[Starship take 2....]

I'll be doing some pre-flight checks of my own, testing for Sunday at Spec Ops.  Thanks to family stuff and football injuries I've missed out on a few games recently... Looking forward to this!

 

Looks like it'll be a tad showery in the morning but a bright afternoon (until the sun goes down at 16:07 anyway, damn the clocks going back)

 

See you there?

[Starship take 2....]

Update for 3 pm ET: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says the second Starship launch is postponed to no earlier than Saturday, Nov. 18 to replace a grid fin actuator on the launch stack, according to an update Musk posted on X, formerly Twitter.

 

 

24hr delay, so 1300 GMT Saturday (2 hour launch window, I think)

[Why can't you read?]

On a side note (and possibly somewhat related), all the sold / completed ads remain in a user's wishlist for every and every and ever.   The option to 'remove from wishlist' disappears from the ad once it's completed.  Which isn't helpful, it it stayed active then I could at least clear up my wishlist manually.

 

 

[Starship take 2....]

Is it confirmed tomorrow?? Yeah I'll definitely watch it whenever it happens (praying it's not Saturday night or Sunday)

 

Edit: This news item says Friday at 13:00 GMT 

 

Elon Musk might be a gigantic twat in many respects, but SpaceX is brilliant

[Tippmann M4 V2 firing problem]

Not from me, that exhausts my limited knowledge of this gun, sadly.  Good luck with sorting it out!

[Sling Lenght...?]

@TheFull9 it's weird, I know that's the right way to use a sling, but I've got too used to doing it the wrong way.  Maybe I need to wander around the house with a slung rifle until it feels normal.   A few days might do the trick 

Separately...  with a heartfelt 'pretty please', could @LzChase please fix the typo in the thread title, it triggers my OCD (or something similar) every time I see this thread show up on the activity page

[Tippmann M4 V2 firing problem]

Caveat: I'm no expert, as my gun isn't running properly, but I have some experience...

You might not have sufficient pressure in the system. That will cause it cycle incompletely so the sear never engages.

 

 

 

Make sure the bottle has at least 800psi in it.   
Note that unlike other HPA gats, for this the bottle doesn't need a regulator on it, the gun does it itself.
If it's still not working correctly then adjust the settings in the gun so the pressure (via the internal regulation) is increased.

[Baofeng ar-152]

"BOOF-WHANGGGGG"

 

I like his style

 

 

He embedded a couple of frames of text, I had to read what it said...

[Which bbs?]

My go to choices are Geoff's and Warhead, but I've also used 'BB King' from Spec Ops and they've been fine 

[G&G L85 AFV magwell]

13 minutes ago, TommoThomson said:

As a rule I prefer using my Lonex mags and I'm feed up taking so many mags on game day, so thought I wonder if anyone else has had this issue and what they did to fix it. 

 

 

This is useful, but disappointing info for me.  I have a strong desire to get an L85, and the G&G would have been top of the list, but I wouldn't want to stop using my Lonex mags either (they're soooo ooo much better than high-caps)

[My Attachments - image storage space]

3 hours ago, Dan Robinson said:

Or how about this one?

 

Yeah I can see this one 👍

But not the first.

[in a dilemma.]

I can't see those remotely hosted pics 😔

[My Attachments - image storage space]

19 hours ago, gavinkempsell said:

Can't you delete some stuff?

 

On 30/10/2023 at 11:57, RostokMcSpoons said:

But for some I'm sure the temptation would be just to delete a bunch of images, which rather spoils the integrity of old threads.

 

Covered that already

 

I do have a more considered approach to my images, thanks to the existing limit, so now I always resize and save-as jpeg with a lower quality setting, so my images are now rarely more than 200k in size.  Usually much less.   If I'd known to do that from the start, then 100MB would have been ample.   But as it is, I have to edit pics... 

 

 

 

[What have you made?]

@Egon_247 ... Australian, by any chance?  Or are you just intent on making my neck hurt? 

 

I do love MP5's, gotta get me one some day.  Or an HK53.

 

[My Attachments - image storage space]

Being a Grand Master (oh yes, bow before me you mere mortals) with more than 1,500 posts... I'm bumping up against the limit of my attachment storage space.   

 

 

Is there anyway you can give us a bit of breathing space beyond the 100MB once we get past, say 1000 posts?   I'm now down to copy-and-pasting 1.5MB images into Paint.Net and resizing as low quality jpeg's just to free up a couple of megabytes.  S'alright, I'm not a busy man these days, I can do that.  But for some I'm sure the temptation would be just to delete a bunch of images, which rather spoils the integrity of old threads.

