Sitting Duck

Firestorm fet £10 with thermal fuse delivered Baby mofo fet if you don't wanna make your own 99.9% fet's blow from bad fitting The decent ones I mean Cheap snides fail no matter who fits them

What is underneath basic fet ??? And F U C K ME them 2 neg wires are close hence tab Middle n right legs jeez lots of shrink on them Curious as to the underneath bit thingy Coz looks thick something or a flat TVS diode?? Soz for commenting, my soldering ain't perfect I use chunky TVS coz in stubby stocks I got plenty room Stock tube might be different

You got a link to this "double tap" MOSFET ??? Tbh it looks like a normal 3034 one without a TVS diode Which many use even though a 3034 has some basic protection. By the way you should use the tab for negative motor wire Keeps voltage well away from 2 outside wires plus the tabe handles much more current Think it's Rusty's guide or something I based my stuff on But same meat different gravy £2 to £2.50 per fet cost if you buy say 10 or more Just make sure you get GENUINE ones The snides from fleabay just melt

Ahhhhh - now see then it will drop to nearly 200fps on Sunday as it is a day of rest no it won't, slight deviation on chrono to chrono but they should be bang on near enough I found at my home/site over time the spring can lose tension - btw when you finish firing - remove mag & fire two shots on semi to clear gun this is to prevent your pooping out your 50" plasma TV or somebody's eye always have to do this when exiting the combat zone - all mags out & guns cleared when entering safe zone Dead zone is NOT safe zone - safe zone is where peeps don't have to wear eye pro so all guns MUST be safe flip side of firing 2 shots on semi apart from ensuring gun is cleared.... gun should come to rest with spring not compressed or only slightly starting to compress store gun half cocked and spring will lose tension very quickly also empty mags or at very least release the any bb's under tension in high caps you guessed it - mag spring loses tension and over time mag won't feed well or feed very few bb's before loads of winding needed

think they allow an absolute limit of up to 340fps but though I went it was only for a recent show the quick games I was looking forward to playing didn't start by late morning and thought wtf I'm off hiome yup we got a few spares, always handy and lent the a team mate one when in past when they got no juice left it is horrible only playing 3/4 of a day in the beginning, especially near the end when everybody goes nutz at end of day often full on TDM infinate respawn or Terminator or crazy games get played then or some fool who went skirmishing near their birthday is being lit up yeah bit of a bummer sitting out near the end coz ya got no mojo left in ya gun

I started out with a bit cheaper guns - plinky guns or just a tiny bit better that broke after a trigger happy full day skirmish or two tried to repair but often they ain't designed to be repaired just bin/replaced (my noobish tech skills were dire then but at least I broke stuff that was already semi-boned) Learnt a bit from them nightmares and really appreciated better quality guns later on ICS & G&G pi$$ all over cheap SRC's and other cheap makes from JBBG note SRC's were Gen 1 - Gen 3 are better I'm told, well couldn't be much worse Yes I broke my G&G CM18 - first AR latch failed (weird never had that happen since to any gun) then fixed snapping pickup tooth off - not once but twice off piston This is why you do AoE and a good reason not to just chuck in a neo motor and 11.1v Wow this is great - BANG, bollox no it ain't Since then I have got a little better - at breaking stuff but I have learnt to not take the pi$$ so much on stock guns out of box with a bit of work inside Seriously advise people to just get some use out their guns and only look to mess with it when the GUN needs it - not the OWNER I admit to most of my screw ups loads of time so people fully understand the risks of messing about or pushing any gun too much too quickly. Gladly share my success stories and numerous failures I've done (still doing plenty of them) I can blow up stuff as I have the odd - ahem "spare" but others with one or their first aeg should tread carefully Just get it - use it & enjoy it, many think they are gonna do this n that & build dsg etc... - over rated imho A good player can kick ar$e with almost any gun, good performing guns help but it is the good players not the good guns that win the games To me it don't matter $hit I just go to blow up guns and have fun

