RostokMcSpoons

Jeeeesus.

4.Made of high strenth/tough materials. That suggests 'plastic' to me. With some bad typo checking! So hopefully they originally had 'transparent' and it got chucked out of whatever translator they used as 'glass'

I'm a guy who subscribes strongly to the idea of 'suppressive fire'. I got quite a few kills on my last game when I was spamming shots at an obvious location and people would either peek into it or jump out from it. And the rest of the time I like to think I'm stopping them from using a good firing position to shoot at my team. Also - I've paid good money to be there, I'm damn well going to fire my gun as much as I can - it's fun Firing lots of single shots and 3-5 round bursts I estimate that I used around 1500mAH worth of juice (at 7.4v) for a full day's play on Sunday (one Li-Po emptied, plus a bit from my Titan which I wasn't sure was working ok, so was my backup). I used up a bag and half of BB's, so between 4,000-4,500 BBs in that time. It's good to hear the Li-Po storage thing can be abused somewhat. I can't find my old 7.62 ammo can to store 'em in though, just using a Quality Street tin at the moment. I suspect that'd melt pretty quickly in the worst case scenario 😕

At 3000mAh you're just needing to buy one Li-Ion battery rather than two Li-Po's. So there's that. On the downside... where can you get one for £35? Seems to be £45 at Land Warrior, or Airsoft Anonymous (out of stock)? And at 20cm I don't think it'll fit in the buffer tube. Not with the wiring to contend with as well. (But you've got the 908 crane stock, so you may be luckier than me in that regard. You can certainly opt for the nunchuck version instead) Next is the 'Li-Po' vs 'Li-Ion' quality of life stuff... You can't store a Li-Po with much charge in it. If your charger does discharging down to a storage voltage then you're ok. My ASG smart charger doesn't have that, so I've either got to buy a different charger, or find another way to ensure my battery is run down to its minimum level.

I would say that while some here say 'pockets are fine' I had a couple of 'interesting' situations where I just couldn't swap mags within the same calendar month. So a belt / chest rig with a least a couple of mag holders would be on my essentials list. Preferably the plastic shell type, or with a metal insert, so you're not even fiddling with retaining cords etc (but not losing mags either). You could refer to my "will my webbing wobble thread"

Watch the Sweary Man (c)(tm) dissect each manufacturer here: Skip the first 3 minutes. It's long and there are lots of Naughty Words. But as a tech he'll give you an idea of how good each company's products are. (He likes Cyma and Double Eagle at the cheaper end, but there are some other manufacturers I know sod-all about that he rates too, and they might actually be in stock)

Yeah that's a good choice. I've just been through the same journey as you, ending up buying a Double Eagle M906c... you could search for my threads, if you're a masochist 😋 I'm actually keeping an eye out on the Black Friday sales as I would like to pick up a bargain backup gun. Your choice did catch my eye again yesterday, but it's still at full price. Very nice gun though and was in the running when I was originally looking. Now the interesting thing is Patrolbase actually have the M906 marked as a Black Friday deal at £120/130 which would be an absolute steal. (and it would piss me off somewhat as I paid £40 more) It's still at 'OOS' but why lower the price when it's been like that for a few weeks? Are they going to reveal some stock on the day? Worth keeping an eye out for that!

Yeah fair enough Druid. I shall resist the small temptation to try this 'experimental' 11.1v battery in one of the two old guns and just try it in the DE Btw with its MOSFET, does that add some extra protection? I might use my M16 as a base for some experimentation, either going dmr, or super shorty.. plenty of room to add a MOSFET, would it be worthwhile? (If there's more than a simple answer to that I'll chuck that question in to a separate thread)

I'm not sticking my tip in there for anyone! Yub yub kersnip! On a slightly more serious note, I got a new set of connector leads for my charger (to dodge my dodgy soldering on the original set). As I used the Titan it a little on Sunday, I decided to top it up. I expected a good few minutes of charging to do that, so when it took *seconds* I suspected the worst. I got my battery monitor on it, and sent the readings off to Titan to confirm its charged and healthy. They replied very quickly. With S1 = 4.20v and S2 = 4.21v, I'm (allegedly) "fine and dandy". Which means the two or three hundred bb's it powered on Sunday were merely scraping the icing off a big 3000mAH cake!

Excellent. I'll order it. I looked for some helping hands but mostly at the cheap end of the spectrum there are plenty of "it's rubbish" type of reviews, so didn't bother. I bodged something with a small vice, and a lump of wood and some blu-tack when I was doing this previously. Not great but better than stuff just loose on my desk Yowzers, 6 secs 0-60! Speedy! It's a bit pricey for me though, I think I'll stick with life in the bus lane

As a curious bystander who doesn't know about the AR latch, I googled and found this: ... is that what you mean and is it useful?

Yeah, but that's with their 'full fat' spring giving > 400fps. The problem is over-running the gearbox when there's less resistance from our namby-pamby 310fps (when new) springs. So that's why Patrolbase etc recommend the 7.4v instead. I'm sure there's a degree of 'CYA' in that, but it makes logical sense. The good news is the empirical evidence suggests the DE internals are well put together and can cope (at least for a decent time) So 11.1v is not a terrible idea. In fact with all this talk of the damned things I've just ordered the cheap 11.1v 1200mAH Nano-Tech from HobbyKing (slightly different version from the one I'd seen that triggered my previous post), because it's a stupendously cheap £11 delivered, so I'm going to try it. And I could do with an extra spare battery so why not. As I said to Jake though, I've got a couple of guns that'll fill in if the DE dies on me. As he's just got one, it's a slightly different equation. I seem to be fairly unlucky with my kit, I may be being unreasonably risk-averse (Here's the cheapo battery: https://hobbyking.com/en_us/turnigy-nano-tech-1200mah-3s-15-25c-lipo-airsoft-pack-t-connector.html)

