Terry_Rist

If you are looking for a range upgrade try a new hop rubber and maybe a bucking. I like the maple leaf macron buckings but have a look around and see what you want, everyone has their own preferences and most of the aftermarket ones that are decent quality will work. Your hop unit and hop rubber are responsible for probably about 90% of your range and accuracy. Barrels can sometimes make a difference if the stock on is bent or broken or really low quality, but most of the time they are fine and not really worth the upgrade price/performance wise. If you just want to then I would suggest get a stainless barrel like the ZCI inner barrels. They are cheap, good quality and stainless is a lot more resistant to damage/wear than brass or aluminium barrels. if you value reliability then I would suggest leaving your gearbox stock. Unless you are unlucky or have a serious amount of wear on the gearbox then stock will be most reliable. If something breaks then you could look at upgrading internals, but if you have never done it before you are more likely to make your replica less reliable rather than more reliable. If you want to start learning to work on your airsoft replicas, I would suggest getting a second cheap gun to do it on. Leave your best gun stock as a backup and mess around with something you can afford to break while maintaining a stock reliable gun. You don’t want to miss out on a whole day of airsoft just because your only gun broke. In my experience it doesn’t matter how well your gun is built something will go wrong at some point and you will be grateful for a reliable backup gun. There is always the temptation to push everything to the limits if you are ‘upgrading anyway’ you might as well go for max performance…this inevitably leads to a less reliable gun (don’t ask me how I know 😂)

I have held both, the novristch one is just a generic feeling airsoft P90, I have heard people say it is a JG body but have no way of confirming it. It feels the same as any on the CYMA or double bell or other standard airsoft P90s. The only thing you are getting for the price is nicer internals, a different shaped trigger and a different top rail with the nov one. The Krytac P90 has much better feeling externals and is a much more solid feeling gun. It is such a shame about the crappy internals for the price. As far as I am aware the Krytac still conforms to TM spec but it is a completely redesigned body mould. I have only ever held one and not taken it to pieces so can’t confirm what may or may not be different. From what I can remember I think it had less fake screws than an airsoft P90 body normally has, maybe just the ones that are over the gearbox by the sling attachment were fake.

As far as I am aware the Krytac uppers should be compatible with most other P90 bodies, almost all of them are TM clones at heart. I really wish Krytac would sell just the lower receiver/ stock, it is so much nicer than any other airsoft P90 body form any of the companies. I am just waiting to get one boneyard maybe in a few years and put decent internals inside it, I am not paying retail price for it with the stock internals though I was so close to buying one as soon as I held one.

Are you running an 11.1v battery? If so it is most likely that you have run into premature engagement (look it up for a better explanation) but basically with a weak spring and a big battery/fast motor and gears, the piston doesn't reset fast enough so the gears catch on the piston rack part way down. If this isn't the case then it could realistically be pretty much anything that locked up the gearbox.

It is only £20 extra b the time you factor in buying the flash hider with the correct threads for a scorpion evo that this one is also missing.

Yeah full auto at 40rps is just too much to ever be useful and even the slightest tap of the trigger will result in too many BBs coming out for it to be considerate to other players. With 3 round burst, I don’t think I can pull the trigger 8 times a second to get up to 25rps so even if I spam the trigger I am not being that much of a dick compared to someone with a full auto gun at acceptable ROF limits. I do agree that with the wonder of modern mosfets with precocking it does make a massive difference on the initial shot response, what it still won’t do is make your gun any more snappy if you want to spam the trigger with your middle finger like a speed softer high on monster

🤣 More Dakka is always the answer. I have it set to semi and then progressive semi-3round burst, just that bbrrrrrttt of the burst is so satisfying. I normally lend it out to either friends or nice rentals or use it as a backup if I need it.

