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TM HC was fun (if a little short ranged - I'll try a new hop bucking), and my JG S-552 is working (though wheezy on anything less than 11.1v due to the shagged motor and maybe some shimming issues), so I'll be buying some extra mags. I will need to be able to run these non-STANAG mags without changing out my whole belt. Yesterday's game showed the SA80 pouches weren't great.... as they weren't in the prime spots towards the front of the belt, I couldn't really seem them with my current mask / goggle setup (which I'm not intending on changing). I could pull the mags by feel, but trying to stuff them back in when emptied was a non-runner, as the soft material collapsed. Falling back on stuffing mags into zipped chest pockets lead to some of the most non-Tactical reloads known to man A workaround could be a dump pouch at the back, but I'll go back to looking at replacement pouches.

Good day at Special Ops. 80 people there meant the games inevitably ended up with some stalemates due to the weight of suppressing fire, but the marshals did a good job of encouraging, and if that didn't work then even moving some extra cover in place, or simply declaring an objective taken. I noticed the teenagers weren't very keen on trekking back to respawns, they'd just walk 20m from the front line and then go back again, whereas this old man with his arthritic knees and chocolate ankles was toiling backwards and forwards. Oh well. Had a couple of hero moments when pushing forward, had two rifles (two! count 'em! two!) working and used, and when the battery gave out in the TM Aug HC, right when I was pushed up on the objective area, I even pulled the pistol out. I managed to try a couple of HPA guns. So yeah, an Evo Scorpion with the necessary bits at several hundred quid might be a bit of a big bill to swallow, but it really was nice to shoot. The guys were impressed with how good the DE M906 was, especially for the price. The TM got some compliments too (mostly no doubt for Not Being Another M4, I'm sure :)) I think our team won every single round through the day.

I empty their boneyard section whenever there's anything good in there, so just buy cheap stuff, but Paul has always been helpful. I'd happily spend on a full price aeg.

Cheers guys, good suggestions. I'm going to play the skirmish tomorrow with a couple of the SA80 pouches on the left, and the two displaced plastic pouches on the right side, see how the picks and the gun get on. .. If the gun isn't really the thing for my site (because of the typicalTM 270fps) then there's no need for the new pouches. I'll make a call on Monday

Infrastructure? Isn't that clicking buttons on an Azure dashboard, these days? I code in BASIC. And I'm not talking about that new-fangled Visual Basic malarkey either...

Roger's showing off his modern technology. He's got a rubber duck as a Pair Programming companion AND he writes in a language which uses curly brackets! What about you? (sorry for the off-topicness)

That's not fair, you've got Advanced Mode enabled!

Very true, in my IT job we consider that to be the 'Cardboard Man Pair Programming' approach Given the context, explain it to this chap:

Yeah, as a man with 4 guns not working properly (after 'upgrades' and 'fixes'), and a couple of working guns (either completely or mostly left unmolested), I can agree with leaving it alone. Especially as G&Gs are quite known for being reliable. Keep that as your safe fall-back, and go buy a second hand gun for your project. Teching is fun, but can be hard. There's no guarantee you'll have the gun back in a good state in time for your next skirmish. It's a bit sad when you have to leave a gun at home and rent one

Cheers guys, those suggestions all look good, especially the Templars. The thing is, I'm still a tight-wad at heart, and I've noticed that Novritsch are selling the green pouches at a mere 10 Euros a piece (because they're discontinuing that colour), and they do seem to be everything I need (I like the inserts which can alter the height / grip of the mags in the pouches). As I've also had my eye on their hi-capa pistol pouches with a similar system, so I might go ahead and buy them all together. I'll have another look tomorrow

Admin / mod, can you zap this thread? I had a CloudFlare error on Submit and submitted again.

So I've got my belt rig all set up nicely for M4 mags for my 3 STANAG guns. They're only cheap Chinese plastic pouches, a fiver each I think but they work ok. I do prefer the solid-shelled pouches for my tactical reloads. And then I go and do something silly and buy an AUG. And the mags don't quite fit in the pouches I know I can remove / loosen those elastic bands, the problem is in the other direction, if you get my drift. I've got a couple of SA80 mag pouches that will stretch and accommodate any of my mags, and with the bungee cord over the top even my AK mags won't fall out. They're also dirt cheap. So they're actually very good in many ways - but they're not quite 'it' for speed reloads. I could therefore swap out two of the plastic pouches with those and I'm sort-of 'good to go' - I'm most realistically going to be carrying 3 hi-caps for the AUG, so one in the pocket / gun, and a couple on the belt would be ok. But never miss a good (or even bad) excuse to buy more / better gear. Soooooooo....... Are there any good mag pouches that will hold just about anything, allow for fast reloads, won't have me losing mags every time I fall over a log, AND DON'T COST A BLEEDIN' FORTUNE. Cos I'll buy four of the buggers if I'm going to do a proper job. Shockingly enough, the Novritsch ones are pretty damned close to what I'm looking for, but maybe there's something better out there? https://eu.novritsch.com/product/assault-rifle-magazine-pouch-gen2/

Took this off @Asomodai's hands .... TM High Cycle pushing out ~25rps. Oh dear, broke the '20 is plenty' rule, making me a hypocrite. In my defence, m'lud, I was getting owned up by the HPA'ers last time. This won't give me the range but at least it'll compete on rate of fire. I might stick an amplifier on it, see whether it freaks people out Edit: Got to say this has the best fake bolt action of any AEG I've meddled with so far, a really nice metallic 'clickety-clack' when pulling and releasing on the charging handle. I wish more gnus would pay attention to that!

