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Great job @AK47frizzle love the look of the grip

@Fatboy40 haha, you should be fine with the sp100, I get around 360fps with 0.2g (sorry I don't know the J). As an interesting experiment the start length is 170mm, let me know what the length is after a couple of 1000 BB's

I'm no expert but have a small bit of experience with spring making companies as I have my own (Gearparts) springs made. Yes stock springs on the whole will lose power over time. They're generally made from cheaper non-tempered wire, sometimes call "piano wire". This wire is readily available and cheap. My own springs are made from oil-tempered Japanese SWOC-V steel and less susceptible to shrinking overtime. The M110 I've been testing for the past 18 month 300,000 cycles is still the same length as day 1. I've never performed a stress test on Guarder but imagine they are pretty much up there.

An SHS AK head, got a few of those, which one did you need out of interest? I've noticed that since the larger Chinese stores like Aliexpress have implemented VAT at source all of my other purchases from independent HK retailers have sailed through customs with no charges.. It's almost as if no vat and duty checks are being made simply because they are catching the majority at source. Maybe we'll start seeing the rise of HK stores again similar to mid-2000's. Who knows, still early days.

Such a little tease ? Did the new ZCI barrel fix the problem?

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

there really is no set size for lips, or pretty much anything. I'm testing a couple of new gearbox shells right now and I'm swopping out parts like you wouldn't believe trying to get the best fit - it's just the nature of the beast and something you need to accept when tinkering.

Damn, didn't know Paypal now do this, if they start rolling this out on low transactions where items are sent via non tracking services, could cause all sorts of price hikes.

@Super64 can you clarify a little, have you sent off the rif or literally the guy just paid and you're waiting to post?

Sounds like a charge-back to me

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

@Rogerborg I've felt absolutely amazing on a low carb diet. I've tried full on Keto, sub 20g and it's super hard, but the sweet spot for me is low carb, around 50g a day. My 25 year battle with irritable bowl pretty much gone and my energy and concentration greatly improved. Not for everyone of course.

Battery is in the PEQ? Was there any particular reason for not running a stick battery on top? The print quality looks decent enough, what kind of options are there in the 3D printing world to get better quality? I've seen some of the resin 3D printers and the quality is very good but heard the plastic isn't as strong? @Samurai I think I would prefer a version without the stock, maybe worth doing version with and version without.

Amazing work

@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.

"check with your customs, it's your job to contact them - you left the EU!!!!!!!!!!!" Did that actually say that word for word? If so it's pretty bad. What info did the tracking number give? Who was the courier?

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.

@RebelScum Does indeed seem to be a UPS thing. I got my EMS, FedEx and DHL parcels in usual time. What frustrates me is the lack of transparency and communication. They don't even offer a webchat function. They make you wait on hold for 45 minutes. Service has fallen through the floor yet their prices have risen. They don't even offer any service guarantee anymore and haven't done for nearly a year.

Did you pay your charges yet? I normally pay VAT and duties etc direct to the driver on delivery however looks like they they've switched to paying before delivery now. However their whole payment process isn't geared up. Even their way of informing you of payments isn't that clear. My packages came from China though so slightly different. Got a vague message on the tracker to say charges need to be paid, but no link to pay or instructions. So called UPS support and was told "ohhh ignore that, just pay the driver" . So I wait for another week, no movement on the tracker. Called support again, got Steve from Delhi ? on the worst quality line. He said I had to pay now, so paid over the phone as this was the only way to pay, arrived next day even though tracker said parcel still in China. Seems they are overwhelmed, but still taking on packages.

I know it's a bit of a kick in the nuts but £15 for a courier is still a pretty good price for Poland to UK. As for the rest it does all depend on what is on the CN22 label. The fees they originally quoted you didn't make much sense so maybe they are holding it to re-asses. Just a waiting game at the moment, I've a couple hundred motors stuck with UPS god knows where for 2 weeks now.