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@colinjallen shipping cost clearly gone through the roof, £51 sounded high but I just checked my DSV / UPS account and for a 4kg package pickup from Wroclaw Poland to UK came out to £70. However do the reverse, UK to Poland via Parcel2Go and UPS standard is £27 (£50 insurance).

ideally you'll need to open up the gearbox to check the components, do a full inspection etc. if you're not ready to open it up then you can check the hop rubber (bucking).

22.22222222222222% ain't bad indeed if that includes UK VAT, duty and handling charge as I believe Polish VAT is 23%

if you're flush with cash then sure treat yourself to something new, but in general there's isn't a gearbox issue which can't be fixed with new parts and time etc. Your problem could be a number of things, slipping gears? ARL perhaps. Best thing you can do is make a little video of it firing and another one with a look inside at all the bits

as skara said it's got the molded nub on the arm now so not hugely beneficial for flat contact-patch buckings. last few days I've been testing my new nubs and bucking with lots of different combinations of gearbox shells, chambers, nozzles - it really is a nightmare of a minefield. If you do a lot of builds then it's really worth keeping a few different brands to hand.

Welcome buddy, you'll find lots of friendly players, have fun

Not yet been but a few of my local customers / friends have, they really like it. doing some good stuff

@Rogerborg I was going to say that the ZCI 70 is pretty well molded using silicon, the one in the picture looks more like it's made from more of a epdm rubber

that is super strange, never seen that before. I just checked a few of the ones I still have here and they all have the nub and ridge in place. It's possible that you do have a molded mutant on your hands there

show us your piston, don't be shy

From my own personal experience I don't get too hung up on bore sizing, especially with lower price cheaper barrels. If you took a bore measuring tool you'd probably find it was nowhere near the specified size lol.... As for maintenance I'd take out and clean after every game (that's just me though).

Definitely the best priced / performance inner barrel out there. Super dirty inside though

I'm hoping ZCI deliver 1st week in November, just waiting to hear back from them. What size is the inner barrel you're after?

Think you've got your springs mixed up buddy, never said that about the Guarder springs. Gearparts springs is where I've done the 200,000 cycle test. Guarder don't even bother to oil their springs from the factory the cheap-skates ?

Resin is nice from what I've seen, heard it is a lot more brittle though?

you mean valid defense...

Thanks for the kind feedback, it's much appreciated.

Lunberg!!! I f**king love that movie, not seen it for years, need to go watch

A Chinese supplier of mine was asking me about the GBLS a couple of years ago, what I thought etc. Guess they were looking at producing something "similar" but never heard anything else about it. Thanks for the write up @mightyjebus

@Alimcd oh no lol ...springs do go through some real abuse. ZCI does seem to be one of the better after-market springs. The new Gearparts springs so far doing well. Japanese military grade steel seems to do the job.

I was surprised they got the go-ahead for this. Friend of mine used to work there as a prison guard, 400 players does sound quite a lot, difficult to judge though. Only 5 mins from me.

@shadowfacex good start indeed, have you thought about creating an account system where a site owner would register and then they can add, and then edit their site details, price, opening etc. Saves you from having to edit the info yourself.

I run a plastic gun in the morning and then just go home ? I'm even lazier

Man that suck, some of the EU orders I've been sending out have arrived in perfect time. Ireland, NL etc. No delays at all. This is with Royal Mail as well. No RIF's of course. Some Polish guy on FB got his TG order in 3 days using a private courier - might be worth looking at in future

Although slightly different to couriers like DHL, UPS etc, EMS have the right idea, they just suspend the service when it becomes too difficult to meet time scales. It's not a perfect solution, they sometimes aren't the best company but I get the feeling greed takes over at UPS.