Adolf Hamster

what the hell is going on with that grip!? edit: also why prioritise an ambi bolt catch over an ambi mag catch?

Man knows the way

Belt rig, plenty of options depending on the theme you're going for, but much more comfortable than a plate imo. Plates make sense if their primary purpose is to stop bullets so you might as well hang some mags off them.

So the rifle is £420 (first result on google, i'm sure its cheaper with some sleuthing) We gut the gearbox and get rid of all of those internal bits that definately aren't worth anything on the secondhand market. Then we add our shiny new inferno gen 2 spartan for £290 Which leaves us at £710 brand new, did i mention that comes with a warranty on the engine as well?

Man i always wanted to see an airsoft version of the old open topped cap'n ball revolvers

what worries me more is that the specific products aren't listed, or maybe i'm just weird that i can list the internals of my guns from memory?

man tm are bastions of elegant simple design, i never realized the hop arm and the barrel were the only internal parts on an mws!

i always just paste the url directly into the reply and it does it automatically

this is indeed true, i think the issue is that a lot of what you see/read tends to be "do x to get y" when the reality is it's a multi-variable problem and whilst often advice can be right for one aspect of the problem, it won't do much on its own. eg when folk ask for range you'll hear "sort your air seal", "upgrade your hop" or "run heavy ammo" when the reality is you've got to do all 3. or the other big mistake, is assuming that cost=performance=fun.

i dunno, you gotta start somewhere, i'd be a hypocrite if i said i didn't do exactly the same (hell i double whammy'd it by buying a unicorn as a first gun), i've walked that walk of shame with a broken gat many times (even several times in one game) pretty much everything i've learned has come mostly from fucking it up the first time and never letting a good gun sit for long without trying out some new tweak. hell the reason i joined this forum was a madcap "i'm gonna revolutionize airsoft" idea which unsurprisingly went nowhere. hell i still do it, can't stop, it's an obsession. i probably need help...... however, the one bit of advice i wish anyone, including past me, would take on board before starting the roller-coaster that is modding airsoft guns is this: have a good backup before you start. and don't fuck with it

not to mention, and this methinks is the more important point, that a stock gun put together by someone who knows what they're at can shoot as well if not better than a gun haphazardly thrown together from the most premium parts you can get.

yep no gun is ever fully upgraded. the closest ive managed still has the original outer barrel....

can depend on what's up with it. problem i have with gas guns is a lot of the time you're talking proprietary parts which on it's own isnt a problem, until one of said parts is the one that needs a fixin. however granted for the most part inspecting key parts for the common failures is a fair bit easier than the rigmarole of pulling and splitting a gearbox.

golden rule of airsoft- be very wary of anything that's "likely an easy fix" because the question then becomes if it's an easy fix then why doesn't the owner want to fix it? in this case it looks likely to be poor air seal, something someone confident in tech work is probably going to be tinkering with on any gun they buy anyway (even brand new), however it could also be something more sinister, like stripped teeth or a mangled spring. also potentially worrying on a high speed build that looks like it's taken a fair few names. on a side note this is also one of the stronger arguments for anyone wanting to learn tech work, takes a lot of headache and worry out of secondhand buying if you have the confidence to know that you can deal with any hidden problems.

if everything's cycling fine then it's not too massive an issue. the selector plate setup in an ak is a ridiculous rube golberg affair so it's not surprising they can have issues. i'd pull the box apart and have a look at the cutoff lever

hmm, ab on a 22k doesn't seem like it should double fire, if anything i'd be more worried about the opposite of it locking up.

you mean the pk-a? https://russianoptics.net/PK-A.html i do have a replica which externally looks very similar to the pic @Asomodai dropped (at least in terms of finish quality), although it's some rando chinese brand. pretty nice externals but internally it's the same setup as (insert £10 chinese red dot here) and there's quite a tint to it, although that said it's never shifted zero on me (on an aeg, doubt it'd take a gbb). of course parallax free is a term most airsoft sights don't understand.

2 round burst on semi is normally a symptom of going too fast. possibly it's got itself stuck on semi only now?

true, i'm kinda regretting jumping in so quickly with the scathing analysis now.

no need to apologise, hopefully that'll help you out getting a buyer.

so here we have a wonderful case of lazy advertising. i'm well aware that a sufficiently well put together hi-capa with high quality parts assembled by a reputable tech is an expensive proposition. however how in gods name am i supposed to work out if i want to drop £800 of my hard earned on such a gun when the seller doesn't even bother to set out the parts list? or at least name-drop the tech he used if he doesn't know it himself?

tiny o rings are your freind. i know what you mean though, getting them to not be sticky/gritty whilst also holding position ain't easy. the CU one won't move, nice o-ring on the adjustment wheel.

glad to know it's reassuring. i was kind of the same when i got mine, especially as some of the manufacturing marks aren't too endearing on first inspection (unfinished waterjet cuts for example) however for the fundamental task of lobbing bb's downrange it's better than any other ak hop i've dealt with. massive pain in the ass to adjust though, you're gonna have to just get used to opening the top cover.

the combat union hop is pretty good, got one recently and from what little testing i've been able to do performance wise it's on a par with the MAXX unit's for the m4 if not quite as shiny on the finish. the barrel locking mech is massively over engineered, makes you wander what russian fps limits are like...

it saddens me they don't deliver to NI