Ian_Gere

Good job, but... 10" isn't a long barrel, it's SMG length & you don't need a UKARA registration to paint your gun black: the defence against prosecution for "Manufacturing a Realistic Imitation Firearm" applies to you if the gun is going to be used for airsoft, so if you are an airsofter of any age, that's you, whether you are a member of a site or not. The slide for the hop unit looks like a standard TM compatible AK type, but we cannot see it very well - can you tell? When you moved the fire selector it looks like it is shifting a standard AK geared lever internally - is it? Does the flash hider unscrew? If so, is it a 24mm CW thread? Cheers

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Wish I was...

Even the shittiest Army of 2 knock off mask will stop 'a' BB - it's the once a year when you get rinsed full-auto to the face that you need to guard against; that and falling over something because you can't see where you're going. You will probably have to go through several types before you find ones which work well for you, unless you can try before you buy to find out what shape/s fit your face properly - then it's just finding the right mesh or the right anti-fog regime. But the truth is that, without a fan, it will always be a compromise between safety and vision...

Said it before and, no doubt, i'll say it again - there's no point preserving a warranty if you don't use it. That FH sounds tortured - send the poxy thing back. You shouldn't have to rip the guts out of a stock gun to stop it sounding like it's powered by cats being electrocuted...

There are a lot of people in this country whom, if they were armed, would worry me sufficiently to leave. People can argue all they like about people killing people, but the fact remains that it's a damn sight easier to do with a firearm and, whereas you could lose your shit and wade into somebody with anything, including your bare hands, and kill them, the fact that you have to step right up and do the ugly deeds at close range means that you may well not go the whole hog, may simply injure that person rather than kill them. But a moment's rage, or stupidity, with a gun in your hand... I also don't trust UK police to be habitually armed and, if the populace had easy access to firearms, there would be no stopping that from happening. It's sad because, in principle, I agree with the idea that the populace should have the means to overthrow the government easily to hand. But then again, when you look at 20th century and even recent US history, I'm not sure that the argument does actually hold any water... I mean where were the Minutemen when JFK was assassinated (as just one mahoosive example)? Oh right... applauding. In this day and age it's the new media, t'internet, to which we must jealously maintain access. But again, this is to miss the point totally. AEG's are toys. It is difficult to do, but if we are ever going to see the VCRA quietly superceded by legislation which basically repeals it (without appearing to, since the establishment never actually says "we fucked that one good stylee - oops"), we need to find language with which to discuss the issues without reference to firearms at all...

That bloke is on the UKARA board... I may take an extra pair of shoes so I have a spare pair to throw...

I don't actually remember much of Crocodile Dundee, just the bit where he stops dry shaving with a Bic and gets his fuck off knife out to carry on... Bear Grylls wouldn't do that though - he'd find some kind of plant that melts your face off...

Conspicuous by its absence above: the link. I may get there for one of the days, especially if I can combine it with a visit to the RSC or something because then I can get my g/f to go halves on the costs I've haven't been before so I'd like to have a wander around with my wallet shivering in fear...

Send it back, mate. If manufacturers get the idea that we don't give a toss, who knows what will be bent next? Er... does "get bent" sound familiar?

IMO any other suppressor than a PBS1 looks wrong on an AK-74. There are a number of different manufacturers, but you will want one which is definitely aluminium, not aluminium alloy, or it will be very heavy. Sights are also a thorny issue. There is no doubt that red dot sights, make target acquisition faster, but many of them do not look right on AK's, particularly AK's with wooden furniture. The Kobra sight is the best looking, but the replicas are out of stock worldwide. There is a new-ish PKA replica sight available, which I think KH Mountain have in stock. Or you could go with a C-More style sight on a dual side mount, which will look more tactical than a simple side mount. You could also fit a laser on the dual mount, although red lasers are useless outdoors.

