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Thanks @Keldon, useful info Hey @Cannonfodder, @Dan Robinson I might go along too, see you there perhaps

It's all there for a reason! (Well, mostly) My plastic bin has quite a few holes in it, for ... "reasons"

I had a cunning thought based on the word 'needle' - I found a thick needle and pushed / hammered it into the external valve hole - and it gripped enough to let me spin it with no effort whatsoever Yay!

I had a leaky gas mag on my VFC HK416 during the last skirmish day, I've finally got around to taking a look at it. And wish I hadn't, I've made matters worse The leak appeared to be from the fill valve, so I did what any normal bloke would do... I tightened it. The leak got worse so I tightened it some more - and then it failed. Looks like I've sheared it through the thread.. Which means (I guess) half the valve is now in the body of the mag and I'll need to extract it somehow. Any hints? (Or is it going to be easy and I shouldn't be asking dumb questions?) Should I go with one of these: https://www.fire-support.co.uk/product/guarder-magazine-gas-injection-valve-pack-of-two-for-kjwevfc as a good replacement? Edit: I took the mag apart as I realised that I needed to get some silicone grease on the o-rings and gaskets so they wouldn't irreparably dry out, so they're now stored in plastic bags ready for when the new fill valve is here. This meant I could see what the fill valve looks like from inside the mag: Sorry for the shit focus. The gouge marks on the barrel of the valve are my first attempts to undo from inside with a pair of needle-nose pliers. I can see it's moving, but the tiny room I have to work in means I can shift it about a twentieth of a turn at a time. This will be painfully slow work! I might pop out and buy some more svelte pliers in the hope I can turn it a bit more on each go, but really I need a more cunning method of unwinding it!

Ahhhh, is that the secret to making it work better? To be fair it usually does make a decent edge on the flat and smooth parts, it's where it gets tricky on stippled surfaces or transitions in geometry that it sometimes fails. Anyway, I've got the vinyl mask on the way soon, so whatever gets painted next will be done with that

I'm still carrying the hit marks from an HPA M4 pistol build that got me on Sunday Don't do that 😋😂

Haha I've just bought a 904g as a donor gun (spending more money than I'd liked in the process)... If only you could have made the offer a week ago 😭😂😋 Well, I'm still interested, the 904g can be a full spare gun rather than just a shell sitting in my loft, so please pm me with prices. Please just bear in mind I'm a jobless hobo at the moment 🥴

There's money to be made there! I downloaded it to take a look (and then did sod-all with it, tbf)

I'll take the AeroPro (happy to do F&F if you are), just let me know the p&p cost and ping me your paypal details PS Thanks for making me feel slightly better about the mess on my desk

What constitutes a sensible offer? ☺️ Yeah if you'd posted this a couple of weeks ago, you'd have got a sale regardless...

Me? Yeah, well I'm still 'between contracts' so essentially skint when it comes to 'luxury purchases'. Given I can run my VFC 416 to scratch my GBBR itch, then 'luxury' is what it comes down to. (Plus the Spec Ops CQB site still hasn't opened, so the need for a teeny-tiny not-a-pistol isn't really there yet) I'm currently playing quite a lot of Battlefield 2042 where the MP9 is a nice gun to use - if that becomes an influence, well, I'd want an actual MP9

New review of this little gat... It definitely does look nicer with a foregrip attached...

Changing the hop rubber and nub was the first 'tech' I did in airsoft that didn't break my gun 😋 It's very easy, but we can walk you through it if you need help or just confirmation you're doing it right I have the Maple Leaf Macaron 50deg and Omega nub in place in mine, and they do a great job... The gun shoots accurately and lifts 0.32s (the heaviest I've tried) to a decent distance ... estimating 50-60m?. I've just bought Speedbird's 904g as a donor for my 906c which has a failing Falcon unit. He put in the zci barrel and hop unit, so I'll be able to do a small test to see whether that provides a noticeable improvement over my stock barrel and hop. (I did an accuracy test comparison of the ML + Omega against the stock rubber and nub, and to be honest didn't notice any great difference... But then I was only shooting at ~15m which didn't give it the chance to show the improvement in range. It'll be interesting to see if I can detect a difference with the better barrel at the short range, or I need to get it out on the field - though it will then come down to subjective 'feel' rather than objective empirical measurement of grouping)

