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@concretesnail they arrived yesterday bud 🙂 let me know when you've ordered and I'll pop one in for you

As soon as I clicked on this thread this song came up on my playlist

Stock could be a problem going forward. Really depends on how the larger wholesalers want to play it, i.e. take risk that the end customer will buy more expensive stock or sit back and wait a while - see what happens in the market. We might see factories like CYMA and Double Eagle start dealing in smaller numbers, selling direct in order to get their products to market. There's also been rumours of the Chinese President Xi Jinping was under house arrest in a coup 2 days ago, still no news and none of my regular Chinese suppliers will talk about it.

Wouldn't a soldering gun work better? One of those hot air blasters, just got one myself but not had a chance to try it out.

As @Rogerborg states, UKARA is owned and run by UK retailers. I can't see any reason why the scheme would aid anyone importing into the UK

that's what some people call a 4/5 cylinder or 70%, ideally for 240mm you should go with a 3/4 cylinder

Sucks it got caught but it happens. Who was the courier? From my own experience having the UKARA number displayed does f**k all since they seem to be doing random selection checks where the item is sent away to their testing/holding depot. I had a whole box of chrono's take 4 month stuck in customs where they said there were no instructions for these electrical items since they were being resold. When they finally arrived after 20 or so emails back and forth sure enough the instructions were in the box.

Mini slide switch or micro toggle switch. You'll need to know how many pins it is, my guess is 4-pin. I've got some on their way to me, not for the g&g but for another etu but they look similar in size. You're welcome to one of them when they arrive.

Such a shame, HK was the go to place. So many bargains, so many online stores and as someone said $2 to £1 - it's now $1.09 to £1 and shipping has pretty much doubled. There's some gloomy times ahead for the airsoft industry, most new stock coming into the country is going to be hit hard. Lot of panicking Chinese suppliers have been messaging me in the past couple of weeks, almost desperate to make sales but yet unable to reduce their prices. Pegging their own currency to the USD maybe great in some circumstances but now it's causing it's own issue. Dang it.

how much did all that cost?

Wouldn't let me open the video. Most likely a compatibility issue with the Gate gearbox and hop chamber / Nuprol receiver. Can be a sod of an issue. Adding onto what @Fatboy40 said 1. What's the length of the inner barrel? 2. What's the cylinder type?

Yep, you still can I believe. There's a post on one of the FB groups right now where one guy showed the price differences. Interesting stuff indeed. Seemed going through PB added around £70 to the TG price that we used to get pre-Brexit.

@Fatboy40 not much to see really. I spoke to DE couple of years ago when they first came out with their new range, you had to purchase a 20ft container load. So spending around £40,000 plus the shipping and importation fees

It's probably an old price before the value of the £ dropped like a sack of spuds against the $. 1.38 last year, now 1.15 (ouch). In the catalog there's only $3 different between the C and D 🙂

@Cr0-Magnon When Luke did the work did he configure it as a DMR originally? For standard builds he does a lot short-stroking. I don't know much about those G2 gearboxes. @Lozart From memory I think it's the other way round, the zci hop window is around 1.5mm longer for the MR patch, but it's never really caused me an issue on testing, however every single brand will react differently.

Out of interest what type of cylinder does it come with, you mentioned the stock inner barrel is 463mm so I'm assuming closed?

Yes, last week. Kinda makes sense now.

From what little I know about GDPR apparently it's acceptable to share data / information without consent if there's a lawful basis. Since you're accessing this information to check the buyers eligibility under UK law I would have thought this constitutes a "lawful basis" but I'm no "para legal". However if he's already given you his UKARA he could also grant you permission / consent for the retailer to check this information. That's my take on it.

Ahhh right, yeah it's if one of those then it'll be bang on. My M110 has done 500,000 and still at M110. Could be one of many things buddy, air nozzle is a good place to start, also make sure no clogged vents on the piston head etc. What's the inner barrel length and the cylinder type?

I can't remember the last time I worked on a CM16 before so I can't be specific but in general a M110 should be getting you around 360fps with 0.2g. It could also be the brand of spring. If it's a cheaper one or older might have lost it's power in which case nothing to worry about. Running a M110 won't cause too much issue though, it's just something to be aware of.

What fps are you getting with the M110? Technically that should put you over the limit. Worth looking into.

@Enid_Puceflange that did a pretty decent job, how much is that particular engraver?

they look like banana connectors? better pics would be useful

I really don't know that much about NGRS but I guess it's certainly possible. Part of the issue these are made in China by a Chinese company, they don't have access to TM NGRS guns to experiment because they are banned. Getting them into the country is incredibly hard for them. They can't even get run of the mill products sent from Taiwan let alone Airsoft bits. These Chinese fets have only come about due to the authorities relaxing the laws around Gel Blasters, however I hear that's about to change. Ideally you'd need to design the product here in the UK, working with a Chinese factory to get them made. Is there a big enough market to warrant the cost? Dunno. Monday I'm sending out a few units so hopefully we'll have some real-world data. I'll post up the results here for anyone not on FB.