[The 'What have you just bought' Thread]

2 hours ago, Lozart said:

 

Same here. I cut one of the flaps off completely.

 

[MP7's ... Why so many for sale?]

Yeah Gavin, it does seem to be a bit of a theme of bashed up TM MP7s recently, I can see that plenty of parts are available from wgc, so it's not too frightening to fix one up, but the price had better be right!

 

I would consider a Vorsk for shits and giggles,  because at the current used prices (mostly quite sensible) I could try one for a while and get almost all my money back if / when I move it on.

[V2 Gearbox exploded. One more spring to go?]

The promised picture would be very helpful at this point!

 

Edit:  sorry, missed your edit with the pics

 

Looks like a trigger spring to me, but if you have already got that in place... Yeah, confused 🤔

 

[V2 Gearbox exploded. One more spring to go?]

Trigger spring?

 

[MP7's ... Why so many for sale?]

Here's the video.  The comments are interesting.

 

Edit:  Here's the actual comparison video, I'll leave the VFC review below as that's useful too

 

 

 

[MP7's ... Why so many for sale?]

36 minutes ago, Impulse said:

Interested to see this too, as I want to buy an mp7 and I'm still trying to work out whether I want the TM or VFC/Umarex one (at this point I'm also toying with the idea of just getting both...)

 

I watched a comparison video recently, because I have the same decision to make...

 

I'll try to find the video but the takeaway message was that both are great, you'll be happy with either, but maybe if you had the choice in a shop, the VFC is probably the one to get.  But it might come down to personal feels 😋

 

The VFC is 1:1 full size, is made of a better polymer and is (surprisingly) lighter (more felt recoil).

 

The TM has cheaper mags and more aftermarket parts. 

It's heavier because the external plastic is less strong, so it has a steel skeleton to reinforce it inside. 

Plus it has the famous TM pixie dust of course.

 

To twist the old IBM salesman phrase, no-one ever gets fired for buying TM 😄

 

 

[MP7's ... Why so many for sale?]

I'd best say right from the off, this isn't a troll question, I'm genuinely interested in the answers because I've been in the market for an MP7 for a long time now (unemployment has denied me the ability to buy one already)

 

So yeah, I've been watching the classifieds both here and other sites for a while, looking for a TM or VFC MP7 to buy.  There have been quite a few, and the rate of them appearing has accelerated recently, it seems. 

 

I guess the cold winter months won't help, all the gas guns move towards the back of the gun rack, figuratively speaking, as they become less effective for a few months, but still...

 

I've always thought a RIF's reliability and their (for want of a better term) 'lovability' can be somewhat judged by how many pop up in the ads... People don't ditch their favourite gat unless they're giving up the sport entirely, so why do they appear so often?

 

Could some ex-owners shed some light on why they offloaded theirs?

[Have I made a mistake? of buying this weapon?]

13 minutes ago, Yashy said:

Okay. What BB's should I be using outside? I don't want my bbs flying away at 0.20, would 0.25g be really good for outdoor and still hold a high fps?

 

Well, you can go as heavy as it can hop successfully (and your wallet allows, as they get pricey above 0.32g)

 

You'll only really know that once you try it shooting out past 40m, and can test the different weights.  Any half decent gun should be fine with 0.25g, a good one will do 0.28g.  You'll probably need to upgrade the hop rubber / nub / hop unit to go beyond that.

 

Yeah, as Cannonfodder and Dan say, 0.28g should be perfectly fine (I've gone through 10kg of Warhead 0.28g BBs and only felt the need to use 0.32s on one particularly windy day)

[Have I made a mistake? of buying this weapon?]

5 minutes ago, Yashy said:

The fact that his gun does 410 fps straight out the box, dunno why it really bugs me as mine doesn't do just as well.

 

His gun is doing 410fps?  Unless it's locked to semi auto then it's too hot to use in a skirmish.  He'll have to pull his gearbox apart to change to a lower power spring (not the most fun thing for a new Airsofter)

 

Assuming yours is doing 300-350fps then you'll be playing and he won't!

 

(And btw they both look like nice guns, you should both end up enjoying them)

[Various loadouts.]

OUCH

 

Good luck with the recovery! 
The Mk46 looks quite a beast, very impressive!