RostokMcSpoons

.. or .. buy another cheap sight and get a sight protector from Red Dot Engineering on eBay. Quite a few of us use them, for a tenner each they're very good. I've got one of them on all my recent purchases. (On my older kit I bought polycarb discs and wedged 'em in, but the RDE solutions are much better)

You might find my thread useful... to cut the very long story short I changed the spring, nub, and hop - but not the barrel - and I got a settled velocity, but only a small improvement in accuracy. But the accuracy wasn't bad anyway. Maybe I'll get that ZCI barrel, but my last skirmishes with the gun have been excellent (I was getting hits with some speculative shots that I though were out of range) so I don't particularly feel the need to change it at the moment.

FTFY @EDcase Personally I've bought a few parts of my kit three times over, but I do have a bit of a reputation (well deserved) for trawling through the Bargain Bins in the hope of finding something "good enough". Ehhhh, sometimes it works, but often it doesn't. Just try not to make expensive mistakes that you can't sell on (or quietly hide in the loft!)

Welcome!

The Warheads are £85+ aren't they? I'll be better off spending that money on fixing my other guns... so I'll leave mine alone - having a toasty motor will save me a few quid on those chemical hand-warmers through the winter

Hah! I'll have you know I do NOT sleep with my M906C, I sleep with my recently acquired Cyma M14, as an homage to Kubrick's FMJ! And so I can do the Rifleman's Creed properly. So there! I must admit the last time I had a plinking session with mine the motor temp got quite toasty too. Maybe it's because I'm usually running around with gloves on, firing short bursts in a more tactical way, that I hadn't noticed it before. So maybe it always been prone to that.. or maybe something is out of whack? I'm using an 11.1v battery which is against the recommendation of course. I'll be interested to hear how you get on with your motor change!

Ah fugggehdabbbahdid, I appreciate that, no offence taken. It's just a discussion on a forum that took a slightly odd turn.

Blimey, since when did people become so wilfully obtuse...? If you need me to spell out what I mean by 'greater good' then I will, but... Really?

For your consideration...

I just checked the SARB again, it's now 20 minutes slow. I think it's fair to say there were no gnat's cocks in the amount of swing I put on the regulator 🤣

I haven't tried the iphone-only app mentioned before, yet, maybe that'll be the better option ($10 pcm I think). The poor old SARB definitely needs some love, I may not have wound it up fully but its still ticking today... it just happens to be 12 minutes slow already!

Yeah, but I think we all know what it's supposed to mean

I've had a quick look, presumably I need to pay for the Pro version to get actually timing rather than the 'good/bad' readouts? I can see it works though, probably well enough to make the watch wearable again

I nearly went with airsofting as a good excuse to buy a proper field watch, maybe even a Hamilton Khaki, but then thought how upset I'd be if it got shot, so went the AliExpress bargain-bin route instead, and got one of these: ... which cost £8.97!

Class music there, @ak2m4 I was playing along to that on my geeeeetar (via ChordU.com) at lunchtime. My playlist is a melange of prog rock... Porcupine Tree, Genesis, Rush, Marillion, and classic indie stuff from the 80s onwards. But dearest to my heart... Cardiacs. Normal people hate 'em.

That Kello app isn't available for my Android phone, so I'll try it later today on the wife's phone. Thanks for the tip

Ahhhh cool thread I hadn't spotted before either! Loving those Seiko chronos, I've had a soft spot for all things Seiko for many years, I quite often wear my dad's SQ 4004 Quartz that he bought aboard the SS Canberra back in the late 70's. I've got a SARB035 which is a lovely thing, but desperately needs to get regulated. It was about 30 seconds off a day, I decided to 'improve' it, and naturally enough it now runs at 5 minutes off a day 🤣 I'm sure I could actually sort it with some more trial-and-error, but in the absence of a time-grapher, I'll just get the jewellers to sort it for me, some day. I'm not wearing many of my collection these days. I sprung for a Tudor Black Bay Pro recently which is a cracking watch. But no sooner had I bought that than I got "The Call" from the Rolex dealer (after a year and a half on the waiting list!), and a few weeks ago I picked up my grail watch... Oyster Perpetual with blue dial. Wearing it every day, it's not an investment piece. I absolutely adore it, it's just so beautifully finished, and perfectly proportioned.

Yup I'm with you. For a bunch of reasons, but mostly because I'd like to feel fairly certain I'm not going to get shot in a robbery or by the police, by accident or design. The freedom to have some fun with firearms is something I'm prepared to give up both for 'the big picture' and 'the greater good'. If I ever go to Texas I'll be down the range blasting with away with anything cool I can get my hands on though

Hiya! Special Ops nr Olney / Milton Keynes are building a CQB environment right now (and are still planning on re-opening their woodland site)

Speedbird's right, but thinking MOAR BARREL = BETTER PEW is a logical thing to think (and I think excusable to the point where 'patently incorrect' is a tad harsh) It just doesn't work out like that in the wild world of airsoft. At short-ish range my TM Hi Capa pistol shoots as accurately as many of my rifles, but the list of reasons for that 3" barrel performing as well as ~10" barrels in the other guns... is long and varied.

(This may be a sign I have too much time on my hands)

Me too! ... and it brings up an important point: if you're more in to the gun pr0n aspect of airsoft where the realism is a cool thing that really gives you the 'fizz' when you're racking the slide, then you'll be looking for an all-metal pistol for the full effect. But if you actually want your pew-pew to pew and then pew some more - especially when it's cold outside - then the plastic slide of a TM has already impressed me with its ability. Previously my cheap all-metal pistol had just became a paperweight and a waste of gas when the temperature dipped.

Now why didn't I spot that? Because I didn't scroll down very far... Anyway, thanks - good info! Never underestimate the likelihood of 'shitty' ;D Knowing my luck, my office will have an infestation of ants and they'll do a dirty protest in there!

I've got a Parker Hale cleaning rod with the pull-through attachment, but that's always a slight faff to find some cotton and cut it to size etc... so I thought I'd pick up a mop and a brush from good ol' Ant Supplies. https://www.ant-supplies.uk/maintenance-and-care/uk-spec-rod-attachments/british-thread-rifle-rod-fittings.html Question is... what size(s)? They have 0.22" or 0.243" (and 6mm for a couple of 'em). The mop will have to be 0.243", it's the only size they've got in stock - is that ok? For a nylon brush should I go with slightly too small, or slightly too large?

Sleeping position, as approved by USMC. No need for weapon storage... Doesn't everyone do the Rifleman's Creed at bed-time? Or is it just me?