kasaran

I've found most hop units generally do have a gap, brought some brass rings from ebay and sorted it

It is quite normal for there to be a gap; that is what the brass ring is for.

I think Luke put them in my guns I sent to him to get fixed..yep, very tight fitting..but awesome as well.

tm all the way!!

How is this even a conversation...?? TM TM TM all the way if you have a choice between the two....

its all a matter of patience

will bare in mind, its all new to me, never done any gearbox work before.  the ex rental combat machine is very much a guinea pig

Find "Negative Airsoft" on YouTube.

Love or hate the guy, hes a very good guide on how to build a gearbox correctly.

if your considering a mosfet id throw in a perun v2 hybrid again available fro our lovely ak2m4,also the m4 compression kit upgrade from ak2m4 is another gd call improved my m4 no end

Depending on the cylinder, yes, a longer barrel will boost the energy output.

Installing the same exact gearbox in a wider range of guns is just one way to cut corners (imagine having to tune each gearbox)

It's possible, and plausible, and even likely, but I wouldn't want to leap to any conclusions.

If you're wanting to improve the air seal and energy, I'd start with just squirting some silicone oil or spray up the nozzle, swish it around, then blow it out the nozzle before re-assembling.  You can also get some in behind the piston head via the cylinder cut out.

The gearbox sounds alright so that is something im trying not to crack open.  im trying for a more classic M4 look, so i have ordered a 4 inch outer barrel extension which will allow for a longer inner barrel.  So if the theory is right that they use the same gearbox etc in all varients of combat machine, will give it just a little more fps without having to open the gearbox (another 20 to 30 fps would do nicely.)  The current plan is a new hop-up assembly inc rubber and buckings with a longer inner barrel.  open to recommendations on good hopup units not gone aftermarket for these before

depends on what you want.

but they do offer a lot of functionality such as burst, precocking etc.

So with one not wired into the gearbox would still help trigger response?

that's what precocking is, when setup right.

A tick! uuurghhh!

Nasty things.  I had my top tucked into my bottoms.  Long sleeves, full trousers, army boots and gloves.  The thing somehow got in and crawled up to within 4 inches of my gentlemen bits on my inner thigh.  How it got there i cannot fathom.  Glad i got it out alive, though with normal tweezers.  Think im gonna buy some tick ones to carry on me next time

hah i bet you freaked out when you took your bottoms off and saw it! i would! Alien invader!!!

I like them a lot.  I've a tight bore barrel on mine, standard green hop rubber and a ZCI plastic rotary hop.  It has a lazy mans plug and play Burst Wizard 4 'fet.  

The barrel support is weak, the controls lack much feel or deliberate clicks and they feel a bit flimsy beside a steel receivered rifle, but they are very light and the M4 ergonomics are hard to beat/fuck up. 

I keep mine switched to full with the burst set to single shot and spam the trigger with manly abandon.  It's had scores of thousands of rounds through it.  Never misses a beat.

I've a second that I've bought to get silly with tuning wise.   

Hi @kasaran! 👋

I’ve used a variety of pouches and rigs. Is there anything in particular you have in mind? 🤔

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G-Code Soft Shell Skorpion https://www.tactical-kit.co.uk/g-code-soft-shell-scorpion-rifle-mag-carrier-23683-p.asp

See i have some like that. But the back of akm mags has a thin metal strip.  Something that would likely cut through rubber/plastic retention pouches. Or so id think?

Much thanks for the extra detail.  Will likely have a crack one of these weekends.  

As for your pegs, are they made from scratch or modded from something readily available?

I had some 5mm x 6mm plasticard lengths for building models. The business end got whittled to a taper.

https://www.expotools.com/acatalog/PMS1925-Plastruct---Pack-of-5---4.76-x-6.40-PMS1925.html
 

It is in deed, well spotted!

What did you measure it with? Reason I ask is those measurements don't line up with metric standards. It's also not imperial standard (usually 1/64th's).

Imperial would be 1/16 x 19/32 (1.587mm x 15.081mm). But that gets factored back into metric for most sites and is sold as a 1.6mm x 15.1mm

You can find rings done to 1/128th's In that case it's closer to a 9/128 x 19/32 (1.78 x 15.081mm) sold as 1.8x15.1mm. Not common at all, but you can import them. I'd measure twice to be absolutely sure that is the dimensions you need.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/383165765183?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28

the measurements came from this guy https://arniesairsoft.co.uk/forums/index.php?/topic/218851-raptor-mp-443-pya-grach/  and curious if i can replicate his results

Sounds like maybe the valve is not closing fully after being struck.

