Colin Allen

I had very similar symptoms with a RIF and it was exactly as Adolf states. Over time, the motor height adjustment screw backed off; when the piston was almost the whole way back, the resistance in the gearset was such that the pinion slipped on the bevel. A tiny drop of thread lock on the adjustment screw solved the problem.

Several years of marshalling gave me a very jaundiced view of most airsofters and almost resulted in me giving up the hobby.

The scuffing is irrelevant; you were sold a faulty item that they then failed to fix. Contact Citizens' Advice.

I cannot remember what it was when I got it as it was a few years ago; it is now running at about 1.05J after an extensive rebuild last year.

After last week's disappointment of the event we had booked being cancelled, today I took the safe option of wandering across the Thames into darkest Essex and the small but perfectly formed Tower Airsoft. The site was not the only thing that was small today; rather surprisingly, there were only 21 in attendance. However, the marshalling team did a good job of rejigging the planned games to make them work. First off was a game in which the attackers (Red) had to grab a flag from the castle and get it into the church and wave it. There was a time limit to the game but victory over the two legs would be decided by which side took fewer hits while attacking. Defenders had three lives, with a 30m fallback after being hit, while attackers had infinite regens on a marshal. After we had dug in around the castle and the bush Wookies had disappeared to do whatever bush Wookies do together in the woods, we waited for the enemy's attack and then waited a little longer. Finally, it arrived, with BBs flying in all directions; after potting a few attackers, I was hit and fell back to a position in front of the church. After a while, a shout went up that the flag had been grabbed and was moving forwards; eventually, a decent firefight broke out and, again after sending a few Reds back where they came from, I was hit and pulled back behind the church, from where I could make sure that nobody was sneaking around behind it. Everything seemed to go rather quiet for quite a long time until the reds finally launched an attack, during which they managed to get a gas grenade into the church but did not have anyone left alive to storm it. Having returned from the dead, they tried again but ran out of time, having taken 47 hits. Talking to some of the red team, we found out why it had gone quiet; four of their ten players (a group of milsim types), who were new to the site, had got rather lost and found themselves the wrong side of the deadfall that protects the church from flank attacks on one side. Following a hydration break, we played another game. We had to assault the village from the bus yard, find four data disks and return them to the bus yard, from where they and we would be exfiled. This was great fun; we assaulted the village from two directions and, after lots of hairy firefights with the resolute defenders, managed to grab all four disks and get the last one back to the exfil just within the time limit. Then we got a nasty surprise; someone had blundered! The exfil was delayed and friends of the previous defenders were coming back to prevent us getting away; they must come from a very inbred community as they looked identical to the folk who had previously been defending the village! This led to some great firefights, with the SLR reaching out and touching people; by the time the exfil arrived, about half of us were left alive. After lunch, we turned round the Castle/Church game. We decided to carry out a mass flank attack from the right, driving forward en masse, while the bush Wookies kept the defenders, and themselves, amused frontally. This worked very well; we cleared the castle in short order, grabbed the flag and headed towards the church. Again, we organised a mass attack while a couple of us kept the defenders in the church tower pinned down by peppering the windows with BBs. After getting a teensy bit bogged down due to a solid defence, this strategy eventually succeeded and the flag was waved in the church well within the time limit, with us having taken 25 hits. When we got back to the safe zone, the milsim types decided to go home; apparently, one of them had been getting somewhat upset about getting shot rather a lot and had been a bit shouty about it. Three other players on the Red team also had to leave to go to work, leaving only a chap and his two lads. As there were now only 14 players, the marshals decided to spend the last hour of the day playing a number of games in the bus yard; as this is not something that I am particularly keen on, I decided to pack up and leave having had a good, fun day. Weapons used: Ares SLR Real Sword Type 97 My longest and shortest rifles! Milbro M1911 Classic (CO2)

Reading the description was highly amusing; one issue after another appeared. Oh, the irony.

Indeed.

This chap "joined the community" and posted a sales ad seven minutes later; I thought that members had to post a certain number of times before they could put up a sales ad. Decent price though.

And let's be honest, they almost certainly will snap at some point.

No airsoft for me this weekend; we had planned to go to a site near Stoke-on-Trent, but they messaged on Thursday to say that the event was cancelled. Our backup plan was to crack out 14 miles on Bleaklow, visiting the plane crash sites, but the weather forecast is for heavy rain and possibly thunder and lightning:(. Oh well, there is always next weekend.

Ali Express is fine; I have ordered quite a lot of stuff over the years and have never had a problem.

Over many years, I have seen far more of them without the right side selector than with it. Removing the right hand selector, along with the gear wheels and shaft, means that you do not have to remove the remaining selector to remove the gearbox.

The selectors on the A&K Masada are notoriously awful; neither of mine has a right side selector any more.

Surely not!

Likewise; I still have a couple, although they are pretty much unrecognisable now. The entry level G&G weapons do seem to have been left behind somewhat, don't they?

It is new, but has been sitting around for five years and has some shit weathering.

Running a binary trigger is not using semi; I cannot see a legitimate reason for using one.

I use an L85 sling with a clip to fit it on the front sling point.

The brown M&Ms test.

They do, which will have a significant impact on the power delivered at the nozzle.

My lawyers will contact you.

I know that you were not; my comment was intended to point out that your "flavouring" argument was somewhat flawed. Penalising innocent people because other people are tempted to commit crimes is perverse and is essentially an act of surrender to the criminals. I don't use BFGs. However, watching, and providing covering fire for, the lad as he works his way through a village armed with two BFGs and a pistol is like watching Messi at his peak; training wins every time. I suspect that he would still play if he could not use them, but why should he have to give up using them because some thieving cunts cannot keep their hands off other people's property?

I remember seeing reports of other kit being stolen in safe zones, including helmets and pistols; should those be banned as well? After all, they could equally be considered “flavouring”. Banning BFGs because people might steal them is perverse. I disagree as to why we are at Airsoft sites. We are there to play a game; bangs, whether they are BFGs or paper pyro, are very much part of that game at sites where they can be used.

So sites should ban them because thieving cunts sometimes steal them? The "logic" behind that is somewhat worrying.

Bravo are the new HPA. Are you really complaining about getting hit on the lenses? That happens. I suspect that you are massively overestimating the accuracy of airsoft toys and the ability of those who use them. You really should take up a more suitable hobby; maybe you could try macramé.