RostokMcSpoons

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!

Blimey, working on this gun after the AR15, the AK-47 and the F2000, I now realise that this "meddling" lark can be hard. But it's scrubbed up quite prettily, I think, with the two-tone sprayed over with Halfords Camo Green I'm going to paint the mag too, not really a fan of the 'see my balls' aesthetic Anyway, apart from the cosmetics, the good news is the darned thing that cost me all of £50 as a boneyard sale does actually shoot! Yay! .... mostly. (Boo!) I'm tempted to think there's a loose connection or a short somewhere. This gun is a bit of a nightmare to put together with a lot of places where it can pinch or rub wires, and although I replaced and re-soldered one contact, and couldn't spot any obvious problems, this either shoots or absolutely nothing happens. In the absence of Mosfets and clever electronics, it must be electrical, yeah? Now it's the first I've taken this cheeky chappie apart, and re-assembled it, and it's at this point I have a major "Bedroom tech" confession to make. I've lost parts. I haven't fitted all the parts I've got - on purpose cos it was too damn hard I've got a part left over - by accident I may have used some of the screws in the wrong places The lost parts are: The spring that goes around the barrel (it's big so no idea how it could have gone walkies) The tiny screw that holds one of the selector switch mounting blocks in place (the internal silver piece, not the big switch on the outside) One of the screws for the stock - perhaps used elsewhere The parts I've got left over are: A screw (oops) The tiny springs and plastic bits to make the selector switches 'detent' . Bloody nightmare to fit 'em. Gave up for the moment. This big chunk of metal (with a spring) I thought it was a part of the stock, so didn't worry about it too much, but I'm damned if I can figure out where it's supposed to fit! Any SG552 experts out there that can tell me where that goes? Edit: Oops again... looking at the box I used to keep the parts in, there's this mystery object too: It might be part of one of my spare trigger assemblies that I used to scavenge the replacement contact from... or it might be some crucial component 😑

Now as an ex-journalist, you probably have some decent contacts knocking around, from whom you can get first or second hand info (unless your journalism was working for the Dorking Gazette, or similar). CNN used to be pretty decent, but are now an example of how Fox News has moved the reporting goalposts. They're not as extreme, but they're becoming more politically biased because down-the-middle reporting isn't retaining the viewers, it seems. So I go with Lozart's approach. The consensus from BBC + Sky + A N Other if there's any doubt. The people usually telling us to "do our own research" are way too often talking about their own echo chamber YouTube / Facebook / Reddit channels. And they fail to see the irony in what they're spouting. If you ever want to laugh at Flat Earthers and their conspiracy theory brethren you'll see it in action, and it's a horrible thing when all logic and obvious truths are cast aside just "because it's what The Man wants you to believe - so I don't believe it"

It's amazing the number of people who'll make light of him or stand up for him. (Yeah Trump, I'm looking at you first) My Quora feed is enough to make my blood boil tbh. I really ought to unsub from that troll-filled pile of cack. But there's usually some interesting or amusing factoid to be gleaned from the steaming mess it almost always turns into.

Unless we're all stumbling around a radioactive wasteland, in ten years time the history books will be divided like this * Russia - We won against the rebels and protected our people blah blah blah * Everyone else - Putin was c*nt and invaded an independent country Victors writing their own history books will be in a minority of one. And they'll be wrong.

Indeed, this occurred to me too. I've salved my conscience by deciding to both pew, and donate. Although like an absolute plankton, I managed to donate to the wrong Red Cross appeal (don't just google Red Cross Ukraine and click on the 'donate £20' link, like I did - that's for a UK appeal! Only realised once I'd finished) https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwif55ab2pr2AhVCsO0KHaS5CUIYABABGgJkZw&ae=2&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESWOD20PIflYLL7va-NGQ6E8IMX0a_NXg6ZK59fFJ1WFvIWNO5dUZvO0X1PMOLj2DWnqUmCfqjOo0vK1ct-E8XdJ3igTZnm12HEeYTQpNpnWxRe_Kxw1DN6QI&sig=AOD64_1323A7qVN1X4AASS-9W8Nk35M48A&ved=2ahUKEwiv4I2b2pr2AhXloFwKHZFJAtEQqyQoAHoECAIQBQ&adurl=https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwif55ab2pr2AhVCsO0KHaS5CUIYABABGgJkZw&ae=2&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESWOD20PIflYLL7va-NGQ6E8IMX0a_NXg6ZK59fFJ1WFvIWNO5dUZvO0X1PMOLj2DWnqUmCfqjOo0vK1ct-E8XdJ3igTZnm12HEeYTQpNpnWxRe_Kxw1DN6QI&sig=AOD64_1323A7qVN1X4AASS-9W8Nk35M48A&ved=2ahUKEwiv4I2b2pr2AhXloFwKHZFJAtEQqyQoAHoECAIQBQ&adurl=https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal

I think it's right to show some sensitivity at this time. However, if the only kit I had was Russian, I'd still wear it. But I'd understand if I got some comments or looks - and be prepared to explain / have a thick skin about it. Unfortunately there's definitely a bad guy at the moment

Replaced the sling attachment on my F2000 with a couple of straps from this and all the securing sliders, plus a couple of metal D-rings, to make this ... which seems to be working pretty well. I originally had the d-rings at the top of the stock, but actually that made the sling get in the way when shouldering the gun, so I re-jigged it to the current position. Because of the extra webbing inserted into the buckles to support the d-rings, the sling slots in the stock don't seem to be under undue pressure, so I'm not afraid of the plastic struts breaking. And an added bonus is I don't need to use the hex bolt to keep the butt plate on now, so battery changes will be easier. For an added Brucie-bonus, it also looks a lot more like the BF4 setup (in spirit, at least)

My instinctive reaction is to make the joke of "Pics, or it didn't happen"... but perhaps I won't, just this once, just in case...

Enjoy your new gnu You probably will need to replace the spring sooner rather than later but that *super* easy to do, and a spring costs a tenner. Apart from that I'd seriously say don't be tempted to 'upgrade' it, this gun shoots nicely and it seems (by all accounts so far) to be reliable, so have it and keep it as your Constant Friend rather than meddling and breaking it. So says a voice of experience 😛