rtong

Hi, I've been out of the Airsoft world for years but got my old rifles down from the attic and thought I'd share my hop 10 year old hop experiment that still shoots incredibly consistent straight shots. I messed about with r-hops and flat hops which were the rage back then, I figured the larger the contact area the less chance of a perfect distribution of pressure, (the bb is likely to grab slightly to the left or right). I decided to chop off the end of a cheap barrel and file a tiny window, which was actually not easy as you end up with large metal burrs that you need to carefully file away with vertical strokes. I just stuck some rubber over it and it just works. Is this something that has been tried? I'd imagine it would be hard to mass manufacture due to the burr clean but I'd love to see something like it in the market.

Thanks Mike, sorry for the late response. Let me know how the new mags work when you get them, that may be the best solution. I've had the cylinder open to inspect the mechanism and can't see an obvious fix, there is a spring in the nozzle system that I may experiment with. The strength of the nozzle spring seems to govern the speed that the nozzle retreats (the sooner it retreats the more time the bb has to load into the hop chamber). The problem though with making the spring weaker is that this same spring is also used to press the nozzle against the bucking creating an air seal. I think I may start by putting in a braking mosfet to get consistency with the starting position of the sector gear.

Lonex mag

Has anyone else had feed issues with their katana? It fires every other bb, there seems nothing random about it it fires then doesn't fires then doesn't very consistently on both semi and full auto. I'm fairly experienced with airsoft mechanics but I find this odd. To me it looks like the timing of the nozzle is out, if it was a mag issues would the problem be so predictable. I've tried two different hop chambers and I was using a fully wound lines mag. Rich