Ian_Gere

Pistols are male in my mind - they sit around doing fuck all most of the time, unless the rules say it's them or nothing (which includes crappy spring shotties). Totally didn't spot Silent's MBUS's being the wrong way round, Liam it's the kind of mistake I'd make - not because we don't know which way round they go, just because the main thing on the mind would have been taking the pics, not using the sights.

@PT247 Pour moi en fleabay: Flag of CCCP USSR Embroidered 50x100mm Patch - £4.81 posted ~ worldhobby2009 New Matrix Aluminum Piston Head w/ Double O-Ring - £9.72 posted ~ Comrade7.62 Rear Sight 20mm Rail Mount for Airsoft AK - £11.90 posted ~ dualdealshop Element M105 Gearbox Spring - £6 posted Isopropyl Alcohol Wipes for Barrel Cleaning - £1.79 posted ~ dunedin-trading 40ml Tin Dark Oak Gloss Varnish - £3.09 posted 10 pairs Deans T-Plug Connectors - £1.42 posted ~ lotsgoods88 NOS Soviet Russian Army Military Medicine Kit 180x100x65mm Canvas Pouch - £10.99 posted ~ USSR Market As New ICS Scope Mount for AK47 & AK74M - £28 posted From Mean&Green German Army Emergency Ration Kit x 2 (replaces ordered item) - £2.99 for both / ordinarily £6.95 each / currently on sale £1.95 each Original WW2 Black Boot Polish x 3 @ £1 each - £3 Postage from M&G - £3.95 Gate PicoAB MOSFET - £27.50 posted from Fire-Support

I name mine too: CYMA CM.028U - Sabine Ares L1A1 SLR - Agnes HFC mini-shotty - Wilf Palco USP - I've forgotten, possibly Dave ICS AKS-74U - Phatima SRC G36 custom KV - Jetta A&K Dragunov SVD - Svetlana HFC HG-106 - Hans JG V61 Scorpion - don't remember if i did think of a name Inokatsu/TM AK-47S - Tatiana CYMA CM.048 - Morena I'm overdue a full armoury pic... when I get back from my next trip.

Aha! Thx for that, Russ. I had a D-Boys 1000rnd Quad Stack AK mag which wouldn't feed at all because that slider was too stiff = i clipped a couple of mil off the spring and that did the trick. You'd think that they'd notice these things and do something, wouldn't you? Well, so long as i can hold out against cynic mode, I would

Not that that last makes much sense to us without... well, you know

I have tried using a BWKK v1 and it is so complicated that I dunno if it is busted and, if so, whether it came that way or i did it, or whether it's me doing something totally mongish. I had it properly hardwired and it was fine, but my LiPo wasn't fully charged so the LiPo alarm function kicked in - great So I put it on charge and fitted an 8.4V NiMh in the meantime to carry on fiddling with it - uh-er! Our survey says: 89% of people when questioned said their gats preferred MOSFET's working as per the instructions. The LiPo alarm would not stop even though I followed the factory reset instructions to the letter (i think) several times and this carried on when I reconnected the charged LiPo. Anyway I ended up rewiring the switch as per stock and using the FET plug'n'play for 4rnd burst fire, which it did do perfectly, however the crispness of improved trigger response was gone. It's all a bit hazy in my memory now, but i fucked around with it a fair bit to no avail, but then i'd also fucked around with it a fair bit before the alarm 1st went off (and i'm buggered if i can remember what i did) so maybe i did balls it up... The thing is I'm pretty sure i'm not that much of a dick, it's just that my meds make it almost impossible for me to remember details of new experiences unless they are linked to a degree of stronger emotion than general bimbling along / or linked to memories I already have, but that does mean i'm in no position to go whinging for my money back. I realise this is a new version so maybe it's better, but I'd want a squint at the instructions and version improvements before I'd risk it again. On the plus side, while the BWKK works properly it is the dogs' for bells and whistles. You can use it to reduce the rate of full-auto fire without changing the trigger response of the 1st shot, which function I would love to have got working. Gate Pico SSR MOSFET's I can heartily recommend though. There's a new version of those too and an AB, which is on my to buy list.

Pretty good! It'll definitely do. Would be better with some proper cargo net of course, which I'm afraid I've had to put up to £10 posted due to market forces.

SHS gearbox parts seem to be the best you can get for sensible money - I'm using their 16:1's in my G36 (my thinking was not to increase the ROF that much, just to make up for the difference between 7.4V LiPo and 8.4V VP NiMh but TBH I wish I had gone with their 13:1's now). Anyhoo, they sound sweet and there doesn't appear to be any signs of funky wear patterns - I have done my best to shim properly, but iirc the idea is to get the spur gear as far left (low when the box is open) as possible and i think my G36 was the one where I had to put quite a bit of shimming on the left side spur to get it to mesh with the sector quietly (SRC GB shell). I favour SHS shims too and use the copper ones on the inside, against the gears themselves, of all of them, not just the bevel gear. I've also started putting a dab of Copperslip on the inside of the bearing for the shims to slide against. For bearings I'm in love with Kanzen. I haven't even managed to get a set of their top flight ceramic ones yet, I'm just talking about their steel ones - drop of Abbey silicone oil in each. GB slathered in CT-2 Teflon Grease (which since it is silicone grease with teflon suspended in it, is also great for inside the cylinder/on the piston O-ring). I'm planning to upgrade all my guns to 11.1V LiPo's and AB MOSFET's, to use sheer voltage and current delivery capability for trigger response, but stick with medium gear ratios and heavier aluminium pistons and piston heads to keep the ROF down. 1st will be Phatima my AKS-74U - she's way hectic on a Turnigy 11.1V 1300mAh 25C constant 50C burst LiPo, but fires full auto even on semi - I believe the way forward to stop that is the Active Breaking MOSFET - I have 1 off fleabay to test, but I suspect that as soon as they're back in stock I'll be going with Gate Pico SSR AB ones, b/c I was well impressed by the Pico SSR v1 I had (until I cooked it by short circuit doh!). She's in bits awaiting some new metalwork so that'll be happening shortly. Having seen a few anti-reversal latches with worrying looking wear patterns I've come round to the idea that the hardened ones may actually be useful and for higher ROF those steel cut off levers probably are the plan.

