Daddy Foote

Do it once. Do it right. I actually can't tell you this apart from work in an armoury and fall into Airsoft, or another way is to just start doing it... Having the basics in mechanical and electrical understanding and fault finding, basic engineering skills, the different ways thing fasten together, and knowing when you don't know something is a good start... Oh, and access to YouTube. 😁 And access to another Gun Tech... And if you know a great Gun Tech who also supplies parts. Will also source parts and give you the heads up on what will fit in what and with what modifications because they have done it, Give me their number straight away... I'm sure their are some out there but they seam to be like magical Unicorns... I started off fixing boilers in 1993. I charged £15 for every single job I did no matter how long it took. That was extremely cheap so I got lots of work. In 3 months I'd Seen and took apart almost every single type of boiler. Figured out how each one worked, and repaired it. So what I actually got from every repair was £15 plus swift education. That's not the only industry I've applied that strategy. And not always physical work. When you have a certain amount of intelligence and determination you can learn almost anything. That doesn't mean you have to be clever. It just means you have to know where you are lacking and either educate yourself or find another way around the problem. The biggest hurdle I've come across is using parts to repair or upgrade that are not made by the manufacturer of the particular thing you are working on. And that is a big part of Airsoft RIFs. Sometimes you just can't get what you want due to low stock and have to look at alternatives. In other industries the retailer/wholesaler is usually quite knowledgeable and you can ask for a part and they will give you an original part or a part from another manufacturer they know will fit/do the job. This doesn't seam to be the norm within the Airsoft world. The many people I have talked to about which parts will work in what. They don't know. They either say they just sell them and they are not techs or they say it should fit, then after some further prodding a 'should' is thrown into the mix... If you want to get into upgrading, servicing and repairing Airsoft RIFs is to do what I did. Buy original parts untill you are confident how things go together and work, then to start taking the odd punt. If it doesn't fit then that's the cost of education. My Dremel is indispensable sometimes... My spare parts are slowly growing and this gives opportunity to see if parts swap out with different manufacturers. If you are not sure about something ask. Be aware of who you are asking though as just with any industry there are lots of people who give advice who haven't actually got the knowledge to give it. I hope this helped in some way.

Do it once. Do it right.

"Rules are made because of fools to be followed by the few who care... Andrew Foote 2022... Apart from not being able to see if people have there eye pro removed/dislodged, I haven't got a big problem with blind firing. It certainly happens in real life. If everyone did it though apart from the safety risks, games would be less fun.

So it turns out I have a few options. 1. Try to find a drop in magazine that's complete. With or without a blowback. One problem with this is a complete G&G magazine is like rocking horse sh#t to get hold of. Or pay £150 plus postage. 2nd Problem is that although all V2 magazines are supposed to be created equal, they are not. Slight size different and shapes with modifications from different manufacturers. 2. Get a V2 magazine from another manufacturer and wangle it in with the help of a Dremel or whatever. One problem with this is as fast as I find one it's out of stock. 3. Buy a g&g shell for an M4 and swap over all the bits from my old gearbox. Get an un-ported cylinder and piston with metal teeth. Or reinforced one from another manufacturer. 4. Get a g&g mp5 gearbox shell with the blow back. Swap everything out of the old gearbox and get a new piston with steel teeth. Wish me luck. Lol.

I need some advice on a G&G TGM Q5 AEG Top Tech Advanced (Blowback - TGP-PM5-SD5-BBB-NCM) gearbox V2 with blowback rear wired. About 5 years old. After using full auto for about 20 rounds, had a T break then when I went to start another game it stopped working. I could hear a faint click when the trigger was pulled. I took it apart (first time fun) the rail on the piston was engaged on the final gear, but shouldn't be. Also noticed that where the blowback piston connects to the shell, the shell was cracked so I need a complete gearbox or shell /case. So a complete V2 gearbox or a complete V2 shell. Seams to be a weak point where the blowback piston attached to the main piston tube. The gears and the piston rail also look worn. So I could get new gears. What gears would be best? Does the rail come off the piston or would I need a new piston? As I'm already going to either replace the gearbox shell and swap all the bits over or get a complete new gearbox, what other simple upgrades could I do at the same time? It already has a high speed motor in it. I was thinking of putting a tracer with chrono on it. Are there some that talk to a mosfet? I've put it all back together and it works again. But I'm guessing I'll have to do something soon or it could lock up again or worse. Any advice is welcome.

I would agree. It's a gamble when you don't know if something is good or not. That's why I did a lot of research. Even when I saw the gun and thought that looks exactly what I want, I got onto Google and looked at reviews. Turns out the one I got is mostly out of stock everywhere and sells out very quick when it does get back in stock. There does seam to be a lot of them...

