Adolf Hamster

that's the plan, the one on arnies goes into some decent detail, certainly enough for me to think the issues are manageable. always a case of context though, for example i don't mind if a pistol shits itself in winter so i'm happy with WE stuff but other folks would hate them for that.

should be, although i don't know what customs are gonna be like with the new arrangement, in theory it should be fine but you know what civil servants are like.

yeah, they mean one of those "any notes eg leave the package in the coal bunker" type boxes but it's further in the order process than you can get at the minute because they wont let you ship to the uk.

Yeah maybe a dedicated project thread might be better. As for materials as with all airsoft guns "chinese pot metal" is the safest assumption so welding is probably gonna be tricky. Cant recall the charlton specifically but i thought it used the original bolt handle as a lug? Or am i thinking of one of the other conversions.

Are you sure you're ok? I mean i know lockdown has us all a little riled up but you might want to stop before you become a speedsofter and we'll have to excommunicate you.....

yeah, @Asomodai was saying a bunch of folks dont like it. took a look at the review on arnies and tbh a lot of the issues are stuff i can fix/live with. for my needs if i can slap a ml autobot in there and lob at least one magful of .32's before refilling i'm happy.

fair point, although still quite the gap to make up.

brings our running total up to 670, which by the usual 60% yeilds £400 it's interesting when you compare it to other sales in the hpa section:

hopefully not too long, mans needs his emotional support grach

tbh i'd view it as the most inviting challenge to do it properly and have the mechanism rotating and blowing back. the issue really is how to get the blowback to push the action rod back, hence thinking perhaps having the mechanism inside the gas tube, not sure on the diameter but maybe you can get a single co2 cartridge in there, or have the thing as a big gas reservoir.

I mean that because a lot of guns have locking mechanisms that aren't very visible in operation, the gbbr version doesn't need to have any mechanism to replicate it. Hence mentioning the m14 as one of the main exceptions from the top of my head because the fake bolt has to rotate. Compared to the charlton where the whole point is you can see everything moving in a symphony of steampunk awesomeness

not sure geoffs branding works in box form though, looks kinda medicinal. i mean it is medicinal but not for the person using them

it's electrical tape, duct tape costs extra

wait, you made a bunch of cardboard ammo boxes? that's both weird and cool in equal measure

brings the brand new total up to £620 then

how about this: m4 base: £190 jack: £266 hop unit £53 barrel: £61 hoping that the stock isn't actually being held together by electrical tape and cable ties: priceless

So theyre still not taking any uk orders? They have a thing i want, and it'll be more than 135

see now that works, plus you still get the proper folding action. would rather a 20-rounder in it though.

Nope. I actually preferr the ugg boot. But then i dont like the extended rails on scars and i seem very much in the minority on that too.

Good work brother, the pervasive fitting of m4 stocks onto not m4's is a plague that needs stopped at every opportunity.

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.