Anybody who looks down on 2-toner's must also have a low opinion on renters too to me it is all about the fun factor - £ for £ I bet a 14yr old with a £125 Z1 raider is having more fun than a snobby middle aged player with expensive toys getting the hump being shot by kids Actually that sounds like me a bit but I really accept I get ar$e handed to me without new players starting somewhere it can get very stale and even risk of site not continuing due to regulars giving up I pay little attention to people's guns - it is the person not the gun I like or dislike - forget what toy they are holding Fine clothes do not make the gentleman - as my late father used to say (we are/were both scruffy sods but besides that fairly decent blokes)

If it ain't broke don't try to fix it is best advice with lots of guns.... For starters you need to see how any gun compares and G&G are very often ready go out of box Most G&G's are 330fps they are fine for any site Their value for money, the moment you pick it up after holding other plastic starter guns - it feels much better Inside is good tried n tested internals - yes they are the Fords of airsoft but inside is a good Ford Pinto engine I don't think they use 6.04's - likely their higher end Top-Tech guns use a 6.04 maybe but not the CM range I think most new owners should just get out there, use it and get to know their new CM ain't gonna hit 80, 90 100m but most likely 45 - 60m which is still good just make sure you pull the trigger when target is in range as many blame the gun instead of the owner not knowing his gun's abilities Hop is good - I'd say better than most plastic hops in starter guns Green bucking is regarded as very good for a starter gun as well Owners should be using these for many months without any thought of needing to upgrade anything Any upgrades can improve but also even high quality upgrades can be fitted poorly and performance can be worse No aeg will beat the accuracy of a sniper - well TM vs JBBG sniper but you get the idea it is a toy electric gun that pew pew pee pew plasic balls out the end but is a very good starter pee pwew Perfectly fine as is imho - to break them as good as I do takes skill - or rather lack of it

Almost any decent M4 mag will do n feed ok in a G&G when finished shooting it is wise to empty mag or at very least release the tension from wound spring on mag before storing this is to prevent mag losing spring tension being stored fully wound resulting in weak spring - basically you will find you will have to wind it more n more as she will fire only say half a dozen shots before dry firing and need more winding etc etc...... before you ask - dunno how many shots per winding - it varies maybe 20 or 30 but to be honest I have never bothered counting - if its very little I know its a crap mag/spring

I dunno - there isn't much in it, it is all down to who has stock/price inc shipping and how quick you need stuff as always there is a "slight" risk of paying duty from Hong Kong if stopped but 2 small boxes arrived ok without charge when I wrongly ordered from HK instead of EU you have numerous locations/options - click open in new tab if you like to explore all options end of the day won't make much difference what you get as long as it fits/works it is a lot cheaper than buying batteries from Airsoft shops like Zero One etc.... £20 for a 2200mah nimah old skool crane battery + £16 or more on old skool smart charger £36 or £56 if 2 batteries bought !!!!! yeah right - fffffforget that but loads n loads add to cart and a cheapo raider @ £123 jumps to £200+ very easily

0.20's and 0.25's for slight better range on most guns should of grabbed a bag of BAW's @ Airsoftworld - they are pretty decent I found other than that buy small qty's if trying out different brands - local site's bb's are usually ok (otherwise players would be saying - Oi these are crap bb's)

show me any that you find - often you need a 10v to 18v psu with correct plug at end to power many lipo chargers - most of them are like this some like a ParkZone one are designed to run off car cigarette lighter socket but no bigger you could wire up a 12v psu and have it for use at home/car many do allow a variable voltage of between 10 to 18v as the modules internal voltage regulator allows for this but all of them may differ so I ain't saying jack $hit a few models run on 240v like the B3 types - but as with all chargers especially really cheap ones beware of unsafe copies/clones you can buy a cheapo £3 one from china and use an old adsl/cable modem psu at 12v I got one like that plus a B3 240v but I kinda understand stuff a bit more - no offense to you or any others out there so it might be best to get a proper charger off the self rather than a Blue Peter diy thrown together bodge up one like mine

not really unless they do cheap lipo chargers in EU store UK don't and the really cheap chargers come from Hong Kong / International warehouse take a look by all means but you have to do seperate orders for UK or EU or USA or International etc..... failing that check ebay but make sure you are really buying from a UK seller loads of china sellers appear to be in UK but are not - cheecky sods