The new type daily contacts are much more flexible and comfortable than any cheap cosmetic lenses. I'm sure a local optician can let you have a trial pair And you only forget to take them out when drunk 🥴. But I survived doing that a few times in my youth 😋

Good (ish) day out at Special Ops. In fact I overheard a few people saying it was one of the best they'd had. They were all on the other team 😂 Yet another day when the numbers were balanced but the gameplay wasn't. The non-armband team won all but one of the games. They showed good teamwork and thoroughly deserved it. I didn't do enough to lift our team from a rather passive attitude, and out team did seem a bit light on experience. But some fun was still to be had! This was the first game in nearly two years when I didn't have my trusty Double Eagle (thanks to the failing control unit 😭), so I took VFC HK416 GBBR TM AUG High Cycle TM 5.1 DOR Pistol On arrival at the site it was clear there were plenty of players, in spite of NAF, but not many marshalls (because of NAF / holidays), so I (very loosely) became a player / marshal for the day In the morning I played with the gas gun. I'm down to a last few 0.40g BBs so I decided to save them for my sniper rifle, and went to 0.28s. They're just too light, really. The gas rifle is not fantastically accurate at the best of times, with the 0.28s they seem to go all over the place. The 0.40s are prohibitively expensive given my finances but it seems I'll have to bite that particular bullet all the same! During the second round I managed to lose a gas mag. Not happy given the £50+ price tag, but thankfully a retracing of my steps during a pause, and I found it quite quickly. Phew! However I no longer trust my cheap polymer mag pouches to retain the heavy mags, if I decide to actually run at any point. A rare event, but it does happen The usual games - zombies, clear the minefield / find the items, nothing too complicated due to a large number of first time players and the lack of marshals, it worked ok. I had further problems, one of my 4 mags developed a leak, and I got through enough shots (needing to switch to full auto to counter the lack of accuracy) that my gas mags were running out of gas, and my gas cans were getting empty too), basically I decided to go to the AUG for the afternoon. Which I did... The extra weight of suppressing fire meant I could get a bit more pushy at the front line so it went better (and at one point I broke up the other team charging up the hill from Ping Ping with a long burst that got a good few of them and stopped the assault in its tracks). Still couldn't break the other team's stranglehold, excepting one game where we beat them on time, but hit taking was fine. Oh except for the ghillie guy who I shot square in the stomach from 15m, who - I'll give him the benefit of the doubt - didn't feel it because his suit was quite loose. I made up for that by sneaking up on him and shooting him in the back at point-blank range 😅 The weather held up pretty well, lunch was good, and everyone was friendly. Looking forward to two weeks time - and hopefully having my Double Eagle fixed, or at least an alternate DE to use (thanks @Speedbird_666!)

I am a happy contact lens wearer... Well mostly happy. I get great vision from daily disposable toric lenses, in fact better than my glasses for distance. But they're an absolute nightmare now my eyes have got old - I can't see anything close up. It's not so much a problem in the safe zone, I bring along a pair of my wife's reading glasses 🤓 but out on the field I'm buggered if I need to do any tech stuff. Carlos knew I had a tool kit and asked me to fix a rental gun, but I couldn't do it because I couldn't even tell what head the screw had on it 🥺. So yeah, interested in the idea of keeping my specs on... But surely the extra layer of glass / plastic close to the face is going to be even more prone to fogging up? Does that make a fan 'mandatory'?

Can it hop then properly? I.e. can you get enough hop so they lift at the end of their flight? If they're not then step down to 0.25, or go get a new hop rubber 👍 0.28s are a decent compromise between weight and cost so if they're flying nicely you're golden tbh. I do use 0.32s too, but you won't notice a night-and-day difference there.

