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I bought this on a whim recently, as a small project, and got to the point where I'm wanting to remove the safety to access the air nozzle/ cylinder assembly. Unfortunately, all the guides online don't cover the VM9, And it's just different enough so that the WE/Maruti etc. guides don't apply. I can't remove the safety Switch in order to remove the rest of it, and now I'm a bit stumped. (see photos below) It looks like I should just have to remove the right hand lever, the little securing screw and then rotate the main safety on the left side clockwise so that it's free from the slide and then it should just pop out easily. Does anyone have any experience with this, or suggestions? Thanks! *Never mind! It was the actual nozzle/cylinder unit itself that was getting in the way. That needed to be slid forwards as you remove the safety. I knew that once I'd posted this, I'd end up sorting it! 🤡😂

Try one of these. https://www.bztactical.co.uk/rebel-battery-1450mah-lipo-11-1v-30c-stick-mini-tamiya Looks to be smaller than the one you linked. What gun is it for?

I've had both the clones and TM, and tbh. I'd never go back to a clone nowadays. The trigger isn't as good, the mags are finicky, and the feed lips are more fragile - they don't load as smoothly. Plus, I've always had issues with performance of the clones after a while, where the power drops, and often doesn't feed. Contrast that with the Marui versions that I've had for several years, and had no issues.

A Christmas bargain! Cyma M40A3 For only £400, and no details whatsoever. You don't even get the scope. 🥲 https://prefired.co.uk/ads/cyma-cm-700a-m40a3-spring-sniper-rifle/

As Galvatron says, this is actually a good time in Airsoft to get back into the second hand market sales, with discords updated TOS crushing one of the most popular platforms for sales. Advertising would definitely be one route to add sustainability to it on a financial basis, as well as what some of the other second hand sales sites do; (Either Prefired or Used Airsoft, I can't remember which) which is to charge a small amount weekly for adverts, with the option of additional services, such as highlighting, putting adverts to the top etc. as well as buying a 6 month to a year membership that allows unlimited adverts without paying for each one individually. The platform itself is sound, it's unfortunately just the deficient IQ of some of the users that have made it a pain to use (but this can be said about Airsoft as a whole really!) As an aside @ItsDave had anyone ever messaged you before, regarding the lack of emails/notifications, or was this just an unknown issue to you?

Just had a brief talk with one of the admins or staff of AirsoftHub after an idle message that tbh, I didn't think would actually go anywhere. They've said that the notifications issue should be rectified now, and they've also added dates to all placed adverts so you can see when they were posted now. After this, it goes a long way to seeing why a lot of sellers I've messaged never actually reply; as some adverts were over a year old in some cases! If anyone else uses it, either as a seller or buyer, can you post and let us know if the notifications issue has actually been sorted? It'd be much appreciated. I'd do it myself, but there's nothing on there I can find that I'm interested in, now I can see the age of each advert! 😅 Ah, what timing! 😂 I literally just posted about this and saw that someone had replied as I was typing it out. @ItsDave I'm the one that messaged you earlier, I'll be quite honest, after all the other views and comments regarding the site, I assumed that it was already a dead site, or at least on its way there. I messaged more out of frustration than anything, not expecting to hear back from anyone, but I'm very surprised and pleased to have got such a quick reply, let alone actually having anything done about it, so I'll say thank you for that!

Try the appraisals section.

You're also missing out on his (undisclosed) ex two-tone HPA L96 with an upgraded motor(?) 🤔 https://airsoft-forums.uk/classifieds/item/58580-hpa-sniper-rifle/

It's useless. Had the same thing recently with multiple people, and no-one ever bothers to check their adverts. Unless they put on a phone number or other way to contact them in their advert, don't even bother.

Where in the north are you?

I did it for you 😂

Well it just came with the gun. Idk if you can source one new separately, so it'd probably have to be acquired second hand.

Adding Mine that have already been on here in a different thread, but why the hell not?

I don't think it's compatible with anything unfortunately. It's a cheap, basic "almost-but-not-quite" VSR that's off-spec just enough to not fit any of the common parts.

£400 for a cyma boltie 😶 https://prefired.co.uk/ads/cyma-cm-700a-m40a3-spring-sniper-rifle/

Well he's reduced the prices yet again...but still well over their brand new price! 250 for the striker and 300 for the leaky shotgun 🤡 At this rate If we keep it up, how many posts do you think it'll take to get to a reasonable price?

I had to join in on the fun. 😂

As long as you're having work done in something fairly common you should be ok. I too a vz58 in for some work on the hop unit over Covid that left it worse than if I'd never bothered, and I left a VSR with them a couple years ago to drill the hole so I could install a GunSmithy Tdc set that they kept for a few weeks before saying they couldn't do it. That was a few years ago now though, so I can't comment on their current work, but unless it's basic V2/3 gearbox work I'll just stick to their retail side, which is great.

Probably not tbh. It's Ares and a bit unusual, so I'd wager that replacement parts aren't readily available.

No, not what you might infer from the title. This isn't about reconnecting with people you might have once known. I'm talking about guns. After previously seeing an advert for something I thought may have once been mine it made me think about this. For those that have been playing a while we'll have inevitably worked our way through a plethora of guns, from the first AEG we ever bought, to the beloved bolt action that we traded and soon regretted, to the impulse buy shotgun that never even got used and was sold shortly after. Have you ever come across something that you've previously owned and sold, whether it's still owned by the same person or it's even passed on to someone new? I'm not talking about selling them to someone you know and see regularly and therefore it's barely even gone, but more you've posted one off to someone halfway across the country; only to later bump into it and instantly recognise it, or you took it down to a bring & buy sale and then saw it online at a later date. Did anyone ever buy it back? Was it being sold for more than you parted with it? Any other interesting or amusing stories connected to this? Off the top of my head, I recall meeting Someone at a somewhat local site, but not one I often visit who remembered me selling them a modern magpul style AK, and was actually still using it on the day; running strong a couple of years later! And then fairly recently Seeing an ASG M15 with a distinctive paint job go up on discord that I recognised as mine straight away, being sold at a price probably a bit more than I'd sold it for! Interested to hear from anyone else!

It's still the stock one! It was purely down to the standard JG hop unit being 0.5mm off spec.

A little*too* well, in fact! With an M95 in, and the 500mm XT barrel it was putting out 1.22J Luckily this version has a quick change gearbox so with a little rummage through my bag o'springs™ it's now a satisfying 1.1J.