Adolf Hamster

that is definately a new one. been stabbed plenty of times by springs and various pokey bits but never a piston......

how?

you can, but you run the risk of issues such as backlash or different teeth profiles. as long as you're checking for those it's all good. i've done mis-matched builds in the past this way.

agreed, any time i've run a variable it's been set to roughly 4x and left there. for up close just stack a red dot.

so £40 for an shs dsg, jg idler and a quite worn bevel that looks to be g&g or brand new £14.50 for the shs gear and taking your pick of any of the 18:1 shs sets (even the internal bearing ones) works out sub £35 assuming the nozzle is indeed shs those are £4 new as well...... all in you're able to do an equivalent setup (using standard gears not the fancy ones) brand new from ak2m4 for £34 including shipping. edit: on a side note i feel compelled to doubt the 55rps claim, assuming at that speed the piston survived long enough to register enough shots through a chrono i've not met a magazine, even the mighty cyma micap, that can feed beyond 50 reliably.

if the one's i've seen are anything to go by you don't even need to run- it won't fire anyway

good to know, recently have a thing dispatched via ems and was wondering if the increased border attention would spill over to russian stuff.

jesus 650 big ones and it's not even ruined upgraded?

tried it with just the gears in the shell spinning by hand? also worth checking backlash, even a completely matched set of gears can sound bad if the box has them spaced slightly too far apart. other thing worth checking is the idler in particular can commonly not be flat, so whilst it might spin freely for part of its cycle it could bind at a single point.

in fairness, the geometry of a hop rubber, especially the fancier designs like ml, is not a trivial thing to make.

excuse me while i generously apply communism to your our meme in future.....

he means that because you were getting proper readings when working on your m4 that the chrono was setup for fps. needless to say we all got fooled with that one...... tbh for a pistol you can deal with anything 0.5j and over.

ahh so my secret propaganda campaign is working then....... tbh i've owned more makarovs than i've seen in the wild, and i've owned 3..... the WE version is a nice little gat, and i have a thing about small handguns. i wonder if the rarity is due to 007 fanboys picking them up thinking they're ppk's oh aye, you say that now..... yeah, it's a big higher than i'm used to seeing from pistols, but hovering around the 1j mark is pretty respectable for a handgun.

Yeah, good to have. I have about 4 makarov loading nozzles, and thats not including the ones in the gun..... In my defence i figured better grab em while they were around.

haha, was not expecting that one, no wonder nothing helped..... at least the work isn't wasted, a learning experience is always good. guess that means the original nozzle maybe was good after all so now you've got spares.

npas is mostly for gbbr's to get them dialed down to a specific limit, not really much call for using them in pistols as with a few exceptions they tend to be far enough below our power limits. sadly that's the gbb life, part of the reason it's a standard reccommendation not to jump straight into airsoft with a gbbr. i'm struggling to think what else to look at. we've cleared the hop, nozzle, bbu and mag router, i'm assuming you didn't find anything of note in the trigger mech that was worn/jamming. did you mention what gas you were using? if you're using a lower powered gas try higher powered, but also the reverse if you're already using a higher powered gas. a higher pressure gas can drop fps by making the valve on the magazine too hard to open for the hammer setup (essentially light striking). there's also the hammer spring, did you try the bb under the mainspring? only other thing i can think is when you're chrono'ing is the hop turned on? the bb needs a little resistance to help it build up backpressure before it starts moving.

Float valve=the little plastic valve on a spring that's inside the nozzle, sometimes also called a rocket valve It directs gas forwards down the barrel then closes, sealing the cylinder so it can cycle. this could be the cause of low fps, if the spring is weak/damaged/been cut, or the valve is sticking and not resetting then the valve will close too easily, cutting off gas supply early. eg if you've ever heard of an "npas" kit for a gbbr this is basically an adjustable float valve. there are aftermarket versions- high flow/low flow valves and springs of various strengths, but very easy to totally fuck up a gun by changing them if you don't know what you're doing so my general philosophy is leave it stock. depending on the manufacturer this should have come as part of the nozzle assembly- you'd know if you changed it as it'll be the gubbins that goes inside the nozzle. if the new nozzle came with a new float valve then we can probably rule out that being the cause of the issue.

