RostokMcSpoons

I bought the line from HPA UK, and it's fine - but when I tried to fill up my Dye LT bottle, the darned thing leaked. Turns out I mangled the o-ring (or it was old and just split) when I swapped over to the Balystyk regulator. So I need a new o-ring. HPA UK seem to have a standard £7 p&p charge, so that's something I can't stomach on a 50p item. Is it a standard size that I can just find one in my local B&Q? (it seems to be ~10mm inner diameter, judging from the bit I fished out of my bin) Or could I buy a selection box off Amazon? (At least then I'd have a bunch of them for my outlay)

The fitting on the right is the tail coming off the magazine adapter... I presume I'll be aiming for about 80psi into the gat, so a 200psi line would be fine. I have a proper chunky metal line coming off my own scuba tank, so don't need another whip line... I think! Watching YT vidz (which of course I should have done earlier) looks like a simple line with quick disconnects on each end will do just fine. I perhaps need a key for the pressure regulator, though I can turn it just with my thumb pressing down on it so far... Not sure if that'll be the same once it's pressurised, so best get one?

I need to connect my Airtac adapter for my VFC HK416 GBBR to my air bottle... which now has a Balystyk 800 regulator mounted on it So I need to buy a line. I'd rather spend as little as possible, but will invest in something that gives me a clear advantage in performance or usability over the cheapo option. Any pointers or specific recommendations would be very welcome!

My boonie hat with a drawstring chin strap thing always seems to get caught on twigs and undergrowth more often, so my 'sprint' (oh I wish) from spawn at game start ends up getting curtailed rather abruptly 😋 I'm probably just wearing it wrong, but yeah I stick to my camo baseball cap, which also has a bit more 'form' to it and therefore feels a tiny bit better at taking the sting out of the headshots My mesh lower face mask has ear protection, consider getting either type of headgear with the fold down flaps if you don't have that. "Flaps". Yub-yub wibble etc

He really is taking the pith 😋

Being one of them 'earlier adopter' types, I was early in on interwebz back when being 'Roscoe' was enough to stand out on a chat list. When all the 'Johnny-come-latelies' started filling things up, I changed to Atomic Rooster as my online nom de guerre. Turns out I'd subliminally picked that up from the name of a Prog Rock band (my genre of choice, and yet I don't think I've ever heard any of their music). Still, other Atomic Roosters appeared occasionally, so had to go to something else... I think I've got the lightest touch of Tourette's syndrome, and used to say "Spooooons" a lot (pre Wetherspoons!), which highly amused my boss at the time, and so Rostok McSpoons became my new forum / gamer tag. Been using it for many. many years. I saw that old boss in a pub meet-up for the first time in about 20 years recently. As soon we saw each other.... "Spooooooons!"

Is that the flaw where you must always load a magazine into the pistol with the slide locked back, to prevent the nozzle getting bumped and damaged? If that's the only thing wrong with it, I might still get one (some day)

That KJW KP09 is a handsome beastie, that'll go some way to scratching some of my Browning Hi-Power itch some day

I've heard really good things about the mk45's abilities so it's undoubtedly a great choice for a skirmisher's sidearm, but I'd argue (possibly against my own instincts) that, if you might only end up garden plinking, a more realistic metal slide pistol would serve you better. For reference I've got 3 pistols, a TM D.O.R (hi capa) which is my sidearm of choice, winter and summer. It's great. And a cheap Glock, and a cheap M93. In terms of 'personality' I'd probably choose the metal slide M93 even though it doesn't shoot in the cold! Call it a combination of 'heft' and my liking of the 93's aesthetics. (I remain on the lookout for a TM 93, as I expect it might do everything well)

Apologies 😣😋😂 I'll rephrase that, "I'm running out of physical space for my gun collection"

If that's a thinly-veiled statement of interest, I'd be open to the idea of selling mine (though it still needs a tweak on the single shot mode) 🤗 (Too many guns in my collection and haven't played in months, I've been meaning to thin it down a tad)

Classic tobacco sunburst... 🤗

SG's are proper good rock guitars 🤩 👍that cherry one would be my pick!