Very nice Toruk! I'll have to look into that hydro dripping

Yes the Perun is a bit cheaper than the Titan, and has the program-by-trigger functionality. Seems good, but presumably I might need to finesse the gearbox to fit it? If and when you do sell the 904, please give me a heads-up, I might well be interested in it as a donor / experimental backup

Shame I'm going to have to wait 4+ months to get my hands on it regardless

ooOOOOOOOOoooh! just what I need, Evike, eh?

Cheers @Fatboy40 much appreciated. I've had a reply back from Will at Spec Ops, he's said he's not had any problems with control units failing so basically he's unsure what could be wrong. He'll take a look at it for me, but I as I can't spot an obvious problem then I think that'll be a waste of his time. A Gate Titan at £90 is a bit of a fiscal bummer at this point, I think I'll have to manfully struggle on with the other gnus in my collection until my situation improves, but at least it is, as you say, a drop-in replacement. A tiny bit of soldering I could make a mess of, but otherwise reasonably straightforward. @Skullchewer could you ask someone at Red Alert if they've had the same symptoms with any of theirs? The symptoms are: 1) Super-hot motor ... leading to 2) Double beep occasionally on spamming semi-auto 3) Full auto fires 3 or 4 before stopping (might be beeping too) If they have any boneyard examples with a working control unit then I'd be happy to negotiate a price ... cheers!

Yeah I guess there could be a dry solder joint in the FCS with all that heat but there's nothing visible, no scorch marks from a burnt out item. As for the selector, I dunno, it was a tight fit before, but it's too stable now to have just changed with a bit of heat. A bit more levering and maybe a polish on the inside and it'll be ok. I've sent off a contact form message to Double Eagle asking what might be wrong and where I can buy a replacement unit if I need one... And I sent a message to Will at Spec Ops. Maybe he'll know as they have 904's as rentals. And maybe he'll have a boneyard gun I get the control unit from.

A somewhat bizarre issue has arisen during re-assembly this morning: The gearbox is now a stupidly tight fit in the lower receiver, to the point where the fire selector is entirely binding up on the inside of the receiver, and won't budge from 'safe' when everything is back in place. Now, it has to be said that muggins here did at one point try to knock out a pin that's actually fake so a punch was applied to the outside of the shell and tapped with a hammer a couple of times, before the penny dropped. However I didn't smash the hammer, the lower receiver still looks absolutely straight, and it was a tight fit anyway. Maybe I've budged it by some tiny amount though. Any good ideas on how to improve matters? I did have a quick go with a flat file but frankly it just makes the receiver look a mess on the inside without really shifting much material. I do have a cheapo dremel but frankly that's always seemed to do sod-all too when I've tried it before. Or I could try to widen the top of the receiver by using some wedges to lever it apart - but that seems a bit drastic and with potential for drastically buggering it? What say you, oh Great Hive Mind? Edit: In the absence of any answers, and any patience on my part, I went looking for my Dremel (which I'd put away as it seemed to be shit), couldn't find it, so instead levered the shell away from the in-situ gearbox with a screwdriver. It loosened it up ever so slightly think - the metal is just about sturdy enough to resist my fairly gentle efforts - I don't want it to break. Gives me some confidence my hammering on a pin punch didn't bend it. It's still really binding up though. Anyway, I decided that before I spend more time on it that I'd test the electrical side of the equation with the gearbox out of the receiver by plugging in a battery, and connecting the motor. I didn't know if it'd be a useful test, but as it turns out - it was. It's doing the same thing as before: Good vibration on plugging in the battery, but full auto won't spin continuously, and spamming in semi-auto gives me the two beep error every now and again. Bugger. So it looks like the excessively hot motor fried the circuitry (or the dying circuit caused the excessively hot motor).

These things are seriously light aren't they? Before I became a jobless hobo I was thinking of getting one for my daughter / as a CQB backup. The other 'advantage' is I believe it comes with a medium length motor that I could 'borrow' for my SIG. (That issue due purely to me not wanting to spend £45 on an ex-boneyard gun. But I've sourced a cheap one since, so no need now)