RostokMcSpoons

I don't know enough of the TM range to know if 1911/MEU stuff is considered entirely separate from the Hi Capas, but my 5.1 D.O.R was peachy at the weekend, and I was using it as my primary (for the jailbreak game) and rapid firing without a hitch. It wasn't freezing but it was certainly chilly. Some other pistols I saw weren't working well. So a big thumbs-up from me

Yowzers, our Lord and Saviour came back after 3 days, you've resurrected this thread after 3 years! That's some powerful magic...

Yeah, I like the idea of tapping the receiver, so a screw in there can be removed with some fiddling to do the full auto thing if I have to. Doing stuff to the tappet plate is a bit irreversible and I'm doing this on a budget so the Mosfet is going to be a basic one if I do that at all. (I'm happy enough to run an 11.1v on it without a 'Fet, as it's going to get used pretty infrequently, and I accept the contacts will burn out or need scraping eventually.)

I've got 4 rifles at the moment, only one of which is truly healthy. I've got 2 which aren't feeding well on full auto. It might just be they need a new nozzle fitted, or maybe getting new hop units / bucking, but while I've got my Classic Army AR15 shooting just fine on semi, maybe "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade" I should just go with the flow and convert it to a DMR build, so it can justify a space in the back of my car at the next skirmish. It's got a nice long barrel and when I've got the outer barrel shimmed well, it even shoots quite straight And it looks the part when it has a scope on it. I'm happy enough to bung in a chunky spring to get close to the 450fps limit at SpecOps, but I have no idea on how to lock it to semi auto mode. I could just drill a hole into the lower receiver, and block the selector lever with a bolt... but is there a better way to meddle with the internals? Are there any gotchas? The occasions when my guns have needed a short burst of full auto to clear a semi lock-up spring to mind, not that I think the AR15 has done that

I think I've seen mention in reviews that DE use a knock-off of the Gate Aster, but maybe they're talking in terms of the functionality rather than an actual clone of the hardware. Edit: Having seen this post in the Activity page, and realising the amount of useful information in my post is approximately zero, I've decided to add an interesting factoid that I found by chance today: The flag of Hawaii contains a British Ensign, and is therefore the only flag of an American state to contain a foreign country's flag. So much happier that this is now a slightly useful post

I want a full report on your new gnu, @Stevobeavo as I'll be very tempted to get one for myself

I would say the beeping is either a loose connection being shaken by the vibration of the motor, or the sensor doesn't like what it's seeing and is giving you an error code diagnostic beep Edit: for a G&G mosfet, but maybe they're common... So somewhat backs up the idea the sticker on your sector gear is the issue

Just a warning - it seems there's a developing consensus not to go with Specna Arms at the moment - given the problems with the Orion gearboxes, fussy feeding from mags, and general unreliability. It might be worth raising a separate thread asking for advice on your selected gun.

You may not have seen the conversation around the sight protectors (for the front lens) available on eBay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/294313449017?hash=item448672d639:g:HHcAAOSwLDVhCtFe It gets a thumbs up from me and @Tactical Pith Helmet but if you do get one then superglue it in place because it can be knocked off. Now you've got two sights you might not feel the need to spend another £10 of course

Impressive! Mine's the same sight, bought from Amazon, but branded Kingscope... a definite potential for "YMMV"

Have you nipped any of the wiring when putting it all back together perhaps? It might be worth pulling it apart to check. I haven't opened my gearbox up... is the mosfet optical? If it is - any chance you've got grease on a sensor? Have you tried resetting the mosfet? IIRC it's simply done by putting the gun in Safe and holding the trigger for 5 seconds.

I have tried, but my smallest Philips screwdriver just really grip into the tiny screws, and won't budge them. I'm rather afraid I'll cheese the screw heads into oblivion. And there's no need to laugh at your own kit... these sights are excellent value for money. If you can't fix yours I spotted one on ebay for only £15 a couple of weeks ago.

