RostokMcSpoons

I'll see if I can record some video or put some rounds on paper tomorrow... But at 15m some of the shots were missing a target that's about 9" wide. Quite a few were smacking into the middle, but it's feeling less accurate than the DE with its shorter barrel. It was of course a windy day, maybe it was gusting and I just didn't notice In unrelated news, unexpected gnu in bagging area, more fun and frolics to come! (Apologies in advance)

Somewhat good news in that iWholeSales (which provide guns on-order to SpecOps, and I think a few other skirmish sites) actually have a few different DE guns in stock right now. The only issue is I don't know what their prices are, only account holders get to see them, but have ordered these by price. The 'pro' sniper rifle gives us a clue on the upper limit (~£250), but let's hope they're not anywhere near that level now.

Did some test firing on Friday that didn't go brilliantly well, with some failures to feed that I thought might be due to the weird positioning of the nozzle between shots, but I've just screwed the back plate in hard (ooooo-eeerrr Missus, yub-yub, wibble ker-snip) and fired a couple of hundred BB's through it down the garden. Without any jams or problems. Shot dispersion side-to-side was a bit more random than I'd like, but as this gun is now officially my Spray'N'Pray Nearly-Wanker-RoF Beast, then I think accuracy can be sorted at a future date (and after a future pay cheque). I just hope I can actually have it run solidly for at least half a day before I do anything else to it!

My nearest site (SpecOps) has a fairly limited site in terms of structures (most of them are represented with just sheets of tarpaulin hanging on lines, or tents - I hate to think what the storm has done to it), and now we're in the middle of winter there's quite a lack of vegetation as cover. The games tend to be simple rolling defences, or bomb plant / defense, or rescue a dummy... so even the young kids can have a clue what's going on. But it's pretty much always good fun, just because the owner and the marshals work together, and try to keep it light and without too much emphasis on being 'competitive'. So we do get pre-game briefings, and hear who has won at the end. Static teams get a gentle cajoling to push on (almost all games having infinite respawns that aren't too far to trek back to helps). Good team efforts or solo runs get mentions in the couple of minutes post-match, and the whole thing rounds off with a "thanks for coming, hope you all enjoyed it" that feels like it comes from the owner's heart. Or perhaps from his bank manager Decent bit of nosh for lunch included too. There are things I could critique, but by the sounds of it I'm pretty lucky with my local site. Player numbers are 40-70 and the playing areas kept reasonably tight so at least one of the small number of marshals are always in line of sight. So to the OP - stick with it, hopefully you'll find something reasonably close by, don't disregard a site just because it doesn't 'look cool' as it sounds like the quality of the people running the place is the most important thing

I got one (The EPS that is. And a Titan 11.1v 3000mAH nunchuck for it and the F2000.

Yeah that's really nice. I like everything about my M906C, short of the small battery space (the circular tube only good enough for ~170mm long and 20mm diameter batteries), and the fact the spring was made out of chicken wire, so I'm an easy sale for another DE gun. I really like the look of this, and I'm glad to hear it's impressive so far... I too am concerned about the mags though. Being logical I really need to stick to STANAG types as that's what I've already got, and my belt rig is set up for them too... so if I get a second DE it might well be one of these instead: https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/double-eagle-m916g-utr556?pv=17877

Oh I see... ... Hairy palms?

Cheers, looks like that was a good shout. One of the signal wires was in contact with the shell, the other one was close. I've bent the front one away from the shell, and it seems to be behaving itself again :phew:

I've just put the gearbox back together a couple of times today to check the shimming and I've just had some weirdness. It occasionally decides to fire on its own I've noticed that the nozzle is partly retracted, so it's partly pre-cocked. Pushing back on the nozzle or bumping the gearbox occasionally gets it a fire a shot, or even a short burst, which is a tad disconcerting! It doesn't always pre-cock. And before this last re-assembly it was behaving itself (as far as I can tell, though I wasn't paying attention to the nozzle position) so what could I have got wrong? The last change involved moving a shim on the sector gear from the top to the bottom half, which seemed to help the trigger movement (it had seemed to stick slightly before), and also moving the front trigger contact as it was getting snagged on the tappet spring. So trigger / tappet / nozzle were all feeling nice and smooth. Before that I also smoothed off the main tooth on the piston, and filed down the second to a half height, but I'd test fired with that and hadn't seen the self-firing. Has the Merf's active breaking gone doolally? I don't think I can turn that off. Could the interaction of my shim on the COL's cam be interacting with the shim of the sector gear to make the sear action super-sensitive?

Isn't this the worst gun to use as a DMR base? It's designed to be high rate of fire, cqb and you're converting it to to long range single shot. And it's a TM so would be better left at 270 fps, as designed. Sell it on and get a long barreled AR...

I'm using Nuprol low pressure and also Abbey predator. My hi capa runs great on both, can fire as fast as I like without cool down effects So it sounds faulty, do as Aengus said and send it back

Hmmm... Gate says "Warning! GATE does not guarantee the compatibility of mosfets and ETUs such as TITAN or ASTER with brushless motors. Connection of a brushless motor can cause immediate damage to the device, motor and battery, that is not covered by the warranty and can lead to a fire."

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