Ian_Gere

Well, Loz, yeah better wiring, Deans, and a MOSFET in general does improve trigger response and ROF, but not by as much as PAS are claiming. I used my modified TM GB as a drop in to skirmish Sabine my tac AK this weekend - I haven't got around to sorting the wiring out yet, other than Deans because all my batteries have them, so it's stock including a fuse (the 25A one burned out with a 1300mAh 25-50C 11.1V LiPo so I replaced it with a 30A). The ROF was about 20-21rps, but the trigger response was very quick (which is what I was after). Compare that to Jetta my G36: a 7.4V 30C 5000mAh LiPo with 16:1 gears and 16AWG wiring, Burst Wizard KK MOSFET and Deans which produces a quicker trigger response than an 8.4V NiMh, but a fractionally slower ROF, at about 15rps. I can recommend Gate NanoAB MOSFETs. I have 1 in my Skorpion and it has made all the difference to the trigger response even compared to with just a 7.4V LiPo (there isn't room in it for heavier gauge wiring).

Having said that, if you want a wooden AFV, it's your gun and if you have access to a programable mill to make it exactly how you want, it'll be cheaper than buying a Romanian style LCT replacement handguard.

I dunno. I wouldn't want funky wooden handguards on any of my AK's. If I want a foregrip I put a polymer or aluminium RIS on there, like this one... ...whom I call Sabine.

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There seems to be a question mark over the reliability of these G&G MOSFETs. Dunno. I mean, if you're going to end up putting a different MOSFET in it, maybe it would make sense to just put one in the G&P. Still, I hate M4's so what do I know?

He was charged. What we need to know was whether it was under the VCRA or the Firearms Act. How on earth did he manage to be found guilty though? I mean yeah, he is obviously a cock, but he did originally gain a place at college so we can assume at least that he can read and string a few thoughts together... and what kind of dipshit is this Mrs Lish his lawyer? How can she possibly have let him say anything in court that cast doubt on whether he had a defence? I was part of an amateur theatre group... yes, my mates and me... never did put the play on... no money to hire a venue... cough... I smell something mendacious about this story. There must be more to it than what has been reported.

12rps is about average for a stock AEG with an 8.4V NiMh battery. You'll get 15-ish from a 9.6V NiMh. IMO 3 round bursts at 15rps are sufficient for most situations. 20rps is excessive but fun. More than that is asking for trouble from your gearbox and will ultimately cost a fair chunk either in replacing knackered bits or buying upgrade parts that can hack it from the get go. People often say that running a 7.4V LiPo increases ROF over an 8.4V NiMh, but this is not necessarily the case. Put simply more voltage makes the motor spin faster and more current produces more torque. But when people upgrade to LiPo batteries, they also often upgrade the wiring and swap to Deans connectors. Just doing that increases the ROF from NiMh batteries noticeably and, at least in the only build I have tested this, my VP Vapex 8.4V 1600mAh NiMh batteries produce a faster ROF than the Component Shop 7.4V 5000mAh 30C LiPo I bought as an upgrade. However, I then upgraded to SHS 16:1 gears and this was enough to bring the ROF with the LiPo up to about what it was with the NiMh's and the stock 18:1 gears, which I would guess at about 14-5rps but with a significantly faster trigger response for the 1st shot. The reason it works like that is because the chemistry of LiPo's ramps up from outputting 0mA to whatever they can deliver as a maximum much faster than an NiMh, but initially the motor requires a higher spike of current (mA) to get going than it needs once it is moving and LiPo's can deliver much more current as well as doing it faster (for eg I remember reading somewhere that, given low resistance wiring.and a battery that can produce it, a high torque motor can draw an initial spike of 67A, not mA, Amps - that's half again as much as an electric cooker with everything turned on!), so while the NiMh is still struggling to output 10A, a 25C LiPo has already delivered 40A. If you stick an 11.1V LiPo into a stock gun (and it works) you'll get 18-ish rps, which feels fast. It's not too fast to be unable to control burst fire just by how long you hold the trigger however and the same goes for the couple or three rps more you'll get from upgraded wiring, Deans connectors, and a MOSFET. Beyond about 22rps you can't get without combining high speed gears with higher voltage batteries and/or high speed motors. You need to think carefully what you want to do with your AEG though - if you don't mind stripping it down frequently then you may enjoy the really high speeds like 25-30+rps, but even if you follow somebody else's tried and tested plan, it's still to a degree a case of trial and error. To get higher than 30rps you need to short stroke the piston (which only works with short barrels) and also choose the lightest piston and piston head (people drill holes in their pistons to shave a few grammes off), but these are ridiculous speeds... As a simple example a convenient top speed for a running person is about 10m/s over a short distance, so if you fire 20 rounds in a second across an arc which is 10m wide at the distance your target is moving, that gives 1 round every 50cm. Theoretically our running person could slip between them, but in practice neither their nor your movement is completely smooth and even, and you correct your aim if the 1st or 2nd, etc miss - it's just not credible that you could miss unless the target uses surprising evasive tactics, or you're so shit at shooting that you may as well go home. But ridiculous rates of fire can be used to intimidate people, especially in close quarters situations, and you can also suppress people and even make them just give up with a high volume of fire ricocheting around them, even though you can't actually hit them. Is it fair? I dunno. Is it fair that someone could turn up with a 2 grand tuned AEG and no clue whatsoever and still shoot the shit out of you from cover because they've got 10m of range on you and even an idiot can't miss when you need to run 1 second straight towards them just to have a chance to shoot them...? A word on high torque motors: there's a popular theory going around which pairs 13:1 high speed gears with a high torque motor as the way forward for a high ROF. This is because the lower the gear ratio, the harder the motor has to work to pull the spring. But high torque motors spin more slowly than most stock ones. Bear in mind that many guns are designed to use M120 or M130 springs, which are a lot harder to pull than the M100 or M105's that we generally use. Also motors such as the ICS Turbo 3000 can be powerful and fast. IMO it isn't necessary to use a high torque motor in the UK. Another way to increase your ROF is to fit a TBB, because this will increase your FPS, so you can fit a weaker spring to still get under 350 or 368FPS or whatever limit you're aiming for - I've just done it myself - M95 spring to get an AK with a 6.03x455mm barrel under 350FPS with the hop on. I also had to put some poxy shotgun spring (or something, I dunno it came in a job lot and basically it was the shittest spring I had) into a gearbox which has a Matrix double O-ring aluminium piston head and a plastic nozzle with an O-ring - because firing through a stock 6.08x455mm TM barrel was giving me 388-92FPS! I put an 11.1V LiPo on it for the lulz and skirmished it this weekend - this is with stock wiring, including a fuse, however and a TM motor, plus an ICS solid aluminium piston, so the ROF was about 20. It was a laugh and it lasted until about 15mins from the end of the day. I haven't even opened it up yet, but my guess is the pinion gear is chewed...