Changed from my S95 DPM to MTP and it really does work better with the current foliage and leaf litter

Thanks chaps, I'm probably not going to be able to test out all the shimming things today, Valentine's day being what it is I've just looked at the motor and there's quite a bit of metal filings stuck to it. No obvious wear on the bushing. All the gears etc look ok. I was fairly happy with the shimming though - there was a tiny little bit of side-to-side movement available on each gear so it wasn't overtight. My intention was to run it like that for the full day's play, then take it apart and check the shim job on the COL held out (bonus factoid: it's survived so far), and then tighten the gear shims if necessary. Better to be too loose than too tight, I thought.

A mostly good day at Special Ops yesterday... took my F2000, M906 and AK47S (which only shoots reliably on semi so was my backup-backup). F2000 decided that it would hop my 0.28's thanks to the new hop unit and bucking. Which was nice. Not so good was I think I put too much hop on, jammed the barrel and the gearbox. So back to the trusty DE M906. A decent enough morning's play, with my gun running like a champ The rain came in harder at lunchtime, feeling a bit damp and cold. I was wearing my newly acquired MTP windproof smock, and was at this point wishing I'd bought the waterproof one. A change of undershirt made life much nicer. Double helping of tasty meatballs for lunch, and luckily the rain mostly went away before we restarted. The afternoon involved an interesting game of Jailbreak where 6 of us armed only with pistols were prisoners in the enemy camp. Our team attacked to break us out of the 'kill house' area we were in, but the marshals also had the ability to call 'jailbreak' at which point we could open fire and make a run for it. So they did, and chaos ensued Unfortunately I got annoyed at this point. Having been waiting 20 minutes for the big chance, I shot a guy twice in the back and expected to select my next target. But instead he turned around and started shooting at me, so I lost my chance. We all got zapped so and 15 minutes of choosing our moments when we'd make another rush, which usually involved getting a couple of very close range pistol kills and then getting lit up by everyone around! One of us did actually manage to escape. It was good to give my new Hi Capa a decent try out, it performed perfectly in the cold. At this point my battery died, and my game time came to a premature end. I had to run (well jog/walk) back to the safe zone to grab the other 11.1v battery out of the F2K, which was about 1.5km round trip. And then I couldn't get the damn thing connected... the PTS EPS stock and the short connector lead on the DE just turned out to be impossible to deal with in the cold / wet. I've got an extension lead in the AR15 which I've now transplanted across. A few more indestructible players around than usual, there were a few teenage hoody / puffa jacketed kids deciding to ignore anything short of painful headshots... for which I was happy to oblige. But still, I got through a wet-ish day without feeling miserable.

YT will provide you with a "next best" result if it can't find exactly what you're after. That's usually considered 'helpful' rather than anything else! As a video of a disassembly of a very specific airsoft gun is rather 'niche', it's not exactly surprising you're not getting (m)any hits. Wildhog and warthog seem to be the same guns but one with a flash hider and other with a suppressor. So all the interesting bits are the same. I'd suggest you're getting your knickers in a twist for nothing

Took the F2K along to the skirmish yesterday, had some fun and games trying to sort out the hop (at least it's hopping now) Basically I think, thanks to not enough time on the range, so trying to do this on the field PLUS having my contacts in (so bad short distance vision) PLUS being stupid enough to fiddle with gloves on... I think I wound on so much hop I jammed the barrel. Consequently the gun went 'bzzzzzzzzt' and that was that for its day This is a project gun, and therefore this is just another part of the learning experience for me. So I'm not too upset. Disassembling last night, I was confronted with this: (Arrrghh no focus. Sorry. Well anyway the pic (which I can't be arsed to re-take) shows a sprinkling of fine metal filings under the bevel gear It turns out what really grinds my gears is the immovable object of the jammed gearbox meeting the unstoppable force of the high torque motor. And yeah, it looks like before, or perhaps after the jam, the sector gear was eating the piston... There's damage across the whole of the first tooth, and the top of the next 4 or 5 too. Do you think the piston was damaged by a jam caused by the hop, or was gearbox going wrong anyway? Am I going to have to learn the arcane ways of the Angle Of Engagement? Is this piston beyond saving already, or do I just need to file the first few teeth to make it easier for the sector gear to engage them? As always, your thoughts would be much appreciated.