The GC16 is NOT a crane stock and is FRONT wired in handguard Both the 30th GC16 & G26 and the Carbine's are FRONT wired Rest of CM range are rear wired - I'm 99.999% sure of that except for confirm any other new/older models most rear wired ones have the crane rear stock for the twin stick/nunchuck batteries in the crane stock (has 2 thin tubes at back) twin stick or nunchuck or crane style batteries - call them what you like but the twin stick batteries are designed for crane stocks but can be used up front or anywhere they will fit you can shove these in a jumbo full size fixed stock and a couple of mars bars as well I guess batteries go anywhere they will fit - and then there are external batteries mounted on rail in a PEQ box but don't worry about that.... The GC16 is front wired in a slightly longer hanguard - you have some room from bottom of handguard to outer barrel this is aprox 18mm max height or thickness of a block battery width wise it is about 35mm might be 36 at a push length of battery could be up to 170mm but due to ridges or parts of barrel meeting this full depth of 18mm will only be maintained for say 150mm so you have a space of 150 x 35 x 18 - this figure I would go for slightly under if possible 16 or 17mm as lipo's may slightly puff a tiny bit in use and most of all just to be on safe side of things most 2200mah block batteries are gonna be 110 to 125mm long and most will be 32 to 36 - do not go over 35mm width it is the thickness you need to pay close attention to 16 to 17mm - max 18mm - 20mm+ - no chance closing up handguard.... due to many block batteries being used for mainly RC stuff - many won't come with small tamiya connectors but xt60 there is an adapter which works well - some adapters from Hong Kong came with incorrect polarity no biggy to unpick & reverse pins/polarity - hopefully a reputable UK seller will have the adapter 101% correct (long story short it gets confusing coz large tamiya's BLACK = round socket are wired different to small tamiya RED is round socket) Anyway - due to the pi$$balling about with just one adapter in gun needed but hopefully correct polarity and measuring/checking double checking all dimensions BEFORE you order etc.... The twin stick batteries from HobbyKing Europe at a fiver will go in there no problem, not as big capacity but no messing - small tamiya, goes in there really easy with loads of room - heck you might even get two sets in there coz when I tried it they went around outer barrel at say 9 & 3 o'clock so you could put in another set and have a combined 2600mah 7.4v or 1300mah 14.8v NOT A GOOD IDEA TO WIRE IN 14.8v in a stock gun - well any gun really coz most on here stay in single volt digits seriously just put one set in there coz if you wire it up in series/parrallel - you will get 14.8v on series - BANG and besides 2 x 7.4v 1300mah do work but is better to have one bigger capacity if possible or just run them one at a time Soz for Open University bollox - there is the option/space - but don't bother imho Hopefully you got this now - either block option if you measure/adapter or the long twin sticks at a fiver each the warning was to others as being these sticks are about 166mm long they are way too long to fit other rear wired crane stock guns (work fine in AK47's top cover/battery, still crap for mp5k's as they are smidge too wide - poxy mp5k's) So anybody else thinking I'll get them for my Raider - ergh the arse will be hanging out of rear crane stock so don't anybody start bitching to me if these don't fit All of us need to take care and double check any battery will fit - I'm sure I got my measurements right on the GC16 but all the same I ain't getting sued if stuff don't quite fit 101% as first thought If I don't win this months Golden Ladle Award then I wanna know why coz I will be considering legal advice

nearly all places will require you to play at one site for ukara (tbh I can only see them allowing this if and it is still an if - if they had more than one site under their names) makes it easier and more importantly your ukara entry on database is linked to you local regular site half days do actually count - suppose you could book pay go out then go home done that once or twice when my gun broke I went home home with the right hump stomping off about my toy broke Waaaaaahhhhhhhhhh - its not fair wwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

are you 18 and ukara'd ??? don't care if not coz the ICS was ahem "gifted" by other bloke just if you are then Taiwangun or if not and have to 2-tone there are UK places