Actually swords with curved blades are subject to restriction, i think banned from sale, but i'm not sure how that affects those already owned by people - i haven't been bothered to find out b/c my sword has a straight blade... Why do i have it? Because an AEG is no use if i need to fuck somebody up in a hurry. If I was in a frame of mind to shoot up a town centre though, I'd spray a gun orange so I could produce it and walk to wherever i wanted to begin my madness without freaking people out. The VCRA... protecting us The danger when we are talking about this situation however is to conflate our toys with firearms. So they look like guns. So the average person could not tell many AEG's from real steel no matter what colour they were, even if you put one in their hands. So a nutter could threaten somebody with an RIF and that person would be in fear of their life. Whoop-de-doo! People who have been shot would no doubt happily explain that being shot is a lot worse than fearing being shot. The real issue however is, as Chock alluded to, that the whole thing is a non-issue cooked up by a perfect storm of self serving politicians, media who know that peddling fear sells papers, and do gooders who, given half a chance, would attempt to legislate away absolutely any potential danger, even gravity if they could only work out how. There never was a crime wave involving RIF's and although there are some stats which claim that gun crime has gone down since the introduction of the VCRA, in fact the number of offences is miniscule compared to, for eg., good old British punch ups in the street. But the stats do not distinguish between arrests in which a firearm or RIF was an integral part of the offence and arrests where it was subsequently discovered that the perp was carrying a firearm, RIF, or IF, so in actual fact we have no idea what effect, if any, the VCRA has had on actual crime. Whoa though... surely if someone was arrested for something and happened to be carrying an RIF, it's reasonable to assume that they were up to no good with it, so the inclusion of that arrest in gun crime stats is fair enough, eh? Well, I was once arrested because the person with whom I was walking had an outstanding warrant for something poxy. I was searched and it was discovered that about my person I was concealing a rubber glove, a file, a swiss army knife, aaaaaaand... a water pistol. Clearly I was not only "Going Equipped" to commit burglary, but also planning to threaten people with my WW1 Webley stylee black water pistol with its bright orange tip and the police were quite correct to refer to it as "The Firearm" throughout the ensuing interviews, despite the fact that neither I nor my solicitor could stop ourselves giggling everytime they said it (it was the pomposity - you had to be there). Now, it is true that I have not always been the law abiding citizen I am now, but trust me on this, if I had been going equipped to burgle, I would have had 2 gloves and equipment which would have been good for breaking into premises, not for fixing a bike pedal and, having found a water pistol in the street, I would not have picked it up to give to the child of a friend but would have left it there and got on with the fucking burglary. Nevertheless, this is one incident which made up the pre-VCRA firearms arrests stats...

The FH sounds like a nasty shim job and not enough grease to me.

How about one of these? You could fit a wooden lower handguard to that... The body is not steel however.

Well, the CM.048 is an AK-74, and waffle mags are generally AK-47 banana mags. You can get Beta Project AK-74 mags with a waffle design though, but they are not cheap. You may want to have a look at the CM.048M which is an AKM-47... although many 47 mags will fit in airsoft 74's. Longer barrels do not improve accuracy, generally. Although if you replace the stock barrel, with a much better quality one, it will improve accuracy, however that would be true, even if the replacement were shorter than the original. To fit a folding stock, to an AK with a wooden stock, is not so simple. AK's with side folding stocks, have a different receiver design, to those with wooden stocks. You can fit a stock adapter, which will allow you to use AR stocks - like this, or this. But the classic tactical AK folding stock, like this, does not fit onto a CM.048 - you could modify it however, because the basic design is similar. But if your plan is to turn a CM.048 into a TX-63, you will not be able to do it with off the shelf parts.

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I've put one in a JG Vz61 Skorpion which is the same gearbox, although it is reputedly stronger. I also fitted an Gate Electronics Pico AB MOSFET - hey I'm planning to fit SHS gears and a magnesium alloy piston with a 130% spring and move up to 11.1V LiPo but may as well at least fit the Pico SSR 2 MOSFET while you're at it because you will have to cut away a lot of the plastic which holds the 7.2V stock battery in place in order to get a LiPo in there, so you'll have the room. The pisser is that there really isn't enough room to fit heavier gauge wiring, although I'm considering doubling up with standard thin insulation 20 gauge...

If this is a long term project, you might want to wait and see how I get on with the Burst Wizard BW3 MOSFET I've just ordered, because it's a lot cheaper than an ASCU and has more functions, for eg you can program it to enforce a pause set between 0.2s and 2s between shots (which some sites require you to mentally comply with when using semi-auto sniper rifles/DMR's), plus it allows pre-cocking which gives trigger response equal to a springer.

