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Worth picking up some degreaser spray from Halfords too for getting rid of the earwax that most chinese manufacturers seem to use! This is from my JG G3:

You don't want it too thick though. Gear grease needs to have a high shear strength but low enough viscosity to provide a lubricating film. High speed applications like airsoft guns (and power tools and the like) have very different needs than high stress, low speed applications that need a thicker grease. It also needs to not be so low viscosity that it flings off. (good examples here: https://www.nyelubricants.com/gearbox-grease-guide)

Socom Gear M9A1 GBB pistol. It came with a nice Gemtech suppressor and looked good but it fit together like a dick in a shirt sleeve, had shocking gas efficiency and almost no discernible accuracy.

Plastic on metal (piston rails etc) or plastic on plastic (such as pistol slides or tappet plates) - silicone grease Metal on metal (gears) - LT2 grease Personally I use Abbey grease products and WD40 Specialist products for silicone oil, Lithium grease etc (which can all be bought from Halfords).

Mine only hurts when I'm going up stairs, getting up/sitting down that kind of stuff. Basically when the joint takes a lot of load. Years of mountain biking basically made the outer muscles in the thing develop more than the inner muscle so the kneecap gets pulled outwards by the tendons and it stops running in the little groove in your knee joint. Strengthening exercises for the inner thigh muscle pull it back in line and it stops hurting. The exercises suck balls but worth it.

F2F would be best, I had my review on the phone with whoever was on triage at the time so it was more "I want to come off the pills", "OK, here's how you do it" than actually discussing what's happening. Thing is, I need to prove to myself if the pains are down to the sertraline or not and the only way to do that is come off it. If it goes when I'm off it (or even at a lower dose) then I'll be happy. I can either stay off it and develop better coping strategies or ask to go on a different drug.

Well that's a bollocks excuse. Pretty much every game I play these days there's someone over 60 there! In fact, one of the guys I regularly plays with has just turned 60 and has a replacement hip. Gets about better than I do truth be told!

Not yet. I'm coming off it slowly - half doses every other day for a few weeks, then just half doses etc... Going cold turkey though...oof. You have my sympathy! I've been on it at 50mg dose for about 5 yeras. Earlier this year I complained about being constantly tired (one of the other side effects) and was told "well maybe you're more stressed and that's why you're tired. Let's put the does UP to 100mg" and that was when I started developing the pain in my fingers and hands. Don't get me wrong, I'm not exactly "low mileage" and I know full well that there are pains I've had for a while, but the feeling in my fingers that my joints are trying to separate and not being able to grip things properly is definitely new. Your mileage may well vary of course, don't come off them "just in case" if you don't have those side effects yourself!

I'm in the process of coming off of Sertraline because since going up to my current dosage I've been getting really painful joints. I've had a load of blood tests and stuff and the doctors are just "there's nothing there, it's probably arthritis...you are getting older Mr Brown" which to my mind is just getting me off their list for the day. Having done some reading and talked to lots of others on Sertraline it seems that it's not an uncommon side effect!

Does it hurt all the time or only when you put load through it? Might be worth talking to an osteopath. My doctor said I had arthritis but it was actually runners knee - where the muscles in the thigh develop out of whack and pull the knee cap offline.

So err....what happens when it rains?

Personal taste is funny old thing. That stock made a bit of sick come up for me. Much like the gopping Hera arms M4 thing.

Pretty decent. Which PC are you after?

https://bfy.tw/RYFX

https://www.proairsoft.com/airsoft/aeg-guns/gg/gg-cm16-predator-aeg-p-3768.html they ship to Croatia.

PLEASE don't fall into that trap of believing all the bollocks online that says "yeah TM recoils are great, once you change X, Y and Z". Leave it the fuck alone, it'll be fine. Plus, any excuse to repost this: As for contacts, they even do varifocals now! Weird as fuck to use but they do them! Plate carriers are sweaty as fuck so definitely check out belt kit but don't rule out chest rigs either. There's loads of them out there that have plenty of variety.

I don't like cricket...

Which engine did you go with?

Good point actually, it's been a minute since I bought a quad rail! There's some on there for about £8 but even the £20 ish ones don't have the clamp part.

I'm going to guess that he's keeping schtum because it was something really stupid.

Yeah...that's not entirely true. Cast alloy is not inherently better than a decent plastic (for reference, I have a metal bodied Specna and a plastic bodied G&G) in terms of strength or durability. Some G&G models do have plastic rails too which are gash but the GC16 Predator is an alloy body and rail so that really isn't an issue. Once you start to compare the quality of the Specna metal with the G&G metal then you're honestly just into different grades of average. None of the cast metal receivers on the market are all that great as long as you don't buy a REALLY cheap one. It's only once you start paying silly money and buying machined parts that it truly makes a difference and once you get to that point you just won't care what anyone else says because you won't hear them over the sound of your wallet crying.

Astigmatism or something? Cos there's lenses for that now. I guess as long as you're not looking to be a sniper no glasses is the way worth taking a look at the @heroshark stuff though. I seem to remember that he does some mesh goggles that will fit over glasses too.