I will make myself unpopular here and say that the TM P90 is not worth it at all any more. It is very outdated and the CYMA/Cybergun P90s are a direct copy for half the price with a better quality body. The problems I have with the TM is the body is creaky even compared to all the other cheap P90s, it has to be one of the worst. The TM/CYMA gearboxes use 6mm bushings which are fine but small by modern standards, but the spur gear sits on a proprietary oval bushing. I think guarder make a set of aftermarket bushings that have this shape but they are hard to find a and stupidly expensive. Bushings don't often need replacing, but these are relatively soft for both TM and CYMA and you can run into isuues trying to shim aftermarket gears on the stock bushings. The cut-off levers aren't very strong for both of these and wear quite quickly over time especially with high ROF builds, the trigger switches are fine but nothing special. These also don't have a quick change spring, not the end of the world but really by now it should be a standard feature especially if you are paying the kind of money the TM is listed at. The internals are pretty low spec and outdated. plastic rack piston and head, no bearing on piston head or spring guide and brass or aluminium cylinder. The gears are fine but nothing special. I have held and fired the Krytac but don't won one and if you want the best build quality one out there then it is the one to go for, all the other P90s feel like plastic toys compared to it, however it is expensive and not completely standard inside and the stock internals can have problems with overspin at UK power limits. It does have a mag cut off which is nice. Same with the Nov one, I have tried someone elses at a field. Externally it is the same quality as a CYMA and nothing special apart from the redesigned front end and trigger but that is all preference. It shoots pretty well for a stock gun, nice and snappy but the trigger still feels like an airsoft P90 trigger and isn't as nice as the Krytac in my opinion. It might be a bit overpriced compared to doing everything yourself but not an awful choice if you like the look of it. G&G have a really nice body to them, standard bushings on all the gears and quick change spring. the newer ones have their mosfet installed, the internals are ok on them but are pricey for what they are. The Double Bell P90 is a wolf in sheep's clothing and really is one to consider. The internals are the best of the bunch apart form the Krytac/Nov ones. They have a full steel rack lightweight piston, aluminium double o'ring piston head and bearing, stainless steel cylinder, decent cylinder head, 8mm bearings on all gears and a quick change spring. The motor is still ferrite magnets but is much snappier than the TM or CYMA, the wiring is all fine but unfortunately no mosfet as standard. The gears are nice and hard and come with a delayer chip already installed. The only thing internally that lets it down is the lack of o'ring on the nozzle but very few stock guns have that and it hasn't been a problem on any of mine so far. The only thing that lets the Double Bell down is the externals. The body isn't quite as good as the CYMA, it has some flashing internally (doesn't really matter and unlikely to even notice unless you take it to pieces) but it feels slightly more plasticy on the outside, not by a huge margin but worth noting. Compared to the TM I would say it is on par if not better, the TM plastic feels harder and almost shiny compared to the others but also a bit more flimsy. The biggest drawback is that the Double Bell comes with a plastic upper receiver, this is what completely changes the feel of the gun and understandably turns some people off it straight away. If there was an easy way to just buy CYMA upper P90 receivers I would do it in a heart beat as then you would have basically the ultimate budget P90. I have just received the two Perun P90 mosfets that I ordered and will be installing one in one of my Double Bells and then one in my CYMA with a Double Bell Gearbox swap, I currently have one with a hacked Perun ETU++ and that works ok but was a right pain to set up and you can't get a two stage trigger working with it because of how the switches interact with each other so it s just permanently locked to semi. Hopefully the new dedicated mosfets should make everything better and much easier but I will have to see after installing them. These Mosfets do cost £100 each though so it is worth keeping that in mind if you are thinking about doing serious upgrades. P90 mags are hit and miss and can suck. Sometime the highcaps are great and you can feed a whole mag from one wind, other times they dont feed right or you have to take them off and wind them again part way through; at least they don't rattle like normal highcaps. The midcaps are meh at best, the cyma ones that are 70 rounds are ok but terrible capacity and dont feed well with high rof builds, the TM ones again have terrible capacity for their size but in a stock TM they feed fine but that isn't saying much. I haven't managed to find any MAG branded 170 round midcaps in stock for a reasonable price including shipping anywhere over the last couple of years, they are what people rave about being the gold standard of P90 midcaps. The Krytac mags are probably fine, but at £30 each they can fuck off I am not paying that. I run with a heretical M4 adapter that I designed so it sits like an Bren gun. This obviously has drawbacks of being able to use any kind of sight inline with the bore, but it allows me to use good quality M4 midcaps to keep up with high ROF and they are a much better package for carrying on a chest rig. It gets lots of stares and comments and is very decisive but does work wonderfully.

Seems about right on a 7.4v, mine was just over 25rps out the box with an 11.1v. However I have thrown in a warhead brushless to mine now and it is up to about 40rps now. If you are looking for rate of fire then there is no replacement for running it on 11.1v, if you are running 7.4v then you are leaving performance on the table and have to accept it as a sacrifice for potentially less maintenance further down the road.

Every site will always have some bad players, it is how everyone else deals with it that can make or break the day for me. I had such a good time I will definitely be back again, it is about and an hour and a half drive for me but is definitely worth it. I will just have to watch my back for long range TAG rounds😁

That Tag shot was beautiful, sailed half way across the field before landing right by us and detonating. I did congratulate you about it later in the day because it was such a great shot and was one of the highlights of the day even though I was the one that got hit by it (I was the twat wearing shorts and a leopard hat). It was my first time at Red Alert Newbury but I had an amazing day and will definitely be back as often as possible. Everyone was friendly and a really good sport and just there to have fun, no bullshit and everyone got along regardless of their playstyle and the marshals did a great job of keeping everything under control and running smoothly.