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They are. I picked up three Guarder bodies as an experiment. Added Guarder outlet valves and 9Ball routers. Postives • Very lightweight. You can really feel the difference. • Look cool • Guarder bottoms are gas-tight and have silent fill inlet valves Negatives • there seems to be a tiny gap where the feed lips sit and every now and again the bb’s fail to feed. I’m going to scratch my chin for a while and then fill in the gap with some JB weld. So in summary, if you’re after fancy, lightweight mags that don’t feed properly they’re brilliant Im sure I can get them feeding but I feel like I shouldn’t have to for the asking price

And I’m just gonna wade in here... Watched a few KM videos and thought “this guy has got pretending to be a bush down to an artform” Watched a few more and realised “this guy’s got a attitude problem” If he’s not shouting at marshalls in the states he’s giving someone grief elsewhere. Bullied at school? of this whole kicked debacle I actually feel a bit sorry for him. Firstly, it’s his income and these are difficult times. Secondly, he strikes me as being a bit pathetic as a bloke and he clearly needs the Mustang persona to get through his day to day. I suspect if you called him a c£&@ to his face he’d carry that around for a long, long time instead of brush it off like a proper fella should Ambivalence embodied

Parts bin special...

At least the cat’s still alive!

My wife and I were looking at our joint account and we were amazed at how little we’d spent over Christmas. With almost perfect synchronicity an £1100 pet insurance claim was refused...

Incredibly professional bloke. He’s even offered to replace the receiver if he knackers it! Assuming this all goes to plan, I’m definitely going to be asking him to have a crack at some other stuff for me. I’ll definitely ask him if he’s open to more jobs from this crowd, as you say it could be a decent earner for him. Seeing the sample, I’m really looking forwards to progressing this. Once the engraver is finished, Mark at FMJUK is next and that deep, dark blue Cerakote is going to look sexy as hell!

Sample from the engraver looks great, any issues you guys can see?

Deep down, all I really want is for Luke to call me a C£&t when I get to play at the new Zed adventures site

Well that escalated quickly... Was browsing Eliteshooting and emailed Mike for a 0.40S&W 5.1 barrel. Ended getting another TM 5.1 frame and a black Infinity slide

The engraver has some mock-ups for me on Alu sheet before going to town on the actual receiver. Interestingly, he phoned me earlier to ask me to bring him some form of letter to accept any legal culpability of him working on the receiver. His concern lay in someone “me” trying to make a toy gun more realistic and the potential for disaster that had in the world at large. Hands up, good guy for being careful! I’m seeing him in the morning to give him a waiver and show him some details of my local site, UKARA, have a waffle about what Airsoft is etc if anyone has seen the French comedy “diner du contes” you’ll know what he’s in for

Duct tape must have cost something too?

Cheers Steve, Your black and gold Infinity looks smart as! I’ve gone Gold slide, gold controls and black everything else for my BC4.3, what did you go for?

There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with the Nov brand but it’s basically just externally tweaked OEM stuff sold at a premium price with fairly poor quality control and wildly varying customer support. Even after being disappointed by the products, I’m still amazed by Chris as a sales person. Snow to an Eskimo as they say!

Bugger me! Got bored two nights ago and bought some stuff from AIP, namely a couple of hop units and guide rods. Theyve already landed at Heathrow

Too right! Yours has been one of those voices over the years that’s clearly HAD all the issues as opposed to having read something 3rd hand on the internet. Advice like that is always priceless and you and sittingduck are largely to thank for the fact that my wankerguns actually work. GBB’s though, this is new to me. The brands are different and the informed are far more difficult to find. It seems funny at this point that the part that works reliably is the same that shipped originally with the Novristch!

God this rabbit hole goes deep. So, Guarder parts aren’t quite the high-tolerance parts I had imagined. Three mags with Guarder feed lips have occasional feed issues with two Bb’s wedging themselves at the base of the lip. I’ve stuck a KJ lip in and voila, problem solved. At £3.79 a go for the KJW’s I can’t be bothered to sort the Guarder ones out. Hopefully, Kyle at HCH will have an Advanced Frame for me at some point in the next couple of weeks so I’ve got something new to play with

Just remember to have a backup sidearm in case your secondary misbehaves

With £500 you may even be able to afford some of Avenger’s second hand stuff (Looks around, sees this isn’t Mack’s)

Rummaging around in the effing bushes trying to find it, whilst still being shot at... yup, been there!

There’s something immensely satisfying about a slick switch to a secondary and getting a cheeky kill every now and again. There’s something immensely embarrassing realising your mag has leaked or your safety is on and you get absolutely showered by the rental kid you had the drop on. I love mine but they are completely not essential

If you’re stuck for lube, your local Halfords should have some Teflon or silicone grease for the gears and definitely some silicone oil for the o rings. Less is more What did you pick up?

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You might find an M100 pushes you slightly over. The bearings on the spring guide and piston head act to compress the spring more and will add a few extra FPS. You’ve got a decent length inner barrel on the E7 that could also bump up the output if Specna has used the correct volume cylinder In a perfect world, An M100 SHOULD be 100m/s or about 330fps. The bearings could add enough to bump you frustratingly over the limit if the airseal is good. Some brands springs are a little hot, some a little less. Best place to check is ak2m4 as he actually tests the stuff that he receives. He’s also carrying inexpensive chronographs now so you won’t have to guess the velocity Ali

The Specna Edge series, the Cheese lover’s choice. The gearbox is made of the finest French Brie and is soft and malleable. The bearings are made of a harder cheese, pecorino I think and are prone to exploding. The gearset is made of a good strong cheddar and is therefore less likely, but still known to shatter at the axles. Externally, meh. I ended up spraying mine. After repairing it of course. The non existent airseals caused by the cylinder holes being so rough and unpolished that they’ll actually slice the O-rings in two mean that’s you may actually do better in a game just taking a bag of BB’s and chucking handfuls at enemy players than taking a Specna Edge. I hope for their sake they’ve improved the QC but I’m not going near that tyrefire of a brand again. Swish social media presentations don’t make up for assembly issues unfortunately

There’s a good rule of thumb on this forum worth sticking to - If it’s your only pew, leave it alone. If you’ve got a few bits and pieces, why not have a crack at it. The ICS L85 gearbox is a piece of cake to work on all controls are housed externally and the spring can be inserted after closing the box. The variable spring tension system makes fine tuning the power easy as pie, just make sure you’ve got a chronograph to check output. The receiver has bags of space for a rewire straight from motor to fore grip and the connection to the trigger contacts is a standard 2.8mm spade (might be a 4mm, been a while) so it’s almost perfectly suited to a Gate nano/merf/warfet. The task gets more complex the higher the rof you want to achieve. The forum’s other rule of twenty is plenty neatly avoids almost all of the issues with high speed builds self destructing, although if you want to pursue a true wanker gun build SittingDuck is a seemingly bottomless source of wisdom on how to unfuck things If you just want to nudge the ROF up a bit, you may find that using 11.1v does just that. If you want a bit more, the next place to investigate would either be motor or gearset. The ICS motor pinions always had a tendency to not play particularly well with others so you may have to change both. The ICS compression parts (piston head/cylinder/cylinder head/nozzle) were excellent in terms of seal and shouldn’t need any more than lubricant to work very well. What’s the ideal outcome?