Weeeeeell, it's a complex subject, but the simple answer is... sort of As has been said, the majority of the sound which an AEG generates does not come from the muzzle but radiates directly out through the sides of the receiver, but there is a both a shock wave and compression wave which travel down the barrel (the former at the speed of sound, the latter at whatever speed the air expands and mainly blocked behind the BB {hence the way dry firing sounds different to loaded firing}). Unfortunately the usual ways of dealing with these phenomena are mutually exclusive: the shock wave is best muffled by something absorbtive, the more and the denser the better, so rock wool is a big fav in sound studio design; but the compression wave, the deep bass thump produced by releasing compressed air, is best dealt with by enclosed expansion chambers with openings as small as possible... but if those chambers are full of foam, for eg, the air cannot expand into them without compressing the closed cells of the foam - if the foam is open cell then it should allow expansion more easily, however the substance of the foam is still taking up volume and volume is the crucial factor... since the more the air expands within a chamber, the less pressure is available to exit into the next chamber, and so on. Something else to bear in mind is the actual length of the waveforms involved and the size of suppressors - wavelength is calculated by the formula lambda = speed of sound / frequency so, if you think about the ports in your hifi speakers, they are tuned to increase the output of the bass around 50-60Hz which you hear in music as the 'umph' of the kick drum, which is a handy comparison since it is made by a similar process of air being compressed inside a large drum escaping through a small port directly into a mic... 343m/s / 50Hz = 6.86m ...thus you can immediately see that even a long suppressor, say 250mm, full of foam is 3/5ths of fuck all compared to the wavelengths of the bandwidth carrying the majority of the energy in the sound. Still, when you think about the bandwidth of consonants in speech, 5-6KHz, which compares nicely with the obvious crack produced by piston head on cylinder head, 6.86-5.72cm, it's a different story. There is also a phenomenon known as Helmholz Resonance, which has to do with air moving in/around chambers with specific volumes compared to aperture size (usually but not necessarily tubes) which affects us because a tubular suppressor has a resonant frequency and if this is excited out of phase with sound moving through air around the tube, it cancels out a portion of the bandwidth of similar frequency. In some real steel suppressors (and BMW exhausts) this effect is calculated mathematically, but for us it's really just a case of trial and error. And having mentioned phase, we must also consider the effect of sound bouncing around inside the suppressor: obviously for longer wavelengths this matters not at all, but for wavelengths short enough to fit within the dimensions of the tube, some of those frequencies will reflect off the walls of the tube, plus any internal barriers, and combine with the sound emerging from the muzzle out of phase, although some of those reflections will also be in phase, so as well as reducing the amplitude/'volume' of some frequencies, it will boost others. But when you consider the complexity of how sound bounces around inside a tube, you'll not be surprised to learn that the net effect is to generally reduce the amplitude of the higher frequencies, with just a few which emerge unscathed/boosted in an effect which is known as 'comb filtering'. A complicating factor is that, in the UK, it is illegal to manufacture a device intended to reduce the report of a firearm, which greatly reduces our choice of materials, because whatever we build must fail immediately if you were to fit it to the muzzle of an actual firearm and fire it. On top of that, when the BB leaves the barrel, due to hop up, it has a tendency to rise slightly which means that the gap down the centre of the suppressor must be wider than would be ideal for the expansion chamber theory because, although we could experiment to find exactly how high a 6.08mm hole in each internal barrier should be, in comparison to a straight line from the centre of the barrel, this would only work clamped to a bench - out in the field when it's subject to slight imperfections of horizontal level and involuntary body movements, given the best circumstances, and wholesale bobbing about when firing whilst running, for eg, the BB's hit the internal barriers (I've tried it). IMO the best design to go with, which most people could make easily enough, is one which uses foam barriers, glued to the internal walls of the tube to form separate expansion chambers, each of which should be a different length to give you a better spread of Helmholtz Resonance. This allows the foam to flex and spring back so that its mechanical springiness will have a slight effect on frequencies lower than those which its thickness would tend to suggest (this is a phenomenon well understood in studio design where you try to leave a space between your rock wool and the solid wall behind). You can, and if possible should, use barriers with tighter holes than are generally provided through the foam rings in stock suppressors and a denser foam is desirable also. This is a very simplified diagram of the design: The effect is to dampen the upper frequencies of the sound which emerges from the muzzle. This change of note is of slightly more significance than the simple slight reduction of overall volume, because bass frequencies are more difficult for us to locate than higher frequencies, due to the distance between our ears being much less than the wavelength of bass frequencies. So, if you also fit ICS helical gears, for eg, and shim them well, Kanzen or Modify Ceramic bearings, Teflon grease, and either Sorbothane pads to the piston head and/or cylinder head, so called 'silent' piston head and cylinder head set, or a Lees Precision Engineering air brake piston head, you can significantly reduce the sound an AEG makes and also make it more difficult for the opposition to know which bush you are firing from... At some point I really should get round to writing this info up as a proper guide, but I also have an idea in mind based on a particular type of real steel suppressor which may be a fair bit more effective than the above design, but I just haven't been arsed to try it out yet... Oh yeah, and before I forget, James... I know it bugs the arse off you, but let's have it right - if you do nothing else to a gun other than fit a longer internal barrel, then, so long as the barrel is of at least the same quality as that which you replaced, you will get slightly more FPS, no reduction in hop stability, and therefore slightly more range. That doesn't mean that a different gun with a shorter barrel might not have better range, or that you cannot get that increase in range in another way than replacing the barrel, but there we are, all things hop-wise being equal, more FPS = more range, and longer barrels do allow the expansion of air behind the BB to accelerate the BB for longer... Edit to add: that diagram is actually incorrect with respect to the position of the BB, because the shock wave, the sound which bounces around inside the tube, arrives well ahead of the BB, not behind it. But trying to draw it that way was just complicating the issue.

