Colin Allen
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14 minutes ago, typefish said:
This will be the last time I reply to this topic
Bye.
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Did the UKAPU meeting take place? Are members going to be notified of the outcome at any point?
Do we need to leave our airsoft sites and march on wherever they are based? -
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3 hours ago, Skullchewer said:
I did 😉
Forget who?
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5 hours ago, AirSniper said:
Springs wear out, you know your car uses many springs and over time and repeated use through compression and release cycles, they break or loose their ability to provide the required resistance or force.
Same for any spring, some springs are made better than others and some are not and in airsoft, don't expect the best quality. Remember where they are made and the type of steel that is used isn't the same as home grown steel.
In Airguns you expect something that lasts the lifetime of the rifle but even then, they can fail, my sons HW57, a springer .177 had a failure of the spring because the rifle dieseled and caused the spring to become over stressed and it turned a sub 12 fpe in to a sub 8 fpe rifle.Springs do fatigue and lose their elasticity / tension strength and if you have an ETU that applies precocking to the piston, your spring is under pressure waiting for that release to relax. I had this problem in my RIF where I had the precocking set but didn't let the tension go and what happened was the ratchet and spring went, I had to have a new spring and piston.
Really? I never knew that, he wrote ironically.
Did you not read my statement "...assuming that the spring strength remains constant."?
Did you not realise that my comment was made in the context of this thread in order to demonstrate that, except where there is premature engagement, motor speed does not affect the power output?
Look, I get that you are an utter twat; why don't you do this forum a favour and fuck off to reddit or FB, where your inaccurate teching advice would fit in really well? -
2 hours ago, Cr0-Magnon said:
It's not the firmest. Annoyingly I've got both the Maple Leaf and Guarder Hop units and neither quite fit. Don't get me wrong, even stock it'll hop a 0.20 25M, which realistically is fine for most pistol type situations.
It sounds like it is the same gun under a different name.
A short length of spring glued into the hop unit so that one end pushes on the wheel stops the bugger moving.
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18 minutes ago, Cr0-Magnon said:
At the very least I'd recommend the newer "Cybergun" (Armorer Works). Unlike the KWC version you can get gas mags and fill them with powerful gas in the winter. The hop arm is made of something akin to tin foil though, so you'll need to play around with various options to get it to do what you want.
This is the one I went for:
The same hop arm problem as the KWC version...hmm. Is the hop wheel very loose as well?
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3 minutes ago, RostokMcSpoons said:
The duel is off. I was just about to re-watch Barry Lyndon for some tips, too
I shall keep the hot air balloon and the blancmange flinger to hand as I will encounter Roger the Welshman several times over the summer at various festivals, although I may be rather too busy running a lightshow and keeping the band in some sort of order to engage in mortal combat.
- RostokMcSpoons, Lozart and Rogerborg
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23 minutes ago, TacticalWaifu said:
If you fancied a bit of a change, Elite Force do a 1911 TAC CO2 -- it's actually made by KWC, but EF handle the licensing, packaging, QA, etc. Solid, and CO2 gives it a decent blowback/kick.
I have one of those; there are far too many proprietary parts, including the hop unit and the hop rubber. Airsoft Surgeon does an upgrade rubber but it is not particularly great.
The hop design is very poor and requires regular fettling to get it to hop BBs properly.
In the UK, they are generally branded as Cybergun and Milbro.
I would not recommend them.
- TacticalWaifu and Skullchewer
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1 hour ago, RostokMcSpoons said:
My boots have arrived!
Very good condition, good size (failry snug, once I'd put some cushion insoles in them - I hope my feet don't swell tooooo much through the day)
Very happy at £38 inc postage.Noticeably not as much ankle support as my high-top para boots (well, duh) but a good deal lighter and more comfortable. M'wife keeps on at me to go on some 'power walks' with her... as I can't find my proper jogging trainers anywhere, I think I'll wear these instead, get them moulded to my tootsies in preparation for the next game day.
Excellent! No need for a duel then?
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8 hours ago, Krisz said:
You couldn't force MED indoor and no need for it when people shoot each other point-blank or sub 10 meters. That's not the point anyway.
This cancer american speedsoft has to go to somewhere else though (mainly speedsoft tournament) because they're absolutely insuffarable most of the time. Speedsoft is fine per se problem is when speedsofters act like they're hot shit and rules only apply to them when they like it or suit them. Spamming trigger on SEMI, peppering people for no reason, blatant cheating, playing with the HPA regulator, so basically the total opposite what you see in Japan. I've seen all of it since I play again indoor and always grind my gears why I paid for this shitshow... I met some cool speedsofters but lot of them absolutely detached from reality.Speedsoft is a different game and should be treated as such.
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2 minutes ago, gavinkempsell said:
Possibly but I did drink plenty fluids between games, I was more likely to have been knackered due to my 21 stones, my 1968 birth date & a general unhealthiness but thanks for your concern.
Ha! Youngsters today have no stamina!
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17 minutes ago, Rogerborg said:
Err... "brand new Ares AEG L85A2". Listed "as new", but the title is unambiguous, and he's comparing it against new, retail prices.
I wouldn't call this bloke a scammer, just a brass necked chancer operating effectively as a trader, without any warranty.
It's all consensual, but a lot of grubby interpersonal transactions are.
Ah, I was looking in the advert itself, not at the title. In the advert he describes it "as new" and only the sight is specifically described as "brand new".
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The power spring in an airsoft gun is a mechanism for storing energy. When the spring is released, that energy is expended in overcoming whatever is preventing the spring returning to its pre-compressed length, which can be friction in the guide rails or between the piston head O ring and the cylinder, or air resistance. Provided that the spring is always compressed to the same length, the energy stored will always be the same, regardless of how that compression is achieved, assuming that the spring strength remains constant..
- Shamal, TacticalWaifu and Cannonfodder
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1 hour ago, Jamsandwich said:
Thought I'd check out the Ambush trailer as I've never even heard of it. That's gone straight into the 'Nope' pile.
I was really surprised by The Covenant though. It went very CoD towards the end but it was solid enough with a pretty good message.
The Covenant is just about ok. Ambush, on the other hand, is garbage; the plot is full of holes, the script is awful and the acting is dreadful.
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48 minutes ago, nwjameson said:
Hi lads,
just wondering if anyone thought the same? my local sites don't seem to get the same numbers as they used to and a few people i followed seemed to have left the sport completely, people come and go but it seems to be a hell of a lot more of the latter.
I'm not as active as a used to be on socials ect however I haven't seen any huge events being talked about either?
I could be completely wrong and just not looking hard enough but wondering if anyone else felt the same since after covid?
The sites that I play at are as busy as ever, if not more so.
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9 minutes ago, Talltom said:
so this is the 4th time its been up still not lowered the price or posted other pictures or said why its labelled as a brand new when its not clearly trying to scam newbies
He is only claiming that the scope is brand new; how do you know it is not?
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9 hours ago, Alex Evans said:
I appreciate the help finding information for this thing is a bitch
Good luck with it; I loved the look of the one I built but I decided to sell it as I could see a lot of problems with it in the future.
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I cannot think of any in Kent, but Tactical Warfare Airsoft, which is only a few miles outside Kent,, is open on Saturdays.
It is a mixture of woods and CQB, but tends to attract a few too many speedsofter types for my current taste. -
10 minutes ago, RostokMcSpoons said:
Air sniper, read and learn 😮💨😄😋
He won't.
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UKAPU seems to make a decent surplus; are they saving for a rainy day or building up funds in case there is an attempt to ban airsoft?
£18,412.55 as a Paypal Balance?????
An interesting set of questions for the AGM, when it eventually happens.