Bah humbug. Well I never got around to saying that I took the gun along to the skirmish a couple of weeks back, and it stopped firing on the range after only a few shots. Having just taken it apart, I could see the trigger was jammed - so it wouldn't go back far enough to actually make contact for single or full auto. I meddled with the spring and the lever from the left side of the gearbox, and the trigger released. So I tried a test fire. Ughhh. First I made the mistake of using my DE mag which is the one the F2000 really doesn't like, so I think I had some double feeding. Then I tried another, and things went downhill fast. It spat out a few shots, not very accurately, and then I got the death scream / rattle. Yup, it's eaten another piston. Ho hum. Any recommendations for a replacement piston? Is it worth trying a 14 tooth one? And should I avoid metal teeth in case it tries to do the same again? Anyway, in other news... spotted off the starboard bow... Yes, another one

That sounds likely. You could try to record the arrival of the package and the unwrapping, with one continuous video from the moment the delivery guy hands it to you... (Ask him nicely, maybe he'll stick with you for a couple of minutes and he can be a witness too) If it does indeed turn up empty or with a brick in it, that might be useful somehow?

Damn, I'm glad this thread has been resurrected... a Double Eagle that's not an M4, but takes M4 mags... that's getting very near to the top of my shopping list! Does anyone in the UK actually sell them though???

I went a bit "medieval" on it, jammed the motor up into position and fired a single shot, which did the trick. I started re-wiring from the battery connector backwards, so did that first. Then out came the (intact) fuse - success!! So it seems there was a flaky connection at one end of the fuse causing the main problem. I've removed the fuse altogether and soldered the wires together, all working nicely. Now the problem I have is that the motor sounds like it's got half a bag of nails in there, and it's rotating slow as molasses. I might put the whole thing back together just to see if it'll feed and shoot half decently, before spending more time and money on it. Good shout on using a motor spring on the barrel The big mystery piece was indeed from the stock, the shaped prong sticks out from the stock into the body of the gun, when it's in place. It'll need a Mosfet as one of my new 11.1v batteries fits perfectly in the hand guard. Any recommendation for a cheapo 'protect the trigger' option? I'm thinking the Gate Pico will do ... https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/gate-picossr-3-aeg-micro-mosfet-unit Where can I buy a mid-length motor? I've found a couple at Fire Support but £41 is a bit steep. Any good places to buy a Chinese special at a lower price? Edit: Well, well, well. Put it all back together, got some test shots through it on the 8.4v mini, but for some longer range shots into the garden, I stuck the 11.1v on it. Cue reasonable rate of fire (13.5rps) and a pleasing 'laser beam' stream of BB's hitting the centre of my backstop. 290-295fps with 0.28g bb's, with some hop applied (I think that's bang on the joule limit) It's not perfect, it's finicky about the mag position as I had some failures to feed, but damn, even with a possibly knackered motor it feels like there's a good gun in the making

Finally got around to tearing the gun down again, now my wire and heatshrink has been delivered... I can see the gun is cocked - is there any way to release the spring tension before I crack the gearbox open? (I'm off to the pub shortly, so it's a job for tomorrow)

Hi ho! I thought I recognised the gun covers from here when you showed them to me I should have said something... Anyway, hope you enjoyed the day, even though we were out-gunned by the HPA pro's on the other team Yeah, definitely like that Sort-of-related info-nugget: I saw the 'Born to kill' helmet at the Design Museum when the Kubrick exhibition was there

It's not a bandwidth problem (100MB fibre)... I get this message instantly: I've had this with other embedded videos to be fair, maybe it doesn't like my Chrome... adblock extension perhaps? No, paused that for this site, still happens

Cheers, will do - if changing the wiring doesn't do the trick (I think it will)

Thank them for making nice optics at great prices, but I wouldn't be interested in engraving an essentially disposable item. But then I don't think I'd be interested in engraving my gun either, even though I like messing around with my rattle cans for a personalised look.

I need to swap out some / all of the wiring in my SG552 gnu, which gauge wire do I need? 14 or 16 or 18 AWG? (Stock motor, spring etc, expecting to stick with mini 8.4v NimH battery. It's a tight fit around the gearbox, so the more flexible the better) And does anyone sell small quantities of black + red wire, and with heat shrink?

I can't see the movies It looks like a good clone for the externals though

I'm not tooooo worried about paint showing through, a quick squirt from the rattle can and it'll be fixed. I've actually got a couple of new cans on the way, MTN 94 sand colour and a light-ish green, so I might do some camo patterning on the top anyway, in which case a bit of bright green won't really be noticeable. I got a screw for the detent and also a tiny spring (as bizarrely I can't get either of the ones frpm the gun to fit in one of the switches - it has a smaller hole) So I'm just short of the barrel spring. Hopefully I can source that from somewhere... as it's bigger a bit of main spring might even work. The electrics ... it's not the trigger contacts. This gun looks very, very lightly used. The inside of the gearbox still has clean white grease inside. I'll start re-wiring it by replacing the battery connectors, take the fuse out of the loop too (the fuse is intact). The gun was firing on Friday. When I took it to the site on Saturday, it wouldn't. Cheeky lil' bugger. It might be beyond me to fix it, but at the price I paid I think I can still 'boneyard' it on and get most / all of my money back. Nowhere near doing that yet though!