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To be honest I'm impressed the motor is meshing properly at that angle!

Nice! Although that pistol grip is making my brain itch.

Playing a bit fast and loose with the use of the word "budget" there, aren't you? They average anywhere between £65-£80 a pop! Great motors and I've used a few myself but I wouldn't call them a budget option.

I presume you mean the "Boost" range, rather than the "Ultimate CNC" range? Although personally, I wouldn't call the Boost motors an upgrade.

Kinda defeats the point.

If you pump air from one tube into a wider tube, the pressure will drop when it enters the larger chamber. Simple physics. By adding wadding the pressure waves will be diffused far better than adding rubber or foam though. Something similar to acoustic wadding or felt would work well, closed cell foam or rubber doesn't actually give the pressure wave far to go. Because of the differences in the way airsoft works compared to real firearms you need to stop thinking about how something like a real suppressor works and more like how you dampen a speaker enclosure or an exhaust muffler. More to the point, as mentioned above - if we're talking about a can on an AEG, what comes out the front is way less of a consideration than what comes from the gearbox and piston assembly.

Not tough enough, it would wear away.

Bad luck.

You misunderstand me. I used to use 1,1,1, Trichloroethane to clean stuff in an ultrasonic bath when I was an apprentice. Before a) it was banned or b) airsoft was invented. Also - you really shouldn't used Trich in an ultrasonic cleaner, it's flashpoint is really quite low!

Same here! We used to use it in an ultrasonic cleaning bath. 😟

To be fair it will be the two contacts that are currently wired. Regardless of what switch it is.

Be interesting to see what they do with it, F&O used to run The Mall in Reading before Zed Adventures took it over. Suffice to say that the consensus was that it improved vastly after F&O left the scene. Still, any new site is always welcome!

It's not so much the length of the motor that's a problem, more that the space between the bearing point and the back of the motor shell is less on a brushless motor. If the motor was shorter but still the same sort of profile then you'll get the same problem.

1,1,1-Trichloroethane or GTFO!

Second pic down on Page 9 of the manual, red and black to the motor, the two wire thin black stuff goes to the two sides of the trigger switch. Job jobbed. Make sure you get the right two terminals on the switch though. Otherwise you'll be pulling the trigger to STOP it firing!

Hey - no kink shaming here, thank you very much!

You're right, there is a limited number of OEMs but much like the screen analogy used earlier, the difference lies in what goes around the basic guts of the motor. Be that the quality of the bearings/magnets/copper or the firmware in the ESC there will be a difference based on the market cost of the items. Do I think that Warhead motors are overpriced? A bit. But they were the first to market with a well made product and responsiveness to customer feedback. They went down well with the early adopter crowd and what we are seeing here is the upshot of the market reacting to that. The OEMs knocking out cheaper versions of the same basic components just with varying levels of sophistication added on by the "brand".

The blokes in Medway. Explains a lot.

NO! XT brushless am bestest brushless!

Ah right, gotcha. Most AEGs have a screwed on baseplate:

I mean the ones you took out to get the bottom of the pistol grip off, to be able to remove the motor.

To me, it looks like a baseplate screw from the pistol grip. Every chance it got in there in the factory.

Jammy bastard!

So if the screw comes from the gearbox, how would it have got into his handgrip if he's never taken the motor out before?