My soldering iron is also from Maplins and just has a very pointy tip to it. It is a pain to get heat into anything other than the solder itself. I'll buy a better one off eBay or Amazon edit: is this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Preciva-Temperature-Adjustable-Electrical-Maintenance/dp/B08CKXJMKT/ref=sr_1_12 good enough? That includes multiple tips, a stand, tweezers, the de-solder pump... and a multi-meter for the princely sum of £17.50

This afternoon I found hobbyking had a tiny lipo 11.1v stock battery that still is 1200 mAH, and just a tenner. It's due to be back in stock at the end of the month. With your vote of confidence in the DE internals I'm sure I'll buy one and give it a go

Glad you're getting your gun sorted, and patrolbase haven't let you down For the BB weight, I was pinging .28's around yesterday like a good 'un, had to make some fine adjustments to dial down the hop in the middle of a fight to get the best traectory so hops those with ease. And I've shown it'll lift 0.30s at short range in my smallish garden, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if you could go to 0.32s if you wanted to. But if you're mostly going CQB then go with ... whatever is best value?

I've got some heat shrink tubing already (came with some cheap extra Deans connectors I bought), but with these AMASS connectors it's not needed, the plastic shroud takes care of keeping the bare parts of the wires isolated: edit: 5 pairs male / female connectors for £7 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Non-slip-T-style-Connector-Wireless-Adapter/dp/B08RTWV8G5/ref=sr_1_8

Those pics prove I'm clueless then, cos I can't see much difference! There's a few stray strands of copper in one of the bad images, but I was well aware to avoid chance of short circuits so I kept it as tidy as I could with as little exposed wire as possible. I've bought one of those multi-adapters to banana plugs off Amazon to use on my charger. But I'm intending to change my Li-Po and two Nimh batteries to Deans so I've still got some soldering to do! Oh yeah, regarding the pics of my existing soldering... I found taking the AMASS shroud off the Deans on the charger cable was hard work and involved a couple of pairs of pliers and some physical force. I'm not going to do that to my AK as the leads are very short, there's not much room to work with, and it's working fine already. The charging cable one.. ok, hands-up looks like I didn't do so well. One of the wires was secure, but more 'on top' of the solder rather than buried under it. Looks like that was the issue.

I do think the new BTP camo works better now we're in the autumn, even the desert version would do a better job blending in with the golden leaves that are all over the ground and the low trees. Dark stuff was less effective and sticking out a bit more than usual yesterday... In the morning I was wearing a black camo UBACS style undershirt, and I wished I'd bought the multi-cam version instead. I definitely don't need stuff slowing me down. That would = stopped A massive shout-out to this chap, who did the WW2 load out properly... He even lit up a pipe during the rest/reload breaks for the full effect Tally-ho!

Bargain-bin S95 DPM + cheap hat and gloves off Wish + used/boneyard Viper skeleton harness. ESS goggles, Tigris mesh mask. Kombat UK universal holster. A couple of SA80 pouches, and a cheapo fast mag holder for when I'm in a hurry (Got 4 of those on the way from that there China) Works alright! Just wish the DPM could hide my belly a bit better

Blimey I hadn't realised there was quite so much in this soldering lark. I'll get a couple of pics posted today.. at some point.. but as a general 'thang', if my solder is (to use a technical term) 'a bit shit' then maybe I've been guilty of using too much, and there's consequently a deal of it between the Deans terminals and the wire. Given the whole 'tinning' process I thought that would actually be considered a good thing?

Don't underestimate 'reliability' as a thing... Having had game days spoiled by guns failing chrono, or not working properly, if you have just the one gun you need it to work. Now I'm not saying the 11.1v battery will cause you problems, but if the gun fails on you, you will suspect or blame the battery, and you'll be kicking yourself for using it, because at that point you'd take a gun firing 'slowly' over one not firing at all! Having said that, I'm sure I'll send up buying an 11.1v eventually. But I have two other rifles and a pistol in my collection as backup 😇

Took my M906c out for its first game today... First kill was sniping someone's foot poking out underneath a tarpaulin... Oh the glamour! 🤣😆🤣 The gun was great. The lowish rate of fire was noticeable when shooting at moving targets at range though. The temptation to get an 11.1v battery (which will necessitate the PTS EPS stock purchase)... will be something I'll have to live with for a bit

Good day at Special Ops at Emberton (nr Olney nr Milton Keynes) Everyone as friendly as always, people took their hits. Perhaps because they saw me setting a good example so many times 🤣 After yesterday's problems with my batteries it was pleasing to get through a day trouble free. Almost took the old AK out for a walk but ended up sticking with the M4 just because 4 hi cap mags on the belt is very reassuring. Made one 'hero moment' taking out the bomb carrier and his escort before returning the bomb to my team. Not bad for a fat old bloke with dodgy ankles knackered but happy... soaking in the bath 🛀

Haha, you boys... 😆 Ok so the good news is I managed to get through the whole day with... 1) my big foot 1300 mAH lipo which lasted maybe 2/3 of the day 2) the Titan. Yup it recovered enough to keep me going for the last part of the day, based on an hour and a half plugged into a site charger during setup and briefing before play. Thank feck for that! So I think the battery itself is ok, the cabling in the gun is ok. I'll get those pics for you... Once I've levered myself out of this hot bath...

Is there any chance I've used bad solder? It's just the stuff I had in my tool box from years ago... Maplins lead free solder, Sn 99.3%, Cu 0.7% Hmmm.. I forgot to mention I put a Deans on the charger leads too, so if the solder(ing) is bad that would be why I can't get charge into the Titan now