Yeah, I meant the cheap papermates, like a biro with a plain cylinder body for most of the length, but near the top it changes diameter to a blim thinner - cutting it there could be perfect for fitting against the mag. ...but while i was trying to find a picture I discovered that I've been using Pilot G2 gel pens for so long that i haven't noticed Papermate seem to have stopped making them! Anyhoo, while i was looking i discovered this:

^^Yeah, or maybe a section of the body of a papermate ball pen...

That's what she said. At least I think it was her phone that needed charging...

Sounds like the only real issue is attaching the tube to the contraption in a way which will be solid enough to take some lateral force without breaking, because otherwise you would have to be so careful with it while trying to use it that the "speed" part of the name would become redundant. Have you considered using a piece of old stock inner barrel? You should be able to get a short 6.08mm one off fleabay for very little more than postage and it may be possible to stuff it inside the mag an inch or so before gluing it in place.

Let's have a look then?

Yeah, i've read a few people say the kwa TT33 looks great but isn't much use. On Red Alliance iirc. The webby where i found the one which is apparently good was Russian, but the gun comes from the USA - prob not made there mind!

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm... Tokarev goodness... Hasn't got a good rep though. There is one that has, but i'm buggered if i can remember what make - it's not a common manufacturer; in fact the only thing i can remember for sure is that it has a double stack mag so 20-odd rounds rather than the 11 which this'n & the SRC both take.

Sidewinder...? Balls mate. TBH it's just as well they've all gone - i've got too many projects on the go as it is and yeah, as much as i could cheerfully walk around in one of those Denison smocks, i wouldn't get much use out of the gun or the rest of the loadout and besides, fuck the boots. I tried a pair on once, back when i was about 17 and my feet were like goat hooves from all th walking around hills in boots i used to do - ammo boots 2 feet 0 I think that helmet idea may work. Just take the turned over 'brim' lip bit off and you're pretty much there. I think the MK2 may have slightly flatter sides than the yank lid, but it may be possible to shape the plastic with something cylindrical to mould it using boiling water. You'd want to have a practice run with the bits you cut off mind, because when plastic goes soft from hot water it happens in an instant and goes floppy in all directions - i'd imagine the best way would be to use some kind of ceramic mixing bowl and press it against one side, inside, squashing against the bottom of a bath - maybe get some help from someone else to dribble the water out of a kettle bit at a time. If you want any authentic looking scrim I've got a listing in the Gear section of the Classifieds. Edit: here be dra... helmet nets

I think he should have sanctions taken against his account for putting a forum patch in that pic.

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__37835__Turnigy_nano_tech_1000mAh_2S_20_40C_Lipo_AIRSOFT_Pack.html actually this is more like it

You cheeky cnut! Puttees

I've got an M150-ish spring you can have for the price of postage, Zak.

...and it appears that remains the case.

Will you be putting a listing in the Classifieds, mate?

I emailed them Tuesday and they still haven't replied.

At this time I CBA to explain in detail. I may come back to it another time, but be assured that we have done this to death: since there has been no logical argument withstanding scrutiny to counter the view that if people act as if something requires a licence, sooner or later it will. Hard to believe that even though the legality of dog licences had been overturned, people used to still buy them... seriously, dog licences. Not dangerous dog licences; dog/wolf cross licences; petrol driven robot dog licences, no, people in the 70's carried on forking out for licences for average family pets, even though even a cursory understanding of how the law works would have told you it was unenforcible, nevermind that it must contravene some kind of right we were granted in the fucking Magna Carta or something, or that if it didn't it bloody ought to so it was high time to revisit the whole concept of rebellion for redress and starting off with a bit of civil disobedience would be right in order... Yeah, ok, so i've gone off on one and been arsed far more than i imagined i was currently capable of, but the central tenet of my point here is unassailable: we are governed by consent. Everytime we voluntarily relinquish even the slightest teaspoonful of that power, as a community, ie consent to more control than already exists, it is the nature of power and those who seek it that somebody will grasp it and sooner or later piss people off with it.

Yeah, i've bought from them twice too - the 1st time was a wallet stinger for a ;little gismo that connects my battery charger to my lappy, but the 2nd was well cheap inc shipping for a couple of good LiPos - thing to do is look at where the stock you are ordering is coming from cos it tells you if it's in the UK warehouse already. They've been fine with customer service too. Just bear in mind that the Turnigy Accucell 6 charger which Component Shop sell for £34-odd is the exact same machine as the iMax B6 but in a different colour box which Hobby King sell a lot cheaper - CS are also a bit kerching happy with the price of mains power supplies to plug chargers into.