the older generations it's very common for folk to be undiagnosed (and by extension unaware themselves why they act certain ways). Possibly, although as mentioned it can be incredibly hard to tell in person let alone secondhand. Saying things either verbally or with body language that are just the wrong fit for the situation is a common symptom (leading to more frustration because now people are pissed off). Again as with above this could be interpreted either way. Given you were a regular there and had a much clearer view of how he was acting you could well be right, as mentioned it could be interpreted either way when reviewed second-hand in writing. Tbh the reason i brought it up was more just to plant the seed that there could be an alternate explanation, having read it and realised some of the similarities. For sure, i mean they could at least have been up front about it- let folks know what was going to happen so they could decide if they still wanted to make the trek or not.

As much as i hate to be the devils advocate, it is understandable that sites who've spent the last year taking it rough from the government are gonna be desperate to get back to some sense of financial sensibility. However, there's a right way and a wrong way. My local's answer to the problem of wanting more money was hey, lets open more (as in doing wednesday evening and saturday shoots on top of their normal sundays) because our customers wanna play as much as we want their money. The wrong way is diluting down the service and not even giving your customers the common fucking courtesy of explaining why. However i might want to hazard a theory as to the way he was acting. I'm not saying this is what is going on, and without the context of being there it's equally possible he's just an asshole. However, sometimes folk who are on the spectrum can have quirky ways of dealing with confrontational situations, if they start to get overloaded then falling silent and walking off to do seemingly mundane tasks can be a coping mechanism relied on right before the bottled up panic gets unleashed as rage. If this is the case then the very last thing you want to do is to follow them/further elevate the situation as they may be very close to breaking.

Hope it works out, never tried the s-hop myself but i get the principle, if you're meaning the rtv gasket stuff surely that's gonna be too soft? I remember that stuff having the consistency of jelly. Honestly for a pistol? Either rubber (i tend to go for green- nice and grippy and pistol wont get the round count to wear out too soon) and whatever key fits most appropriately. Give it a decent barrel and feed it good ammo and that's all it'll ever need. You can get some stupid levels of accuracy/range out of pistols but there quickly comes a point where the limiting factor is more the ability to shoot well enough to make use of it.

if you mean the difference between say a decepticon and autobot bucking? it's the shape of the contact patch, forget which way round they are but one is more triangular and the other is more square, realistically the difference is most likely 90% marketing. the key is meant to apply a more even pressure, similar to how for example the omega nub is for an aeg. the different sizes/shapes will be to fit different pistol designs, for example if a gun has a wider or narrower, longer or shorter window for the hop arm. it's useful when combined with one of the ml buckings (or buckings of a similar style), as it means the whole patch gets pressed down rather than just the middle. the whole idea behind the ml products is you get the same result as the s/r hop without any of the associated hassle. by all accounts the S hop tends to have a very short lifespan, and whilst R-hops last longer these days (thanks to off the shelf products like the ml stuff) they tend to have limited use. the only advantage an R hop has is the ability to have different compounds for the feed lip and hop patch, so a soft patch for spinning heavy ammo combined with a hard feed lip to hold a seal at higher fps. however for the autobot/decepticon this can be solved with the metal c-clip they come with

indeed a simple solution to the problem. problem is, at least for the sites i play at, nobody has a bloody clue that they exist or what they mean.

also worth noting that spies generally don't receive the favorable treatment that regular soldiers do when they get caught.... i can see the point you're trying to make, but as tackle pointed out better than i can there's a lot of body language that goes into it. sure if your hand isn't up (or sometimes even if it is- terrain dependent) you might expect to catch the odd round to the noggin while wandering across a live play area, hell even marshals get the occasional ping despite the high vis. and this is the crux of the matter- do we want to open up on literally anyone who isn't hand in air yelling dead man walking every 3 seconds or do we want to have some judgement in the matter that someone who's acting the common practice of being dead is in fact dead (or at least, not playing)

it is, exactly as common a practice as not having your hand up the whole way back to the safe zone and instead relying on people seeing you're not walking the same as you would if you were playing.

that's the whole debate in this thread- wether it's a tactic that should be used. my issue with it, is say later on someone gets a dead battery and has to walk off, next thing you know they're getting lit up because everyone remembers the shenanigans you pulled earlier and assumes this guy is doing the same thing. i don't have an issue with performing the flanking maneuvre, as you say it wasn't restricted in the game rules, hell if it had been me i'd probably have been sprinting (ok, "tactical waddling") out the front gate and finding a sneaky hiding spot the moment the whistle blew. the issue i have is in intentionally betraying people's trust in a game that relies on trust. indeed, it's a very human problem and no site is immune, it's what's been really pushing me out of the hobby lately as there's just no consistency, can't rely that the thing you do to have some fun and unwind won't end up doing precisely the opposite.

it does sound like you're on the right lines. i don't know enough about that particular model to suggest if things like sears etc are worth considering. can't really help with the cylinder head, sounds like it might just be on there real tight?

the demeanour is the thing, if you're giving the impression that you're not in-play, for all they knew maybe you'd had a dead battery/ran out of ammo/other reason to leave the site and did you the courtesy of not peppering you as you left. at the risk of turning this into a wider debate, and acknowledging i'm as much a perpetrator of the *ahem* "amended" playstyle in response to others playing (usually involving the selector lever), this is a big problem in airsoft in general. i've seen plenty of characters who, for example, will play perfectly honestly up until their first "non hit-taker" whereupon they immediately don their own plot armour and add to the issue, opening the door for others with a higher bullshit tolerance to start considering the option. it's why it can only take a couple of arseholes to completely ruin a game day- because otherwise decent players will resort to indecent tactics in response, multiplying out until the end result is an uncontrollable shit-show.

hmmm, sounds like that's a bit over the line for my liking.

if you went around them isn't that just a standard flanking maneuver?

I was referring to the semi auto version rather than the pump version, that thing was spewing just as much plastic as any other bb hose.

You could try shortening the barrel? There's also potential to shim the float valve yourself, not the easiest thing to do but an alternative to an npas.

it's not as bad as the "semi auto" one that was out a while back. cant remember who did it but that thing was just hosing down every corner with a shower of bb's. and yet people would lose their shit if you rocked up with an hpa running 3 round burst.....

Who the fuck is this guy? You people are acting like he's one of the lads or something....... J/k, welcome back dude, although the effect of this is now spoiled by the lack of text size changing on mobile.....