Dan Robinson

I'm not sure if this is a flex, or a cry for help. 🤣

I'm having a "silent running" episode with Bespoke Airsoft. They've ignored a couple of emails about a problem I have with a purchase. Will give them a chance as I've not had an opportunity to speak to a human first hand.

Don't know channel, but my sympathies. If he's been given three months, that could still mean anything. My friend recently lost her mum to a particularly nasty form of cancer, nearly 12 months after her original prognosis.

I use pistols rarely in practice and when I do it's usually as part of a suicide charge or being sneaky. Also a recently introduced rule at our site... brought in to try and stop l said suicide charges by a few of us regualrs whereby everyone has to be armed. So I only use .2s for budgetary reasons and a bottle of "oh balls, what were these again".

Is it worth using .25s? Surely .2s would be more wallet friendly?

I was going to suggest a game of find the original website - but you had to ruin it didn't you

Never had a problem with PB, and all UK warehouse shipments have arrived well within time. Are you sure your order wasn't from the EU warehouse (which I read as "we're waiting for a few more orders to justify a container")?

Yeah, it doesn't do anything, and I'm pretty sure is never did. It must either be a way to pull images off the sd card or for firmware updates. Reading that blog, it may mean that the IC is fubarred 😡. Feck knows what Teledyne will charge to fix that...Well they'll just replace the board if anything at all.

I have one of those too. I use it to show people how their heat pumps are working and how (usually badly) their underfloor heating has been installed and set up. https://youtu.be/eEbCcYVQeAI?si=B0cBUChrg1PeLGHM My FLiR gun is useful for the minions to use on occasion, plus possibly when pewing. It's annoying that something so daft has potentially killed it. I got as far as reply number 4. It's shame this photo isn't 180 degrees rotated... one of those little components must be the chappy.

Que?

Whelp - got inside and to one side of the PCB. Was half hoping the charging circuits would be on a secondary board, but hey ho. Nothing seems to have gone pop on this side, but the socket is soldered to the other side, and I haven't got the kahunas to take it apart further incase I damage the screen or lense. Found a comment on Youtube that also mentioned a blown diode. At least I have the battery out now so I can check that tomorrow when my new probes arrive. The battery is just an 1860 with a thermistor stuck to the side - so that is easy enough to deal with.

Not on this model: Hunting for my spudgers right now. Ah - not the top - but the back of the handle.... Now don't I feel like a plum LOL.

Looks like i need to find a way to open her up...

When its plug in the charging LEDs stay off. Officially the batteries are not user serviceable, however, I found a place still selling the camera with a spare battery as an accessory. I suspect it's easy enough to change the battery if you can open the case without damaging it. I have ordered a new charging brick for it as well as some needle probes for the multimeter if only to eliminate that side of things. Pretty sure the voltage is still OK as the camera knows to shut itself down before they get too low. This it has done perfectly well for years (I bought it new in 2009). Big Clive would be proud - I've done this in a Yoku Moku box a few times. Have also tried to restore a DJI battery that was well below voltage, but the PCB is sneaky and knows that the cells were discharged, even if you managed to bring them back - I even disconnected them from the main PCB.

Am,I right in thinking if you get the polarity wrong on a charger you can blow the circuit board of the device you're trying to charge? Reason being, I have an old FLiR i7 thermal camera that the boy and I were going to use on a game day, so we did a battery test. Happy to discover that despite it'd age, there was a good 5 hours battery life. I then had to lend it to a customer (long story) who tried to charge it using an adapter he had at home that was the same voltage but it turns out unknown polarity). When I got it back there was about 5 minutes battery life left, and when I plugged it in with my charger it wouldn't take any juice. So I know the battery was/is good, so he's either fried something on the camera or my charger has spontaneously shat itself (my multimeter is too chunky to get inside the plug to measure the angry pixies). Possibly a blown diode? Tah in advance!

I miss him. His posts were hilarious.

I thought that was gong to be closed down soon because the land had been sold?

That'll be the "divine wind" imparted on the BB by the super Ninja Bucking that Gaijin clones are not allowed to use. They're a sneaky mercenary lot over there. Trust me - I know.

Two of the three I have here are ICS and another is Nuprol. I think the other one is Kings Arms? Could be wrong on that though. Don't tell my boy about the ICS ones though - one will be his

I've marked the mags that work fine with my Specna. It's not too fussy, but not all this Airsoft are equal. Welcome to Airsoft 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Doesn't that scratch your screen?

Glad I'm not the only one. These tend to get used up in the pistols, if only to save any embarrassment at Chrono LOL.

It is a gorgeous gun though.

Just double checked and it had been radiused. Which is disturbing too. How much difference is there really in the different options not from a specific metal?

Shiny!