You can test by immersing in water when filled with gas and watching for bubbles. No harm will befall it just make sure its dried well after 🤞

Regards 

i assume it supposed to be assisted by a spring?  if so, then i think raptor need to invest in stronger springs, as some of the others on the gun are very much underpowered

Yeah a weak spring but also assisted by internal gas pressure.

Regards 

Guilty on this account!!!! 🔫😂👍

One day I will stop.... 🤔🤞

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Mines the other way round. whenever I buy a new gun and am waiting for it to arrive I tend to look for it in a game and play with it.

when I've ordered from them normally a couple of days.

Have you had any custom work done like deans connectors? they took a week or so to change the connectors on my SCAR 

no extra work.  i did get a call today to say one of the patches i ordered was out of stock and asking if i wanted to swap or refund.  i believe it should be dispatched today. 

That's a buy it and we'll drop ship it.

Be careful, Extreme are really good if they have the item but if they don't or there is a courier problem then they're as much use as David Beckham on Mastermind.

fair, tis a shame, they have it £70 cheaper than patrol base... which have it in stock...

Same guns as specna/saigo defense, just different coloured plastics (nozzle, delayer chip, hop chamber and tappet plate)

@kasaranIf you want a cheap Mk18, I'd go Specna Core. As @Skaramentions, it appears that Specna and Evolution use the same OEM, with the respective companies specifying their (minor) internal/external component choices to the factory. Comparing the two models on Patrolbase, the Specna comes out £50 cheaper.

I would use that £50 on an SHS/Rocket High Torque motor, ZCI inner barrel, ML Macaron/Omega Hop rubber/bucking. Job done, and spend nothing more until it breaks.

The newer Cores are also now coming with Gate X-ASR Mosfets as standard now, which is a nice update. And the Specnas are licensed with DD themselves.

dont, curve ball is the lct akms is back in stock in places.... damnit

Friom gunfire's website, its an Orion inside ><

Yeah, the Edge range has the orion gearbox. If you get an Edge, try and get the newer Edge 2.0.

It has a Gate licenced flat trigger that is optimised for the Aster mosfet, and the new Flat hop up rubber.

Apparently Specna have sorted the issue with the weak gearboxes, but I'll be able to tell you first hand if that is the case after my E05 Edge 2.0 arrives soon.

The CORE C19 is still DD Licenced, but has the plastic body instead of metal. 

The rail is still metal however.

THE ULTIMATE GAMING SETUP...

Well maybe mostly Home / Office...

Well just general browsing...

Ahh fuck it - I got a new gaming mouse instead

Don't bother with hardware. The future is in the cloud. You don't get AKM's in the cloud.

Tbh. Im more often digi flora or tiger strope2. Cant remember last time i used multicam

Beans ❤️

Haha.

Buy two for the price of two.

Yay winner!!

Hey wait a minute....

Regards 

My personal favourites at the moment are ‘collection only’... during a national lockdown.

@alxndrhllthat is just to trick their wives/gfs into thinking they "want" to sell those items

I'll agree that they are pretty overpriced (especially the handheld version), but there is a fair amount of metal used, and a nice wooden stock as well. The large metal barrel and barrel assembly are also likely fairly expensive to cast properly, but apart from that like someone said before, a lot of that cost is probably from Nuprol's bottom line

SEAL tax?

I'm not sure simplicity = cheap, or even complex = quality. ICS MGL a good point to raise. Whilst its' been literally years since the first and last time I held an m79 (can't remember if it was KA or the old CAW version), it was a solid bit of kit and a "quality product". On the other hand, the ICS MGL (which I have) is well, half the price.. and for good reason. The complex bit is pretty decent, and does what its supposed to do. But evidently corners were cut elsewhere, it is incredibly plasticy, there is lots of flex to it and it seems pretty fragile, I wouldn't want to drop it, and I wouldn't want to transport it outside of a box. Not a fan of nuprol but IIRC m79s have always been fairly expensive

You can't spec a PC for ArmA 3.

Unless you work at NASA or something.

@Skara oh, I still get arma'd but now, at least on not heavily modded maps i can have a decent view distance and frames.  I remember my machine before the last upgrade, the view distance was so low the UAV misson on campaign was to high to nothing rezed in on the ground.

I play mostly KoTH and until a year and a half ago I had 40 fps literally everywhere on my craptop, 1.5k view distance on anything, now though, the game doesn't even start and sends me to a nice BSOD which also fucks up steam library -.-