Egon_247

Welcome to the madhouse. Which side of london? West? I'm over in the south east, the sites i go to may be a bit of a trek.....?

Ah, welcome to "dad tech"-ing. Its a proud moment when the little snot monster you raised, runs head on into a hail of plastic in the daftness we call airsoft. I've mentioned on your other thread about the m4 mag doodad. P90's are great little pews and can, if played with correctly, show up a lot of the big heavy lumps that I/we carry around. Ours was a boneyard and was shot to hell n back. However now, it absolutely screams plastic death. If thats a thing. If not, i just invented it. And want it on a patch. EDIT: and the only daft queston is one you dont ask.

OR......(as long as youre not left handed) you could get the M4 hi cap adapter unit. Kinda turns the little SMG into a support weapon... They seem to be ok, we've had a few issues with the boys one but i think thats mostly down to "dad tech" not being as awesome as he thinks he is. (thats me, being shit. LOL)

You're a bad influence but please don't stop. I love your ads, I rake through them looking for that unicorn part that I'm missing for something. 🤣

I just bought @HuttArmouries cyma cm356 springer shotty. (That was close, autocorrect had fun there!!) I've not had a tri shot before and I have to say, it's really silly. 🤣🤣 Love it. Can't wait to use it on some unsuspecting 'softer. 😁

Minor update. It did it again. right in the middle of a mexican standoff type firefight. he wasnt a happy bunny. Or hamster. So, this morning i got to it. it would appear that the recoil spring is not man enough to get the topslide back to the reset position hard enough to let it do its thing. So, used a 8mm long piece of 8mm airline-in fetching blue- drilled it out a bit and fitted that on the spring holder. Two mags later and it hasnt done it since. Hopefully its sorted, but you never know with these things, do you? *no hamsters were harmed in the making of this post.

So....Saturday at Apocolypse 249. Geared up, all the kids in the car and off we went. Used the wifes motor as it has more room for stuff. All set up in the safe zone and safety brief done, we head out for the first game. Noticed there was lots of rentals but they were enthusiastic and ready to go. 10 shots in, i realise the AUG is not being as awesome as normal and is double feeding, resulting in "brewers droop". walk back and swap out to the M14- its first time on the field. Damn they're heavy things, aren't they? almost need a wheel barrow to push it around on!! Blue team got destroyed on the first game, we needed coffee and bacon to regroup and get into the swing of it. Coffee and bacon consumed and we were off again, some over complicated dead, fall back, this bit is yours, this bit is theirs, blah blah KILL REDS etc. So we did. few non hit takers were introduced to the "I'm going to keep shooting until you actually call it" section of my brain, but otherwise a really good mix of maniacs and strategy users. One guy had to be escorted off site due to being a complete bell end and i genuinely hope he had a car crash on his way home after non hit taking, losing his rag and turning the M4 around to use it like a cricket bat 🤯 I dunno. i don't understand it. Went through more rounds than normal, but had a really great day, especially after the day at dogtag we had, the boys needed a good day to get their heads back into it. We did. Loved it. So other than a poorly AUG and "angry man" we had a great day. Im back at work today and i ache like a bastard but hey. it was fun.

Well, we're geared up and off to apocalypse 249 tomorrow, the boy seems happier about it and even the younger one is coming too. I best buy a lottery ticket 🤣🤣

HAaaaaaahaaaa!. Fixed it. There was a glob of cack (technical term that) in the trigger reset mechanism under the metalwork of the frame. Cleaned up, regreased and now back in play. Have to say, they're a sod to get apart. Roll on Saturday.....😁 Cheers for the help guys. And I'm not sure the market for hamster parts is big, but it's probably there.....😱🤔🤣

And keep the rest for spares. 👍😁🤣

LOL. I'm trying. I keep telling him its just a pew, but he's awesome with it. I'm trying to fix his baby.

I've looked at it now. I have regarded. Although i am old so by tonight i may have forgotten that i have regarded and therefore it has been disregarded. Cool.