Pads don't seam to help my knees. The pain is when I try to stand up. I have exercises that help but not had to do them to sit in a chair at a desk... Lol. I've starting again... What's the channel? I've just bought a pair of these from eBay...

Has obsessively googling about Airsoft rifles since Christmas done me any good? Since then I've bored the crap out of my other half talking about it AEG's with my head in my phone. She has been doing a lot of huffing and looking at the ceiling. Bless her... Is this normal? Let me know if I got anything wrong but I think if I read this when I first got interested it would of helped loads. I played a few games CQB and looking forward to getting out into woods once the weather improves. So I started googling Airsoft rifles to learn what is good, bad and ugly. From what I can tell as long as you are between 300 and 350 FPS and your rof is about 15 or above then you will match most reasonable rifles for close to medium range. Getting consistent grouping doesn't seem that important in CQB. Clearly becomes more important once you get get outside with a lot more range. I'll come back to this in a bit. Then comes your bits and bobs, torches, sights grip etc. Things to make your life a little easier. Then upgrades. Longer tighter bores. Differing types of bucking, hop-up, gear boxes, motors, bateries. Seams like a lot more reinforced plastic is being used on newer guns to keep weight and cost down. The rental guns I've played with where all metal and had to put up with a bit of abuse which I liked. Although slower ROF and FPS than the others with there own gear. My previous experience with rifles was as a kid in the ATC using Enfield .303's and SLR 7.62's and a few others, Solid rifles. Getting a good grouping at 300 to 500 yards with iron sights. So when I looked at a couple of sub £150 Airsoft rifles with metal and plastic bodies and they where all a little bit...well...wobbly...cheap. I could t see them being that accurate at range. Couldn't see them bouncing that well either... I could see myself growing out of a cheap one very quickly. So what do you need for your new RIF as a newbie to Airsoft? In my experience don't spend a tonne of money on something you haven't researched, actually seen and held. And don't buy the first thing you see... A life lesson right there. Lol. Do you want to spend £300 on a Rif to find the same one elsewhere for £150. Or find out that you just don't like the feel of it. I considered getting an AUG as it's very compact. But when I got my hands on one I just didn't like it... Very ligh, felt cheap, awkward to hold... That's just my opinion. Many people love them. So what does it need to be at a minimum? FPS between 300 and 350 you want others to feel they have been hit. ROF 15 rounds per second or above. Not that you would fire that fast on a semi auto site but that ROF gives you responsiveness. You want that BB on target asap. Strong so a metal body. But be open to reinforced plastic if it feels solid. Sturdy so it bounces well when dropped and can take a bit of abuse. Iron sights as you can upgrade later. They have to be solid though and not move about as I'd seen on RIF's where the outer barrel could twist with very little force. Hold a reasonable about of bb's high cap 200-450. The ones you have to wind up. You will waste loads of bb's while panicking and shooting wildly out of fear. Later on upgrade to mid cap of about 120bb's where you don't have to wind the magazine. Be electric. Simple and will do the job. Don't have to keep gassing your gun or buy all that high pressure air gear... Inner barrel no less than 200mm. Unless running a very compact RIF for CQB. Turns out putting a longer barrel on can speed up FPS but effects accuracy, reduce range and can actually slow down the FPS. You have to start upgrading the hop-up, pistons to get more air into the barrel, then look at gearbox, motor... I'll stop there. That's for well later when good enough to actually notice the improvements... But definitely have in mind that there is a good chance you will grow out of your first RIF and want to start upgrading it. Seems to me many standard parts that are easily interchange. Seams that an easy way to get more accuracy is spend some attention on the bucking and slightly heavier bb's. This all seams to be like alchamy and magic to me at the moment though... And we are not finished there. I was clearly interested in CQB as I had a couple of games. But had to consider rails to add torches, sights, scopes, handles, lasers, launches.... There seams to be a hell of a lot to take in, and if you are like me, you will look at the cheaper options, £150, then see what's good and your budget goes up a bit, but then that one doesn't have this. Then your budget goes up a bit more. It wasn't long before I realised that if I wanted a good rifle I was going to have to pay at least £250 just for the rifle then I'd need a case, battery, charger, additional magazines, red dot sight, etc etc. I got up to about £600 then realised if I wanted good for a reasonable budget, as a newbie to Airsoft, I was going to have to go used... So I did. And it was the best decision I made... Hope you got something out of this and I'll post a photo of what I ended up with next time. 😁 Pew Pew for now...

The first time I played it was madness. The last game I was a lot slower and thinking more. Got hit a lot less and probably got the same amount of kills.

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