Unfortunately the reason this is happening is because the gun is a POS. If you are having a laugh with it as is, fine. Don't go spending good money on better BB's because it will still be shite. Buy yourself a decent starter AEG, like a G&G Combat Machine from Pro Airsoft Supplies, or a CYMA CM.028A / or .028U AK-47, some eye protection, some boots, in fact read this, then put your hideous springer away in the attic until you get good at airsoft. Then take it out and carry it as a back up back up (at least that's what you tell people) and when you see an opportunity to pop someone point blank, when you can sneak up on them and proper pwn them, draw your POS, pwn them, then wave it in their face to rub it in...

Well, if the same battery runs one gun fine and when you swap it straight into another gun it doesn't run fine, the 2nd gun is at fault, eh? Mini Tamiya connectors are not very good because both sides connectors are formed from thin brass which is easily bent, so there could easily be a poor connection between one of the pins and its corresponding sleeve. Shine a torch into the female connector and see if there is any shite in there, or if one looks wider than it should. You may be able to sort it out with long nose pliers. If that is not the case, and you are sure of the motor connections, the next most obvious culprit is the trigger - it may be possible to clean it by spraying some computer Drive Cleaner in there, but I'm not sure this is such a good idea, considering that it would get into the interior of the gearbox and may dissolve grease you want to stay where it is. Other than that, there's no point having a warranty if you don't invoke it...

Mini Tamiya connectors or Deans?

You go here to check that a player is registered. However, as has been noted, a UKARA registration is not the only means of proving that the defence applies to a sale to a particular person - a photo of them airsofting for eg is perfect. Do note that although the VCRA is the law and therefore, if something really egregious did happen and there was no other way to prosecute those involved, no doubt the Crown Prosecution Service would attempt to proceed with such a case, however you should also be made aware that ACPO, the Association of Chief Police Officers, have stated that the law is unenforcible and that the police will not attempt to enforce it where it is simply trade law - some police 'services'/forces have attempted to push enforcement onto local government officials, Trading Standards Officers, however they have said no fucking way... and you can see why - it is the simplest thing in the world to lie your way out of - in fact, if you read the actual wording of the law, you'll see that you'd have to be trying to get prosecuted to lose the case More importantly however, anything which you may do with an RIF which would bring you to the attention of the police was and remains an offence under the Firearms Act, which is a lot simpler and criminalises only verifiable, evidence defined, behaviour. The other Act which they would turn to if they felt that they did not quite have enough on you under the Firearms Act is the Public Order Act, which basically makes anything which the police determine is annoying an offence. Prima facie it may seem difficult to imagine how selling something to somebody with which they then went off to do something stupid could be a public order offence, but trust me on this, the way the both POA's are written, if they wanted you in jail, they could find something... The upshot then is that, as a vendor, what you need to determine about the buyer is not so much whether they are an airsofter as whether they are a dick. And over 18...