Goggles ffs! They don't search the internet, do they!?!

it makes understanding more difficult for you know what you mean so its obvious when there are no commas ideas just run together we do not live in the same reality words mean different things to different people in different contexts but punctuation helps by defining which words should be taken together as one context Anyhoo, how fast a ROF are you looking for?

Sounds like the rubber may be sitting too far off the barrel perhaps. That said, you wouldn't be the 1st person to have issues with the collar of shark hop rubbers, eh Ed?

Agreed. But please stop calling them googles!

Straps like this stop drop leg holsters from moving about when you run: It's 20mm polypropylene webbing with a simple ladder lock side release buckle. The one from the belt under the crotch goes through an elastic loop which holds them both together with a small amount of play for comfort.

Dyslexia does not prevent anyone from ending sentences with a full stop and beginning them with an upper case letter. Nor does it prevent dividing 2 thoughts within 1 sentence with a comma. How do I know? My best mate of many years was dyslexic (he's dead - his spelling finally got on my wick so much...) and my g/f's dad used to market reading assistant apps for dyslexics.

Are these not the ones which fogged like Jimmy Saville's in a junior school?

I'll happily review any V3 gearbox stuff - I've always got at least 1 in pieces. Likewise barrels, motors, hop rubbers, AK hop units, BB's, batteries...

If you don't have a bike, get one and start using it to go everywhere instead of motor transport. You'll soon be fit. When I was your age I used to do a 3 mile paper round starting with 2 satchels of papers, then ride to school about 3 miles. I could never eat breakfast once I hit puberty (usually still can't) so the upshot for my body was that I couldn't put an ounce of fat on - whatever was excess calories from what I'd eaten the day before was converted to glycogen by my liver, but before being converted to fat, converted back again to glucose to power my mornings. I used to ride home and do an even longer paper round then (I had to call back to the shop for 1/2 the papers because they wouldn't fit in 2 satchels and trying to ride with more than 2 was a major ballache). Now, TBH, I could pretty much hide behind a lamp post, but my musculature was very well toned. I too used to play rugby for my school and also sprint 100 & 200m for a local club, plus I'd play football with mates for hours at a time, or go swimming, or our own sports = cross between hide & seek / tag on bikes but you captured people and they could be released by uncaptured players (releasio) and team tennis on quad skates, played on a length of street about 80m long and the subject of many disputes since there was no net, oh yeah and fighting - there was fuck all else to do! I only found out about the glycogen to and fro because I applied to the army at 16 (I was still riding a lot) and rejected on medical grounds due to protein in my piss. Turns out it's a normal side effect of running your body at peak efficiency, but by the time this was understood, mates of mine who joined up a year ahead of me were home on leave and they had become racist, sexist, big mouthed pricks, so I decided against the military... nevertheless, even though I didn't keep up sports much past about 17 the fitness stayed with me into my late 20's.

