Adolf Hamster

tried that, didn't work, followed up with just straight wiring, that killed the mag. it *might* survive on 7.4v pass-through on an hpa but i'm not sure it'd stand up to a proper sized 7.4 and i know it can't handle 11.1

nearly, you do @ then the name, eg @Adolf Hamster so, the agm '42, ooh boy this is gonna be a can of worms and i'm really sorry to be the bearer of bad news. there are a fair number of issues with this thing, and it took a LOT of work to get mine to the position where it would be fieldable (note in this case fieldable means you pull the trigger and bb's come out in the vague direction you're pointing it). problem number 1: the magazine mech is awful, i doubt you're gonna get it to feed past stock speeds (ie by wiring it to the main battery) without blowing the motor, i sure didn't. it's a really underpowered mech compared to most other brands and the way it deals with blockages/a full bb tube is to just stall the motor. i ended up settling for a custom made mount to fit a classic army m249 box which has a sprung auto-wind and cutoff, this looked absolutely hideous but it did work. i can't say for sure if using a g&g mag is an option to preserve the gurttrommel look. i did try fitting mechs to a real '42 ammo can (the big 250 round belt jobby) but it's hard to get a mech to feed down a metre of tube reliably. problem number 2: the gearbox shell setup is aoe killer central, maybe the bullgear shell might fix this but tbh the split design with the gears in the handle and the piston in the reciever means any looseness in the grip mounting is gonna be a stripped piston, hell you look at it from the wrong angle its a stripped piston. problem number 3: the reciever is made of cheese- don't drop it because it will bend, the guy i sold mine to described it as "pasta" which sounds about right. it is possible to reinforce it with big steel bars inside the reciever but that's above and beyond your normal teching and into fabrication territory. also the bipod is made of cheese too, it'll break, but i think it's feasable to fit an RS one when it does. my honest opinion is your best course of action is to skip trying to get it working as an aeg and go straight into the hpa route, leave the magazine stock and set the engine to fire whatever speed the mag will feed to. of course that's not easy either as it's a weird nozzle length, i ended up taking a nozzle for a g&g sr25 and turning it down on a lathe to the right length, then it'll run fine as long as you don't drop/knock it and bend something. of course the results of all this work is gonna yeild a very heavy and awkward gun that's a pain to aim and doesn't do anything an arp9 with a drum mag can do at a quarter of the weight.

it's a tricky one. an enfield base would mean having to fabricate an entire blowback mech, but would make the external/visual modifications comparitively easy. possibly an m14? it's at least setup to have a mock rotating bolt to it.

the problem i've found with gbb's is they're systems that are in very delicate balance. the hammer spring, recoil spring, float valve, mag valve, how well the mag sits, the seals between the hop/nozzle and the mag/nozzle are all critical. my general theory is it's better not to mess with the base mechanism too much, because throwing out those tolerance can spell real bad news. all i've done with the makarov is change the piston head to what i'd call an aeg type (as opposed to the solid rubber thing that they come with stock) and generalised tinkering with the hop/barrel. same with the dragonuv all i've done is a bit of spacer rubber in the magwell and some hop work, but even that gave a bunch of problems. but everyone has their weakness, and i'll admit that i don't know as much about gbb's as i do about aeg's/hpa's, at least not to the level where i'm confident enough to be issuing advice on changing out parts etc.

i was gonna say charlton but unfortunately it's now too late for me to claim that i called it..... it's an intesting proposition, you can't just do the normal gbbr trick of not having a locking mechanism as it's external, i wonder if you'd almost need 2 gas supplies- one in the mag to fire and one in the "gas tube" to operate the cycling. it'd probably be awful to skirmish but goddamn would it command respect and admiration.

welcome to the wonderful world of compatible-ish, finding out rated brands are actually shite, realising sometimes cheap stuff is good, nothing ever fits quite-right world of teching. hence the difficulty when someone asks "what upgrades do it get?" because not every part fits every gun and sometimes a really top-tier bit of gucci kit is crap when it's just not right for the build.

wow, 1200 would buy you a LOT of shiny gat.

going by the first uk site on google to claim to have stock i'd say so: https://www.onlybbguns.co.uk/aps-uarb-urban-assault-rifle go to twg it's £125 (plus postage, spinning widdershins 3 times so it won't be blocked at the channel and sacrificing your firstborn to the tax man) even if it's got an asg infinity in there that's still steep.

Damnit, that was one that i thought it was but was like "nahh cant be an mg13 mag"

Thats a, umm, what is it exactly? I can see a mk23, some m4 bits and i a magazine i feel i should recognise but dont.

i found using o-rings instead of a spring to hold the hop to the box works pretty well for minimising wobble, admittedly at the expense of making it a pain in the ass to get the upper and lower together.

ahh yes, the wonderful world of first time hpa: *looks at fcu settings* FUUUUUUUUUUUUU

ftfy

For sure, he even painted the sights to match! Exception that proves the rule i guess

and as we all know every airsoft tech working at a shop puts the maximum of care, attention and the precise skill that only comes with experience into every job they do. or i could be wrong and there could be a reason why premium tech's are a thing.....

bullpup rpk innit or for those of us who cannot understand a concept unless stated in meme form:

Yeah let it go

that's because you're a toxic member who doesn't contribute anything to this forum. oh wait, sorry wrong guy...... i dunno, apparently being new isnt the problem:

see how much better the world is when we can have open and reasoned debate where we respect each others opinions fortunately the limitations of the internet prevent it being obvious that i couldn't type that with a straight face

lockdown has us all bored, plus we haven't been out shooting to grumble about what really needs to be addressed: speedsofters

righto, dunno where he's at but you never can tell with forums folk can be on at all sorts of hours.

fair enough, i thought when you used the term "conveniently deleted" you were inferring a cover up or something. btw who do you mean when you say Ed? if you're meaning avenger then i don't know his IRL name.

i can't say i'm sold on the idea of the moderation team acting as part of a conspiracy, they tend to be pretty impartial here. you're conveniently forgetting to mention the bit where me and @Skara offered you a fair trial. i mean as fair as any other witch trial was having a nice relaxing bath, and whilst my z5 might have been waterproof out of the box i ain't so confident it's waterproof now.....

are you meaning perhaps in the ad? because i ain't seeing what you're referring to in this thread. looks like the comments have been moderated and the discussion directed here, without seeing them i can't tell if you have a point or not.

you mean this convo? lets run through it shall we: original callout, just mentioning the price is expensive for what it is, which isn't unknown for this particular seller who often will link to websites in his own ads that are selling the same gun for cheaper than his price. bit of side banter playing devils advocate and defending the pricing (part of the open debate this thread is meant to have) both countering the points raised by albiscuit, again open debate and presented in a non-offensive manner. and this is the one i'm guessing you're meaning, where it is theorised (but not explicitly stated) that the gun was bought cheaper than it's being sold for, whilst also stating that there's no rule against this practice. granted there's an expression of distaste for the practice of acting as a trader via the forums, which is an opinion that can be argued to be entirely reasonable, although in this case stated with the help of memes in the banter-laden fashion that is common to this thread. i seem to be missing the bit where the toxic bullying happened?