i dunno, no matter how much you push the envelope it'll still be stationary...... can't figure out spoiler tags so here's another essay for everyone to scroll past and not read: whilst we are all well aware of the events of Cinderella, her encounter with the fairy godmother and marrying a handsome prince. what is not well known is after the somewhat unconventional events of her youth her life was mostly unremarkable, serving as the roles of attentive wife to her husband who by dint of being a second child never had the chance to take up the crown. however happily ever after only lasts so long and eventually the prince died, a peaceful death but a tragedy nonetheless leaving Cinderella a widow whose common upbringing saw her shipped off out of the royal court to live the rest of her days in quiet solitude. it is here one day, we find Cinderella, time having taken its toll, an old woman sitting in her rocking chair on the porch of a little cottage, quietly knitting while a cat she'd taken to calling bob rested contently on the windowsill. as she's sitting there, her mind idly wondering, she finds herself thinking about time, and how after life seemed to be so much shorter these days. suddenly there's a gentle tinkling noise, subtle, but a noise that nonetheless cut through the silence like a razor and went straight into her mind. there it swooshed it's way through memories almost forgotten to the mists of time until, there. that was it. she looks up "it's been a long time" she says, as if greeting an old friend. "indeed my child it has" replies the fairy godmother "why have you come?" asks Cinderalla calmly. "you have lived a long and exemplary life" says the godmother "your charitable works and your political campaigns to aid those in need have been a shining beacon of hope for the poor of this land. and yet the king has so callously cast you out for fear of some imagined shame it might bring to his house" "the king has his ways, but he is not so bad" replies Cinderalla "that is as may be, but by way of recompense, i would once again like to offer you 3 wishes. is there anything your heart still yearns for?" Cinderella sits there quitely, pondering this opportunity, the wisdom of age tempering the youthful memories seeing the godmother again had stirred. eventually she speaks "the king is not so bad, and my life here is quiet and peaceful, but with time the maintenance of this place has become too much for me and it would be so very handy to pay some local men from the village to fix it up again" "certainly my dear" says the fairy godmother, and with a flick of her arm and a somewhat underwhelming "poof", the world seemed unchanged. silence decended, but not normal silence, this silence was louder than usual because a noise that had been there before was now gone- the creaking of the rocking chair had ceased for it was no longer made of wood, but solid gold. "what is your second wish?" asks the fairy godmother again cinderella ponders getting to her feat and pacing slowly around the room. "you know, i can't remember a time now when there wasn't some creaking in my bones, fog in my sight or pain in my joints. i'd like to feel the energy of youth again, if only for a day" again the subtle flick of the wand, only this time the magic is so much more dramatic as a swirling fog envelops Cinderella hiding her from view. when the fog clears cinderella is once again young, her mind unchanged yet she stood the picture of radiant beauty and youth she had been the last time she crossed paths with the fairy godmother. "and your third wish?" asks the fairy godmother once again the response is delayed, but this time it is not caused by careful contemplation. the funny thing about minds is how like water fills a glass and takes it shape so too does thought fill a body. Cinderella, remembering a long life well lived but with feelings long since forgotten now stirring points to the cat and says "this stray has been my faithful companion for many years, i love him like i once loved my dear prince charming, could you transform him into a kind and handsome young man like you once did with those mice?" "of course" says the fairy godmother the cat, sensing attention half-opens an eye to survey the room. his gaze somewhat distracted when once again the flick of the want, the swoosh of fog, and a gentle "poof" as the fairy godmother dissappears. before the fog even clears clears the cat, now a grown man naked as the day he was born, emerges sweeping cinderella up into his arms with a grace that would ordinarily take years of ballet training to acheive. he stares deep into Cinderella's eyes and leans down as if to kiss her, but instead he gently whispers: "i bet now you're wishing you hadn't had me neutered"

if by forget you mean "develop stress based amnesia" then yes, yes i will forget, ummmm, what am i talking about again?

But do we have to buy the one to begin with?🤔

i'm assuming so, he said he'd replaced the nozzle assembly which suggests a new float valve too?

should be easy enough to check, drop the hammer than lock the slide back and look to see if the knocker is resetting. that wouldn't give low fps though, just mag venting.