What concerns me about the wide bore theory is that it does nothing to the air itself to make it resist a BB moving off centre within the barrel. The BB may start in the centre, due to hop fins or whatever, but vibration from firing and involuntary body movement, not to mention deliberate movement like running, or even shifting aim during full-auto fire, must surely move the barrel around the BB once fired, which then puts more air on 1 side of the BB and, as polished as the inner surface may be it has a higher friction coefficient than air, so the axis of hop induced backspin must be affected: any deviation from exactly perpendicular to the trajectory induces yaw and also reduces range, since it makes the force generated less effective as lift if it is not acting exactly opposite to gravity. I suspect that movement could cause a BB to 'stick' to one portion of a wider barrel, due to the extra air on the opposite side, but if that is not the case, we are being asked to believe that the same effect could overcome one glaring fact: that the wider the barrel, the wider the exit cone of potential trajectories a BB could be on at the moment it leaves the muzzle. Clamped to a bench, yeah I can believe it; in the hands of a person skirmishing - bollocks!

+1 Not just shit, Marvel's Agents Of Shit. Is the nozzle particular to Polarstar in anything other than name and length?

That front end is here. Whatever you spend on an ex-rental gun, or used parts, remember that you can get a new CM.028 for £78.61 posted from gunfire.pl - for sure, not what you are looking for, but between them and taiwangun.com they have pretty much all the .028 variants for between £80-90 posted, and with them, even though you may not want say, a plastic receiver, or a gearbox, or whatever, you do get all the screws, the bolt cover and rail, the little spring which pushes the rail back against the top cover catch (which nobody seems to sell on its own), wiring which is not only passable but excellent to be reused as the signal wire if/when you want a MOSFET in your new build (because the insulation is very tough), and of course the veritable Kalashnikov of the airsoft world, in that you have to do something really stupid to it to fuck it up, a CYMA 02 Ver3 gearbox (which can be had for £37.50 but most ppl don't know that and happily pay £51.34). I'm not suggesting that you do buy one. By all means build your own; fiddling with my guns is almost as much fun as using them to me, just in a different kind of way. I am saying compare the price anyone is offering to what you can have new for the same amount, because as someone else recently stated on here somewhere (Giant Kiwi possibly), the prices which many people imagine their used AEG's and parts are worth are out there with Dr. Sheldon Cooper compared to used sales of anything else generally, market forces pertaining to supply and demand particularly, and just plain rational thought...

Bummer. As you say though, there's next weekend. Hope it was something poxy and cheap to replace? Geoffreym's car is fucked too... Do we have another so we can all go... wooo, spooky?

Be careful you don't cut too much off the rubber's collar or you'll lose compression. Personally I would go with a Prometheus Soft (Purple) rubber and an H-nub. I dunno what kind of hamster droppings the people at Redwolf are firing through AEG's, but I've got a 6.02mm Chromed Brass barrel in my AKS-74U (which I put back in after comparing with a Systema BS 6.04mm). I've also got a PDI 6.01mm in my Vz61 Skorpion. No problems. No jams. No alleged bizarre effects believed to be possible due to an incomplete understanding of the entire system, rather just a part of it, and thereafter spotted 'for real' to be featured in sworn testimony on t'internet. I generally use Blaster 0.25 in the former, 0.2 in the latter, but I have fired maybe 15 thousand BB King 0.2's through the former and a few hundred of them through the latter. I'll be interested to find out how your AEG performs with the 6.2 barrel in the field, inhen, assuming you do get it working. I have to say that I'm sceptical, but obviously I'd like to be proved wrong. Just checking: you do have a tappet plate delayer clip/chip on your sector gear in this build, right?

^^That is a real bollock squash. They're not cheap those prescription inserts...

Guernica With Nerf Darts

LCT AMD-65 not technically an AK and the steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyoooooooooooooooooooooopid foregrip must come off! Neither is the Ares Beryl, although it is an Ares so hmmmmmm and ferhooooooooooooooooooking expensive too.

Obviously inspired by the Dutch masters... or Caravaggio perhaps. You should do a series of them for an exhibition, Monty. L96 And Fruit Madonna And Glock Prometheus Outwits Eagle With Plate Carrier