Yes. i know. before you start on the tirade of abuse and i should have bought a TM blah blah, its the boys. Not mine. Mine is a WE and probably going to do the same thing as they all come from the same bucket of chinesium.... So. Boy has a VM9. great little gas pistol, it has served him well. Unfortunately it has worn itself out. It fires but the trigger wont reset. So i guess i'm looking for spare parts for it as a) he bought it with his saved up money therefore has sentimentals and b) i cant bring myself to bin it. So......Can anyone find or know the whereabouts of a parts diagram for said toy, and with Nuprol being nuprol, am i better off just banging my head against my desk?

Heh, thought i'd bump this up as mine has become my "back up" pew that comes with me in case one of the mains play up/die on us during the day. So far we've used it on every outing, aug being too hot (0.1J over ) and the boys mp5 losing its battery cover again. It refuses to die and is as solid as a rock. Im thinking about lobbing a warhead at it (not too mad but more than the OEM motor) and have heard that the falcon and the warheads dont always get on. It may be time for a service on it too, with the amount of rounds that have gone though it!!

Well, technical update, the araldite had a good 48h to go off and it got a lung full of red gas, seems to be holding sweet. Seems i underestimated araldite... Cleaned, ready for some underarm lobbage action... GRENAAAAADAAAAA....

Hope he does, it's awesome dad/son stuff and parenting is hard enough at the best of Times!! He's just got out of the shower and has shown me some of the dints he's got. I didn't know about it's reputation. Seems fair though. Didn't know this either. 🤣🤣 We will soldier on. The boy is too good to not get back on the horse, lock n load and raaaaa into the distance 🤣🤣🤣

I would have thought "hubba hubba zoot zoot" would be appropriate. It's what most people hear during the safety brief and what I tend to hear when some derp is shouting orders at me (50 year old, bald, chunky and doesn't take orders well 🤣🤣) https://youtu.be/6PMljKRFFrA?si=tHFjvah9rCJEm1ug

Both my boys did airsoft with me, the youngest gave up because of an uncontrolled twat at dogtag. The eldest hasn't even unpacked his pews yet and that's usually the first thing he does, unpacked, cleaned and ready to rock. I get it, you have bad days with anything you do but this was a bit much.

Well that was one day of airsoft that I don't want to repeat. By lunchtime I'd packed my gear up and was no longer shooting as the locals appeared to be made from Teflon and were impervious to hits. Play was stopped after some numpty threw a LOG over a wall, shouting grenade and nigh on knocked some poor unsuspecting bloke out. 😱 I laid 15 rounds into a guy (3 shot bursts) every single one bouncing off him, including a few off his noggin with a marshal watching and nothing. Nada. To prevent fatalities I gave up. Went back to the safe zone and grabbed a coffee. The Marshalls couldn't give two shits if you complained..unless you were a regular. If a 13 year old comes back to the safe zone telling me he doesn't feel safe out there, then there's something wrong. Genuinely never going back. Sorry dogtag airsoft in Crawley, unimpressed.

I think the thread is the important bit. It's v small, in a fine pitched m6 kinda size. I thought the gas valves were imperial (may be lack of sleep doing that though 🤣) I'm trying araldite just in case, you never know .. 😁 Failing that, I'll plug the hole and drill n tap a new one, if I can figure out the pitch/sizes.

I said something very similar to that...🤣 Even the dog looked at me, like "wtf was that" 🤣🤣

So there I am, in my tellytubbies pyjamas, asleep in my bed when at 4am I'm woken up by a sharp loud hiss noise. My brain went "that was a mag vent noise". Out of bed, had a look at the mag rack, nope, all is well. Ah, probably just my brain reacting to that cheese from under the fridge that I ate. Back to sleep. Only, I'm getting my gear ready for tomorrow and check my storm 360 grenade is all good. Which it isn't. 🤔 It appears that the gas inlet valve has had enough and has bailed out of the grenade in a very grenadey way. I cant find it, I was half expecting it to be embedded in the cieling 🤣🤣🤣 The threads have stripped and left a very clean exit hole 🤣🤣 Damn. Not sure araldite is man enough for it.... Any suggestions?

You local then CF?

Used to slosh it around on all sorts as an apprentice....I'm amazed I'm still alive...🤣🤣🤣