Adolf Hamster

as much as i get the call of the tinkerer, speed chasing on an aeg isn't really worth it, once you start pushing beyond 25rps with a precocking mosfet and a motor with decent pickup it really becomes a very rapid dimishing returns curve that ends with an air-line. of course that said, i didn't listen either when duck told me that years ago when i was blowing racks out of pistons every half game day...... *looks at 12:1 ak build waiting for it's brushless motor to arrive* come to think of it i still haven't learned......

question is are you trying with the 12:1 gears to reduce gearbox noise or increase speed? assuming your setup is actually running at 40rps on that battery then the motor speed is ~29k rpm which working back to 18:1 is ~27rps (assuming the motor isn't speeding up) awaits duck coming along to correct my math on that

the short answer is you're pushing it too fast, you need to drop the speed either switching to 7.4, a much slower motor, or lower ratio gears. it's also worth noting that even if the gearbox isn't screaming in agony 40rps is when you start to get magazines acting up (ammo/mag dependant ofc) as a more general note, you don't need that level of rof, i get the allure hell i've been there myself (i went full airline....), but if your target aint gonna call 20 rounds then they won't call 40. only real solution to that problem is a better target.

that would be your problem then. that's way too fast for a 1j gun.....

isn't that just gonna be won by the 1" at 50m nuprol guy?

whats your rate of fire on auto? might be pme although short stroke with a ht motor shouldn't be that bad unless it's a truly monstrous battery. other possibility is tappet plate binding in a manner that's making it a bit slow to close- weak spring or tight fit.

for the sake of clarity, is this "6mm ammo" you're talking about or somewhere different?

*triggered*....... granted it doesn't do so well in the cold, but the WE makarov is a damn fine gat otherwise. although the options are decidedly thin for anything adopted post 1950...... i mean is it too much to ask for a gsh-18?

i'm the same, i'm kinda just spitballing ideas based on the photo's of how it's setup. also kind of curious how the hop is setup (read is maple leaf an option?) as that's pretty much all i'd tend to be looking for in terms of mods.

a possibility then, although without seeing one in the flesh not sure how feasable taking a drill to it would be.

yeah that was the arnies link i was on about. out of interest, when you have yours apart to change the o-ring might be interesting to see if the piston head has any vents? if not, a possible modification there to get a good seal without a super tight o-ring, i have something similar going on in the makarov and it works surprisingly well (as in it'll cycle on noticably low amounts of gas) damnit, this is making me want to get one again.....

generally top load, either via speedloader or by hand. dislike loading from the bottom as you always get an uneven stack and the shaking/rattling that goes with trying to get it to even out. however i tend not to completely fill mags, my rule of thumb is whatever the RS capacity for the gun is what i expect to mag dump from a fresh fill, if i need more than that then that's what extra magazines are for. so thumb loading 12 rounds into the makarov isn't exactly a chore.

huh, the report button is right before share for me. browser issue? although it works on my main rig which has opera and every adblocking cookie killing script denying add-on under the sun.

it's the 3 little dots at the top right give you a drop-down menu

That and water in the trouser-sock-boot transition does not sound fun......

Dont listen to him, he'll see the light once he see's us having a proper tea and crumpets on proper tables and plates rather than eating beans out of the tin in a muddy hole. A gentleman must have standards y'know......

I think the o-ring might be the trick here, the airsoftpro one has one and i can see that really damping out the bounce. As for the fps i'm not sure, a shorter inner barrel would help although by how much i dont know, issue is that thing's just venting co2 straight down the barrel. Maybe a spacer in front of the cylinder to shorten how much the valve can open, or maybe tap a grup screw into the nozzle and have a smaller hole to restrict flow. These systems tend to have quite fine balance to them so going to that level of tweaking can end up going very wrong very fast. To be honest, if it were me, i'd just go back to spring operation. You have to pull the charging handle back anyway so i dont really see what this is really offering you in terms of an advantage over the standard system.

There are mid caps that claim up to 250 rounds but tbh around 120-150 seems to be the sweet spot for reliable feeding. But yeah just fire until the bb's stop coming out (you'll hear the difference in the sound of the gun) and just reload.

Maybe a seperate grach thread? I know @kasaran has been having some trouble with his, seems more mags though.

best? the ones you can run around in all day and still have usable feet by the end of it. i'm a big fan of lowa's, they're expensive yes but for me at least they're worth it. C-diddy is bang on about the stocks too.

screw hicaps, they rattle, winding them is annoying and i've never met one that could discharge a decent amount of rounds without constantly being wound in the field. people claim such magazines exist but i've never seen it. they are however the standard mag you tend to get with a new gun, and when just starting out they're good for carrying enough ammo to play with without needing to invest extra in mags/gear to carry the mags, a single hicap with a spare in a pocket is a lot of rounds. midcaps imo are better in every way, used to be their main downside was being slow/annoying to load with the older style speedloaders but now you can buy an odin m12 and refill a ton of mags quick enough you can even do it mid game. aside from that they're fit and forget- fire it till it's empty then reload.

i had a scout around and it looks similar to the airsoftpro one? at least in concept, the one i found was advertised as putting out "you have to be joking" fps so i wonder if the version you have has had some different springs/tweaks to bring it down to something sensible? is there an o-ring around the outside of the moving section? if so is it a relatively tight fit to the cylinder?

Tbh, its not something i've ever worried about, if i'm dropping a few hundred on a pew then dont see the point sweating over a few £ either way. But then i dont tend to haggle either- if i dont like the price i just dont buy it or wait for the seller to drop it to a level i'm ok with paying. Someone else jumps in and buys it in the meantime so be it.

Its not an argument i really understand. Just work out the fee's and postage before you list it and add it onto the total price. I mean your almost always tanking a massive depreciation loss when selling secondhand gear anyway.

iirc isn't the uk definition based on a design that came out before 1875? theirs might be something similar. tbh i can still see it killing canadian airsoft, reckon a lot of them would rather have nerferised pews than lever guns.