One of my ICS-42W's blew a fuse just like that (Tommy Cooper) and Lord Metile had to have his motor replaced I think but he still got an ICS MP5 later on the fuse is a crap blade type and I think the wire is still quite thin and I stand by stock ICS's are a bit faster than stock G&G M4's so who knows if the motor is drawing too much current - if it has thinner wire for more TPA it could be getting worn the windings if really really thin wire used - have heard windings blow like fuse but that was usually being pushed to hell atm the gun ain't running right, the guy has offered to sort it which is better than usual "sold as seen m8" see if he can fix it properly - he might have generally thought it was sorted but alas maybe not I've been there myself - well still going there sometimes just as you think you have got it sweet then the ar$e falls out elsewhere or something...... if still no joy I'd just gut the thing and start over myself - but then I'm no expert and probably fix one thing and balls something else up

remember if you don't wanna pi$$ball about with adapters you can get this: http://www.hobbyking.co.uk/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=44687 now that is still dirt cheap and does go in my gc16 30th - tested it but UK warehouse don't do airsoft batteries for some reason ??? so make sure you click on european warehouse and wait 5 minutes...... eventually a little box may pop up and offer them at a small discount 5 to 10% max - it varies on each battery buying from Europe/Netherlands will be faster - by end of week rather than 2 or 3 weeks from International Hong Kong shipping might be a little more than buying from UK but cheaper than Hong Kong and waiting.... also there seems to be no real limits on postage tariff rate - I filled a basket with 4kg's of stuff and was same price it seemed as just buying a couple of bits from Europe ??? (i didn't purchase a ton of batteries but was being f*cking nosey) anyway - you got some options to think about anybody else thinking of buying those cheap nunchuck batteries..... THEY ARE TOO LONG TO FIT INTO CRANE STOCKS !!!! but they do fit in longer gc16 handguards up front

if you get zippy compact or others like that a lot come with xt60 connectors for use in RC cars n boats.... hence the adapter for xt60 to small tamiya on airsoft guns - most including G&G will come with small tamiya (some other guns might come with large tamiya or higher end guns deans but 98% will be the small tamiya) if you buy AIRSOFT nunchuck or stick batteries they will already have small tamiya connector on there but often cost a bit more (mention airsoft battery in a shop and they will bump up prices) best places are RC shops to buy batteries from - most will have a small selection of AIRSOFT batteries but like I said depending on the gun's battery space you can use the RC block batteries also with bigger capacity etc.... Normally we cut off the connectors - ONE AT A TIME or you short by cutting both together - you WILL get a f*cking shock trust me BUT it ain't worth messing about soldering/fitting new connectors unless you really want to just use an adapter - only need one to leave in gun and maybe get 1 or 2 block batteries with xt60 connectors the zippy compacts are good ones - got some myself - turnigy, vapex plus others are all decent makes just you need to pay attention to connectors or get adapters or resolder/crimp new ones on if you want to get best value for money you can just buy proper airsoft batteries with small tamiya already on there as well - just that the GC16 can use the block type ones within the sizes I told you about - be careful you don't get one too big and can't fit it in - done that before oops (crane stock guns can't and need the correct nunchuck or twin stick batteries in them like Raiders & CM18 etc...)

