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The hop unit is a pile of poo, although you can buy some rather expensive upgrades if you can find them in stock anywhere. The gearbox is typical A&K, so really needs to be stripped down and rebuilt to get a decent airseal (including a rather expensive replacement nozzle) and to replace the gears. Having said that, I have two of them and they are now completely reliable. Nothing internal is original in either of them. As for them still being licensed by Magpul as some sellers claim: 🤣

Alternatively, you can buy these wonderful things: https://www.thecageairsoft.co.uk/airtech-studios-gik-gearbox-installation-kit-aeg/

That was a balls up; the system failed, resulting in someone who should not have been able to obtain a firearm being able to. That is a very different situation from that in several US states where there are minimal checks or restrictions.

A video showing exactly what is happening would be somewhat helpful. From that brief sound snippet, it sounds like something is jammed; you will probably need to get the gearbox out and open it up to see what has happened.

Would that be "a bit odd" as in the lives of schoolchildren being a price worth paying for your right to own guns?

Combat troops or front-line troops would seem to be perfectly good descriptions without the connotations that some people, particularly in the USA, seem to attach to "warriors". I was not aware that this was polite society; if I have offended the gentleman, I am happy to provide him with my second's details. As for personal pronouns, we are "encouraged" to put them in our work email signatures; this does make sense as many of the people that we deal with on a day to day basis are from Asian cultures and are uncertain as to whether some European names are male or female. If that was the reason we were "encouraged" to use them, I would not mind too much; however, the stated reason was about ensuring that the very small minority of gender-fluid people in the organisation could be addressed by their chosen pronoun. My initial offering on my email signature of that git, that git, that git's was rapidly rejected; my second offering of that bloke, that bloke, that bloke's has not yet been challenged :).

Yeah, I get the movie reference; it was the Yank(?) waffling on about "warriors", which seems to be an American thing. I agree about the need for a more solid shoulder location when shooting high recoil weapons; a "high chicken wing" was also a more natural position for rifles before pistol grips were introduced.

It is indeed!

What is all this "warrior" stuff? As for the SLR and chicken wings, the first few seconds of this are quite interesting; this is certainly how I was taught to shoot the thing.

You seem to have missed the point somewhat.

They are most likely 18:1; you can check the ratio by counting the teeth on each one and working out the ratio that way.

That would explain it! That piece pushes the tappet plate back, allowing a BB to feed. It is indeed the sector gear, but you would probably be best advised to buy a whole new 16:1 gearset from someone like AK2M4 (allegedly, other purveyors of airsoft bits and pieces do exist), along with a delayer chip to ensure that the tappet plate stays back long enough. Whatever you do, you are going to have to do some shimming to ensure that the gears are spaced properly. There are some very good guides to this online.

There are lots of videos that will show you how to open and work on a gearbox; use this as a learning experience. That nozzle should be attached to a long piece of plastic inside the gearbox; this is called the tappet plate and its job is to move the nozzle backwards and forwards. Where are you based?

The nozzle should move, as it should be connected to the tappet plate. Where did you buy it? From a shop or from a private seller?

“I seam stupid…” Well, now that you mention it.

Utter bollocks! The guy's gun was within limits on the weight he was using; chronoing him on a heavier weight than he was using and them booting him off site is out of order.

Interesting; there is nothing on their website about chronoing with anything other than 0.20g BBs.

If your friend was using 0.25g and was under the limit with them, that should have been enough to meet the site's requirement. Testing on heavier BBs and failing him when they took the power over the limit is ridiculous and unfair. Please do state which site it was so that we can avoid it.

I am not sure if this is common across sites in general but, at the woodland ones where I play, there has been a significant reduction in the number of DMRs. I am not sure why this is but, on talking to a few players who have stopped using a DMR, a common factor seems to be that, given the limited lines of sight at woodland sites, there is little or no advantage to running a DMR against well tuned weapons running 0.30g+ BBs at 1.05J with, for example, a Maple Leaf Macaron rubber and Omega nub with no MED and full auto.

I had a hot and sweaty day at Tower Airsoft in Essex. This was one of the days run by Camo, who always put on a great day of airsoft with solid but relaxed marshalling and games that make good use of the site and its structures. I went on my own today as my second eldest is away having far too much fun in MTP, some of which involved an L129A1 and a GPMG. I am not at all jealous (honest!), but it was quite scary to think that my first shots with a GPMG were 40 years ago; where did the years go? However, the site had its usual quite large number of experienced and sensible players and I had a great day sneaking around the site turning up where I was not expected to be:). Unfortunately, the heat seemed to get to people and both numbers and energy levels dropped off a bit during the afternoon, which was not really surprising. However, the games were still good, just slower. Overall, another very good day at Tower; many thanks to the Airsoft Plantation and Camo guys, the players and the catering staff, who had a good supply of ice lollies.

Guts? All that you have done is to show anyone who reads this thread that you are an arsehole. You really do have a massively over-inflated view of your own capability. Dunn Kruger? You cannot even get that right. Ok, your left hand then;).

I hate being the one to have to tell you this, but your right hand is not a "hot woman".

So, now you are claiming to be a hard man; easy to do on t'interwebs.

You don't quite get how this forum software works, do you?