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Also, don't clean the length of your barrel with any oils as lots of buckings love to swell up as they adsorb it. Use isopropyl alcohol to clean it thoroughly (all the way up to the end of the barrel) then swab some oil (I'd just recommend pure silicone) down the length of the barrel but be sure to stop short of the hop unit as you don't want it getting on there. The silicone will help stop residue from the BBs building up inside the barrel.

Brilliant. I'd still probaably go for the CM-16 - their new ones are great and if you get a lemon then sending it back will be very straight forward.

I'm sorry but I have to ask as you're a new member and I don't want to see you waste your money: Are you UKARA registered?

Yeh well, already looks like it's gone through hell (the frame, that is) so maybe I'll try to make it skirmishable.

I did look into buying the adjustable hop unit. Thing is to get one shipped over here is going to cost me in the region of about £35 and so taking a gamble on it fitting isn't something I really want to do. This is the classic Zeke kit by the way, so it's been discontinued for about 5 years and are really hard to get a hold of. The frame is from a chap in Greece and the slide came all the way from Japan, bought a donor M9 from some guy over here, and the grips are reel steel walnut ones from Czech Republic, so whether or not I want to make it a regular skirmishing gun (with a nice hop and barrel to boot) I don't know. I'll lay it all out tonight and see if I can be bothered to get it working The trigger bar/reset thingy was really annoying me last time as it was making the double-action super annoying for the first shot (sometimes just failing to shoot at all).

They do sell them, but most require you to prove you've a legitimate use for them. You must have a valid defence to buy an RIF, though the liability is on the seller to check it. You'll notice that all of the sales on that particular website are done face-to-face. As for the valuation: I'd say not above £60-70 with the magazines. It's a cheap brand, unknown wear and tear and also plastic is a turn off for certain people. Even the most reputable branded M9s like Maruis rarely go for more than £140 with two magazines anyway.

And yet we correct people on saying 'licence' when we know exactly what they mean. If you can't get your head around it then just use 'you are' and 'your' - there's no shame in that (English is dumb at times). Basically pure laziness. The frame needs properly fitting to the slide and it's going to be a few hours to do. I'll probably get it done though. Problem is I only have two magazines and can't really be inclined to buy more for what is probably going to be more a showy gun than something functional (fixed hop woes).

You chaps are going to be some easy targets.

Pyro Anyone that still wants in on the price of £1.50 please let me know. The only reason I ask is I'll be submitting the final request for a quote at the end of this week in anticipation of paying early February - would be nice to have a final figure so we can find out if we'll get any further discounts, but will be accepting anyone that wants in right up until I place the order around the 7th so there's no huge rush unless you feel like making my life slightly easier. Well if we do, I'll assemble my special Zeke M9 with the walnut grips that I've been putting off for ages because I can't be arsed. It's all yours...

Na. longer barrels do still get batter compression, so as a rule you will get greater FPS from a longer barrel, but there are many variables and the difference can be negligible. With AEGs it's also a little more interesting as changing the barrel means you may have to change the volume of cylinder so there's enough air to get the BB out of the barrel properly. If your fps is dropping, OP, then your best bet is looking outside of the barrel first: Disassemble the hop, clean it up, check the rubber for splits/ruptures and consider replacing it with something better. Reassemble with PTFE/Teflon tape and make sure the airseal is good. Check your gearbox and cylinder. With such a significant drop you could have a hairline crack in the cylinder itself (and you're losing compression) Also worth noting the PDI springs are made for TM guns. I know the L85s have proprietary shaped gearboxes, but whether or not this affects spring compatibility I don't know. Someone will probably answer that shortly.

It pains me to say it, but I think you're right. Anything over 50rps is absolutely ridiculous anyway - I think what's in the video is about 80 or something insane.