It is my primary address tbh.... so it seems it had a history or ongoing problem - could be wiring or maybe faulty motor/fet or something else causing fuse to blow Well at least the guy & tech bloke will know what they have done/tried/not tried so far rather than any of us keep stabbing in the dark etc.... we could try new motor/fet/connectors etc... run a meter over wiring but most likely if no joy it may need opening to replace any possible short wiring but we ain't got it in front of us and if the previous guy sorts it out then alls well that ends well lucky - lots of horror stories of people palming off problematic guns onto others fingers crossed and keep us informed

you don't need a mosfet for a stock gun on 7.4v higher voltage 11.1v yes or when you upgrade the motor/electrics etc... yes but for stock gun - nope charger - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Absima-LC-1-Lipo-Charger-UK-Version-4000031UK-/261912415786?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3cfb324e2a battery - listed some options and gave you dimensions 18 x 35 x up to 160mm block types - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ZIPPY-Compact-2200Mah-2s-7-4v-25c-35c-Lipo-Pack-UK-Seller-Fast-Dispatch-/131212457347?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item1e8cdf3583 HOWEVER a lot of block/brick type of lipo's do not come with small tamiya connector so you need one of these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MALE-XT60-TO-FEMALE-MINI-TAMIYA-LIPO-BATTERY-CHARGER-ADAPTER-FOR-RC-CAR-BOAT-/251538674995?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3a90df9533 it don't matter to most of us if we are resoldering new deans or T plug connectors on there in upgraded guns but as the GC16 30th is front wired a moderate but higher cheaper capacity battery can be used carbines, GC16 & G26 are wired up front rest of G&G's are rewired and many use crane stock - 2 x small thin stick type batteries yes you can buy/use the crane/nunchuck/stick battery in the GC16 but you can also use the better bang for buck block/brick type batteries if gun's battery compartment allows (which it does on GC16 30th) up to you what you buy - but posting this stuff on zero one won't get you many open choice replies As Zero One being a retail shop don't like people posting links to other stores/sites that Z1 sell in store Hence this place is more open and can speak/link to other sites's offers etc.... Hobbyking is good but to really save money you need to buy 2 or more batteries - then you get lipo's very very cheap (especially block type ones)

he thinks he may have a fet in there already but maybe if it is an active braking one then perhaps swap it out for a firestorm or f-storm fet not an active breaking fet AND it has (they say) thermal cut out protection so fit that £10 cheapy micro baby fet and bypass/remove fuse google firestorm mosfet or airsoft mosfet thingy soz but Duck support line is down for the moment - I'm off out for a beer - jeeeeez

what I was saying you may be able to get block batteries in the GC16 http://www.hobbyking.co.uk/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=8933 these are out of stock atm but you get the idea - a couple of those batteries should fit also reckon battery dimensions could be 33 x 18 x 160mm but for sake of easy fitting drop a few mm to say 30 x 15 x 155mm block type battery dunno what connectors are on them in the above link I normally fit deans on there but just pointing out you won't get that cheapy battery in a crane stock I normally run with rear wired fixed stocks and shove ANY battery up to nearly 5000mah in there - get my lunch in them big stocks though I usually stick with a short stubby fixed stock on most guns - just easy cheap batteries up to you - have a think but don't rush out just yet until you have thought it through like most hobbies it can get expensive especially at start - but once done it costs little just a few thousand bb's - under a fiver and charge ya battery you should consider renting and trying it out first though before you jump in it is fun but you should look into it a bit before just buying and commiting to it all straight away

Either will do, I think most on here may opt for GC16 as the 30th edition is metal for one reason (not the normal GC16 - the 30th special editions were made with the metal receivers normally found on £200 G&G's) Raider is still excellent gun to get going with ok - where the f*ck has my Sunday gone ??? http://www.hobbyking.co.uk/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=44687 right that battery above will NOT fit in Raider as it is too long at 166mm but it does fit in the front handguard of the GC16 fine - which I was surprised as is my usual AK47 battery Raider battery like most crane stocks will take up to say 127mm or 5 inch stick lengths and deffo won't take block/brick batteries coz the 2 x tubes have a max diameter of APROX 22mm so you need a square stick probably about 18mm x 18mm square peg in a round hole so to speak I don't know what other ones will fit atm but understand I ain't gonna go through loads n loads but I will try to assist a bit depending on what you decide to buy a cheap B3 lipo charger can be bought on ebay for about a tenner but buy from a reputable UK only seller dodgy clone chargers etc..... - you can pay £30+ for stfu chargers but SAFE £10 ones will suffice to get you going