Hudson

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.

Ok well I got around to trying out the Marui hop unit, along with an XT barrel and everything seems to be running very well. No misfeeds, drops in power or anything so far so fingers crossed, it all seems to be solved! 😃

Bitten the bullet and bought a new TM hop unit, so I'll be able to see if this solves the issue at least!

I'm pretty sure they were both marked mp5 in mine, the nozzle was around 21.5mm

I keep the old post on my phone as a handy guide, although it's definitely outdated nowadays!

ORKS ORKS ORKS

I'm glad I'm not the only one that does that! 😅

Ok so there's definitely a big difference between the two then! Have you managed to try the TM hop unit with a new barrel yet? It seems like that might be usable, although it may require a different length air nozzle. I shall definitely have to source one myself to test out! Thank you

Thanks, I've got a spare JG one at home, so I'll compare the dimensions with that and see if there's any difference. 🙂

If it makes sense without being able to actually show you, then the entire length of the unit, minus the hop wheel, and the measurement from the rear of the hop unit to the rear end of the space for the barrel clip would be good, please! Thanks

What issues are you having? It appears okay on my end.

Despite being the same price, it looks to be both two different locations and two different phone numbers. At least the one here actually has some photos, at the very least!

Nice! Keep us posted! If you have some calipers, Would you be able to measure the TM Vs JG hop unit while you're at it, please?

What gas are you using and how much over is it?

Just as above really. I've had to stick with the original barrel and air nozzle and it's working fine now. Looks to just be a design flaw on Jing gongs end. All the other barrels I have currently seem to be approximately 22.5mm to the C-clip notch, so that's my only option currently. If I can get a hold of a marui hop unit then I'll see if there's any difference in dimensions that would allow me to use a better barrel, but for now it's doing ok. Took it out to a game yesterday and it ran fine with no issues. Currently sporting a new paint job to boot!

I've got two phone apps I use for this, to make it easy if it's for a weight or power I haven't memorised. First is the Airsoft ballistics calculator, that one just lets you find the power of a specified weight BB at whatever velocity you get. Second is/was called FPS calc basic. This one works in reverse, where you put in the required joule limit and it'll show you what the FPS limits will be for a large variety of BB weights. I don't know if this one is still available to download as a quick look on the app store didn't immediately bring it up.