I was thinking of doing my AK with matte green and a few shadings of black or brown, yours looks very nice @Reverie, encourages me to get on with it

Couple of pics of my F2000 as I painted the suppressor to match the gun... and hopefully tomorrow will be it's full debut on the battlefield! It's already got some wear and tear on the paint just from carrying it slung over my shoulder and rubbing against the mags in my belt, tomorrow should see it get more battle-worn - which will be good

Yeah, it's tricky. Maybe develop a taste for watching Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down in strict rotation. so the neighbours get used to the noise of shooting In all seriousness, if you only let loose a burst of shots during daylight hours, with something soft to absorb the BBs so it's just the noise of the gun... I don't think the neighbours could complain. After all, it's not much louder than someone doing a bit of DIY with a hammer and an electric drill (at the same time, granted!). If you can time your occasional shooting with them being out, all the better. As for safety, it's good practice to keep it unloaded. Gun safety is something you want to always aware of so it becomes ingrained by repetition, so you don't f' it up when you're around other people. It's only too easy to casually pick up your gun, squeeze the trigger and have a BB bouncing off the walls. Or through a window. So at the least make sure the battery is out, mags are empty. And after shooting clear the gun with a couple of extra shots with no mag in, so there's definitely not one 'up the spout'... because that can catch anyone out.

Oh my word... When Luke from Negative Airsoft goes on about Orion gearboxes being crap, is that what he meant? (It makes 5 minutes I spent radiusing my F2000's gearbox feel like a good investment)

But anywhere you can go without it being act of Trespass is by definition and demonstrably by your own presence a public place! Remember, you're dealing with the law here, not your own internal sense of what's right and wrong and acceptable. You might think we're all coming on a bit strong on you, but it's precisely your sort of thinking that could lead to a public shit-storm one day, and an end to airsoft. So we're strongly on the side "careful now, down with that sort of thing" to avoid a problem. I bet you're thinking "I'm going to be in a forest, what's the worst that can happen". Well 99.99% of the time you might well be fine. But if you're there and you ping some innocent person walking his dog... (or - probably even worse in terms of publicity - the dog...) then we're all royally fecked just because you couldn't be bothered to find somewhere where it's legal + safe to try your gun. Anyway, to end on a positive note: I hope you find somewhere, you get your gun sorted, and have some fun with your fellow airsofters

Is it particular mags that cause a problem ... i.e. P-Mags versus metal ones? The top of p-mag feed areas can be different (more plastic) and stop the mag interfacing properly. Have you tried firing with pressure applied from different angles? ... so start with pushing up from the bottom of the mag, then tilting backwards and forwards (and even in combination) to see if there's a 'magic position' which allows good feeding. If you're lucky (it's forwards or backwards) then you'll be able to use something to pack the mag well... I've used Velcro Spots as a good packing thing (to stop stock wobbles etc), but layers of tape could do the same thing. You might lose your tactical reload drop-free-release but that can be a price worth paying. If it's the mag not sitting up high enough then you're looking at doing something to the mag catch. I've got a problem on my F2000 with (luckily only) one mag - I'm stumped on fixing that though!

Just gave it a few long bursts in the garden, all feeling good at the moment. Obviously my main hope is the hop unit / bucking / nub are going to do a better job at distance than the original unit. I won't be absolutely sure until Sunday.

Yup, playable. Looking forward to giving it its first proper outing on Sunday! Regarding the proposed o-ring fix: Everything is solid now anyway... the upper won't budge forward or back, and the body pin is now snug as a bug. Perhaps the trigger shimming did it, or perhaps the gearbox is better seated within the stock. Whatever it is, it's a welcome bonus Many thanks for the trigger unit and COL that just dropped through my letterbox, you're a top chap and no mistake guv'nor ?