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Bolle Cobra provide certified safety lenses with good coverage, have angle adjustable arms and come in different colours and Ultra Clear. Use an anti fog wipe at the start if each day and you will be sorted. Cost is between £12 and £14 from safety wear companies. I got clear, yellow and smoke, big zip case and antifog wipe for about £40.

Double gap pistol kywi became two pistol mag holders. One had the kydex insert trimmed to allow a speedloader to sit fully in the pouch. Added the modded one to the side of the Spiritus MkV to allow me to reload 3 MWS mags on the go. Saves lugging another 1.5kg of mags around 😁

Sounds like an Angry Gun adjustable nozzle / valve. Is it a dark grey plastic? Probably not needed on an HPA set up as you can adjust the power on the regulator?

Congratulation on the purchase! That isn't the nozzle, it is the end stop of the nozzle return spring. Top one looks like the regular TM one, bottom threaded one....not sure. They both do the same job. Any difference in performance (FPS, etc...) will be to do with the plastic nozzle at the front of the bolt and the little valve & spring inside it (look into the hole in the underside of the nozzle)

I would guess the grub screw is a pretty big % of the weight of the NPAS and without it the valve is much quicker to close even though it is basically fully open? What NPAS is it?

Weak tappet plate spring not moving the nozzle forward consistently? Mid-cap syndrome where the mag spring pushed the BBs hard against the nozzle causing it to sit at and angle and leak air? Did you change the nozzle? Sometimes square ended or tapered ones can play up with the bucking if they are different from stock. Or mixed BB weights 😂

This chap has some good videos on gearbox wrangling. https://m.youtube.com/@TheAirsoftTech Luke can be entertaining but not always coherent or linear in his vids 😂

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/222731/Misuses-of-PMR446-Band-Prosecutions.pdf So using a UV-5R on PMR446 seems pretty safe There are lots of FOIA requests listed on their site - https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/foi-dp/foi-responses

Interestingly someone filed a FOIA request to OFCOM to ask how many people had been prosecuted for using a walkie talkie without a license. It was none. They “always try to educate and assist users” Contrary to what Reddit and FaceAche groups will tell you, where you expect the OFCOM SWAT team doing a no-knock at 4am (yes I have a license, sit down!)

Yes the Cobra glasses, and I am not that sweaty so maybe I am lucky? Link for site I got them from: https://www.alive-sr.co.uk/products/bolle-cobra-cobpsi-clear-lens

I ended up trying some Bolle Cobra glasses - almost 2 hours grading in the heat and no fogging and close fit all round my face. Ended up with a great, yellow and HD clear pair along with storage bags and anti-fog cloth for less than the Blocs. Rated to 0.86g at 120m/s = over 6J so should be fine for airsoft 😆 Not as tacticool but I'll survive

Trigger not resetting can be down to a few things: Lubrication - it needs lube but not too much or too thick. It will slow things down and attract dirt. I find locksmiths graphite spray ideal, very slick but not gloopy like oil or grease. The trigger spring puts a twisting force on the trigger that can cause it to rub the trigger box on opposite sides (front right, back left for example) I used some fine grade abrasive paper to polish these sides of the trigger to help reduce this. It is a while since I had the trigger apart so I can’t remember where the c clip goes!

If it is the same video I am thinking of he said that any travel past the start of the slot was wasted energy. Also, the piston doesn’t have to clear the cylinder slots to allow air in-front of the piston. It can be pulled in through the nozzle and round the piston o-ring just fine.

After a pair of safety rated shooting glasses for airsoft use. I tried a pair of Bloc Lynx and found that they sat very high on my nose but more worryingly there was a BIG gap at the side / side of the cheek. Does anyone with a narrow face have any recommendations? Preferably available with interchangeable lenses.

Thanks for the tips, I have run it at several games and put 1000+ rds through it and not had any semi lock up - must have been a one off! It does sound a little screechy in the video - certainly not that bad in real life, probably down to the cheap mic on the phone. I checked the shimming with all gears in place and the shell screwed shut (not just held shut with fingers!) and it was all spinning smoothly.

I would make sure the zet plate that holds the bolt open moves freely and the bolt/buffer spring is lubricated well. Then maybe unscrew the buffer tube by 1 turn and see if that helps? If the mag is getting low on gas it might not fully retract to allow the lock to work.

Which speedloader? Is it the pistol or rifle sized one? Any regular pistol or M4 mag pouch should suit. Doesn’t need to be anything fancy as the speedloader isn’t heavy. Probably choose one with a flap or bungee to stop it falling out and spilling the BBs 😂

Event was ok, quite a few of the opposing side were no-shows so they were at an immediate disadvantage so really struggled and unbalanced sides doesn't make for demanding play, especially on such a convoluted site. Some good taskings and role-play but still plenty of times where we were making our own stuff up. On site catering was great though. Mostly good hit taking / sportsmanship but still the odd idiot moment on both sides. The alleged anti-semitic bit was actually because the numpty drawing the banner didn't know how many points a pentagram had so it ended up with 6....FFS. As to the mutilated sex doll - I guess that was a castrated former prison guard? Figured the props bill wouldn't stretch to more than an Inflatable Ingrid which given the £100 fee was surprising 🤔 EDIT (re-reading previous comments, missed the first time as still knackered) - I didn't encounter any misogynistic behaviour / language / abuse during my time there. Was it the best immersion event I have been on? No. Was it more interesting and varied than a regular skirmish day? Yes. Would I rather Sterling ran Op ACRE II? Oh defo yes.

Really cool build - not sure about the riser on a riser? Are you a giraffe?!

Are the new gears thicker and the sector gear trapping the tappet plate between it and the gearbox shell? I would check that the tappet plate is sliding freely with no gears installed and the gearbox screwed shut - sounds like that should be fine. Next I would look to remove shims from UNDER the sector gear and add them to the top, fit the tappet plate and seal up the gear box and see if it returns ok (don't need the other gears in for this step) If that does work you will need to - either shim based on the thickness of the tappet plate OR sand down the face of the tappet plate to make it a fraction thinner and free to move with the "correct" shimming on the sector.

I think you misunderstand, I am saying that I did not choose the name of the company running the event, not that I was keeping the name secret 😁

Well I didn’t name the company or the event so 🤷🏽 They seem to have a good rep for themed events and Gloucester Prison is a fun site. Also you aren’t going to be there so it just got better 😂

Excited to be able to make this one as it has been too long since the last event (Op ACRE from Stirling Airsoft....also at Glos Prison) and I love game play with a bit more to it than just 30-40mins of pew-pew and then faffing in the safe zone for almost as long. Still weighing up the primary - M733 AEG (with bodged handguard - Gorilla Glue and Milliput to the rescue!) or the MWS (with heavy, real capacity mags...but RECOIL!) and which chest rig to take. USP with lots of mags is a given for the up close and personal nature of the buildings. Very little comms from the organisers, guess there will be an info dump on the day and I can panic program my UV5R before kick off. Got my gang colour t-shirt and 0.28g BBs sorted and waiver signed.