A tad of misinformation floating about with this one. Edit for actual content Firstly, these are both children - one is obviously a spoilt brat and has some HPA solenoid engine, but from the digging people did he's still in high school (15, actually). Other kid is young too, obviously. I say this only because of what I've put next and because of the assumptions people are making about his age because of his gear. Secondly, the 'burning of the patch' - people have extrapolated this as meaning that other kid burned the shooter's actual patch. In actuality there's another video floating about of him (the guy that got shot) leaving the team they were both on and burning his own patch as a result. The shooter guy also cited some other disputes they'd been having over a year (as well as the 'patch burning' that is) as being the reason for shooting him. All in all, it's dumb children sh*t that I've found to be telling of the UK airsoft scene on Facebook more than anything: People threatening to beat the living daylights out of this child or sending many, many abusive messages to him. The reactions have been less than impressive; instead of being level-headed players most people on social media have seen this as a frankly sad opportunity to form some sort of lynch mob and collectively give themselves some inflated sense of justice. He's now banned from that site, the owner has also got involved after the publicity and will most likely issue a lifetime ban from that site and have other locals do the same as a result. This was assault and because of the publicity will probably trickle through to the parents via the police if they get involved, but from where I'm sitting it is - like I've said - more telling of some of the other hardmen we have knocking about who are more than happy to jump on a bandwagon that be sensible proactive players and commentators. Part of the reason I come on here I guess, because you guys aren't out to prove anything like some of those pretentious knob-heads - you just enjoy shooting and fiddling with toy guns and gear like I do. Also, I hear this kind of thing isn't entirely unheard of at west coat sites. Lots of sites have banned HPA because of concerns over cheating, Joule creep and all the rest. You can already find three of four good fight videos where people forget they're playing with toy guns and have to turn it into something more. It's a reason why in the UK we need to be careful about using properly regulated CO2 (already banned in a lot of places because people buy cheap guns that shoot it far too hot) and that we keep ourselves in the know about Joule creep in particular. The number of people running HPA rigs right now who don't know how to properly measure the output of their gat is pretty low, but as HPA becomes more accessible and people get more lazy about properly crono'ing their stuff I can see videos like this adding to the stigma that already surrounds some of the high RoF stuff. A cautionary tale indeed.

Probably dirt where the chamber indicator is actually. Given the slide is plastic, that is

Second Airsoft Club - they're pretty good for that sort of stuff. Also Asia Airsoft at times.

You need to be ready to spend a decent amount of money to get that true infinite depth from the parallax free ones. Skimp and it'll ghost or - worse - it'll break altogether on your GBBR.

I had a G&P red dot like you, but my GBBR destroyed it; Daytona Guns will ruin them quickly unfortunately

Laterally I suppose, but that depends what the international standard for o-ring orientation is. Basically so it's not too wide that it's pushing the plastic far enough for the collar to not fit back on. It only needs to be offset from the objective by a tiny amount to stop the vibrations getting through.

Same as usual: Just unscrewed the front collar, added tiny strips of electricians tape around the outer edge to offset it from the objective lens (I should probably order a proper flat o-ring to do this more permanently) then put a piece of cut 2mm perspex infront of it before reattaching the collar.

I saw that a little time back on Facebook I think. Pretty damning review. Hopefully it's a quick fix like the issue with the Oshibooms detonating with the pin in (pin wasn't wide/strong enough so they made new ones that wouldn't get bent and held the firing pin further away from the primer). Sounds like it may be a more fundamental problem with the inertia-based detonation system that's basically identical on all impact grenades. How they could get it so wrong is interesting though when other companies have managed to do it fairly reliably I don't know. The TRMR X4 multi shot detonates reliably too but it'd be interesting to know if the two operate differently enough because of patents that one doesn't work at all or if it's just a case of tolerances.

G&P M2s cost the same as the UTG ITA, heh.

I've heard it's just a case of sanding a bit - the TM is 1mm wider, so remove .5mm from either side (both the hinged part and the static part).

That's the giggle mate. My point being Pelican cases are nice, and I'm sure they live up to their very high standard of protection but for airsoft they're absolute overkill - £2k worth of guns or not, you're looking at a £200 case. Buy a £100 clone and spend the other £100 on some custom foam inserts if you like.

Which airsoft site was that?

Are the Pelican cases worth the money over the clones?

Have you looked at the Crye GunClip? Works well with Glocks that have torches and with a little modification works ok with the TM dimensions too.