Well if we can have a Watches thread (which I like), then let's have one for geeeeeeeetars too, as they can lovely things to behold and meddle with. I am a pleased-as-punch recent purchaser of this: PRS SE CE 24 in Blood Orange If only I could play it as well as it deserves! (This is my 5th guitar, purchased over a span of nearly 40 years, and I've only just got vaguely to grips with rhythm. Lead is a complete no-no. I suck!) PRS really do a fantastic job on build quality, even on their cheaper guitars (like this one). And it plays so easily, it's really nicely set up straight from the box. I might invest in a set of locking tuners on it, the 9 gauge strings are shifting tune as my 'office' room is a bit of a sweatbox at the moment. And those skinny strings are slicing up the ends of my fingers a bit - though that might be because I'm just playing it too much Anyway, share some pics of your beauties

So I've been running with a small bottle for my Tippmann, with no regulator as it does all the clever stuff stepping down the pressure within it's own system. Now I've got an airtac adapter for my vfc, I've got to fit the regulator I bought a while ago. I could just connect the bottle and fire a gazillion shots on the Tippmann, until it's empty, but that seems like some unnecessary wear and tear on the gun. Is there an easy way to release the pressure? And any handy hints on fitting the regulator?

So I've been running with a small bottle for my Tippmann, with no regulator as it does all the clever stuff stepping down the pressure within it's own system. Now I've got an airtac adapter for my vfc, I've got to fit the regulator I bought a while ago. I could just connect the bottle and fire a gazillion shots on the Tippmann, until it's empty, but that seems like some unnecessary wear and tear on the gun. Is there an easy way to release the pressure? And any handy hints on fitting the regulator?

In my limited experience of cqb, accuracy counts for a lot. People are carefully peeking corners (if they're not jumping from one bit of cover to another) so being able to hit a < 6" square area at 15m is what you want to do, repeatedly and often. Or just have fun blasting away with a tracer on your gbb, the choice is yours. (Buying my tracer unit was a big improvement in the experience, because blasting away with no knowledge of where the bb's are going in the dimly lit interior was not so great)

My favourite gun to shoot is my vfc 416 GBBR. My favourite gun to shoot people is my DE 906 AEG So it depends what mood or situation I'm in. If my team is struggling and I need to nail the enemy with accurate weight of fire, the aeg wins every time. But the more 'snipey' and realistic feel of the GBBR is sooooo satisfying. I've just invested in an airtac hpa adapter to see if I can find myself in a good middle ground.

Hi ho, you going quiet has coincided with me being on hiatus on medical advice... Which I've now decided to ignore. So hopefully see you on the battlefield at Spec Ops soon 😎. I might be going Sunday morning. Depends on whether I'm still alive, my wife might notice a guitar getting delivered on Saturday, and then.... 💩💩💩

Hiya! Yeah, I've had much the same sort of issue, my latest gat shoots quite a bit higher than my aiming point at the moment. What sort of range are you zeroing at? How much hop have you got on? Do bear in mind that our toys have different ballistic properties to normal guns - enough hop dialed in, and the BB will lift quite a bit compared to a normal trajectory. You might find the vertical zero is fine at 30-40m, but quite off at 10-15m, unless you take some of the hop off. Or indeed vice-versa, if you're shooting lower than the aiming point, it might just be a lack of hop.

I was up in my attic a couple of weeks ago. Stiflingly hot... I was more worried about the high humidity. Most of my guns are stored in padded bags or the original styrofoam boxes, but there are a couple that aren't. Should I be worried about them?

My G&G feels very, very nice but it uses non standard mags for its differently-placed feed tube. So no M4 mag adapter.

Do be very careful not to spill any brake fluid on that blue paint, it might spoil the finish Edit: unintentionally correct advice 😌🥴😅