JamesAirsofterAgent

I've had things take three months to arrive from The US. As @sonofsammo says, sometimes it'll go round and round the depots there before getting anywhere near an international flight. Also bear in mind, even upon arrival it could easily be stuck in customs for a month before they even calculate how much duty and handling to charge you.

I'm waiting on a package sent from HK around the same date via HK post office, no info after 30th December.  Maybe a lot of parcels coming into the country around that time have just been stock-piled.  I know Royal Mail does this to my packages sometimes.  When the load is high it's like they get pushed to one side and then dealt with only when load decreases.

@ak2m4I thought that but then at the same time I've ordered two things from Aliexpress and both have turned up in just over a week. Strange times atm

Yeah for sure there are quite a few things that could potentially go wrong with reassembly.

- ensure the hop rubber (the sleeve) is fitted correctly, with the protruding line seated in the long groove in the barrel and the protruding nub on the opposite side seated inside the little window in the barrel.

- It is possible to push the barrel with the rubber installed both too far into the hop unit thereby smushing up the feed lips and distorting them or equally not pushing the barrel and feed lips in far enough, either scenario will almost certainly run you into feeding problems. 

(sometimes with a very tight setup a small amount of silicon oil can help - just don't get it any where near the hop window)

- ensure the plastic barrel clip is engaged properly, with the two recesses fitting correctly into the grooves on the barrel - some times these can go on and you'll think its in place, but in fact the two recesses are just resting on the edge of the groove - this can cause the barrel itself to move, thereby moving the cut out window away from the hop up arm rendering the mechanism useless.

- custom hop nubs (especially flat nubs) can be too wide for your existing hop window and will require an equal amount of light sanding on each side until it comfortably fits into the window - the test is to press the nub down and see if it springs back up under the elastic force of the rubber without getting lodged. 

This could cause you an inability to push the nub down or it could cause the nub to become stuck, so that when you raise the hop arm the nub remains in its position in the hop window.

- Also do check the condition of all the hop mechanism dials and arms, It's not that common but some times these little pieces can become a bit minced.

Defintley, take the barrel and hop out, dissemble, then  reassemble checking at every stage.. to be safe, do clean the rubber on the inside of the window. You can see if the mechanism is working in its most basic form by looking down the barrel and adjusting the wheel while observing the nub lowering and rising.

Hope this helps dude!

Sounds like an issue I had when I hadn't reinstalled the nub correctly.

@Cr0-Magnonoh yeah, that's another one - make sure the nub is engaged properly with the hop unit arm, if it doesn't lodge into the arm it may be displaced to the front or rear of the arm most likely resulting in a zero hop scenario. 

Some people like to super glue the nub onto the arm, which is fine for a standard nub, though not necessarily for a flat nub otherwise you may get a sloped hop surface - the tiniest blob of silicon gel can help keep it in place for installation. 

It's the forums way of telling you that you don't need any more kit 👍

Impossible, you can never have too much

Kjw co2 mags are crap ime break in 2min, expensive to keep replacing parts and even then sometimes unfixable. I wouldn't bother. 

Yeah, I've sent an email asking to withdraw from the agreement, send back and receive a refund. Not having much luck with this m9 as tg still haven't come back about whether I'm getting a refund on an order they can't complete

I'll probably just get the extra mag from Fire Support when I order the actual pistol from there. 

Ive just recieved this email from the store: 

"

Echo'ing the above. TaiwanGun is great for "cheap" stuff but if Firesupport are showing it and the price gap isn't huge you're far better off buying from them. The aftersales support is brilliant and you're putting back in to a well established UK airsoft business.

Fire Support > TG. /thread

This shouldn't even be a question, they should have refunded you in full immediately.  I'd get that money back where it belongs, in your pocket.

Ah right thanks will email asap

Ah right yeah, found this one for mega cheao https://www.taiwangun.com/en/co2-i-lubricants/silicone-oil-60ml-w-applicator-tip-leda?from=related&campaign-id=6

Where abouts should I put the silicone oil in the m9? Different videos say contradictory things.

However, the 'piece' you may not have ordered, is the actual plate carrier

Ah right, because that photo was on the product description page I thought the centre piece was something that folded up from behind the mags and I was just unable to find it.

Thanks both.

It’s not particularly well worded on the advert..

No problem, hope the rig works out well

So do I, it'll be an improvement on the one I used for ages made out of my school lanyard, belt, cardboard and a ton of duct tape.

Taiwangun is in poland btw :)))) So no customs

Should be closer to (or less than) 8, assuming that they send it out quickly.  They have a huge turnover of stock and can get a little tardy when they're rammed.

Ah right thanks for the response.

https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/cyma-steel-magazine-for-ar-15-m4-series-300rd-hi-cap?pv=7496

Probably go for these, will post about how they are.

Unless your gun is very ‘picky’ about mags then any M16/M4/STANAG listed mag should fit and function fine in it .

Advise I’d give if you need to ask ‘does this mag work in gun XYZ ?” Is come at it from the other direction with “what mags if any has anyone had problems with in gun XYZ ?”👍

Thanks, thats a much better way of doing it.

I would assume so, the raiders I have seen all seem to have this style of magazine in them, even the rentals at my local field.

Should be good, although Workmate Eddie bought a variety of mags to see which one(s) worked best with his Raider, and some of them needed a kiss with a file to get them seating properly, either along the spine or inside the release catch window.

The Raiders can be picky (well the CM16 are) with what mags work. I went with the lonex flash mags after researching on here and not had any feeding problems with them. Worth a quick search on the forum

Take a tracer and/or a torch! Make sure you have good eye pro and face mask, when i went they went for the heads mainly. It is agreat site! 

not necessarily, odds are it would likely have been blasted out the barrel in bits.

i wouldn't advise running those bb's any more if they can't take the pressure of a mag spring then god knows what they're doing when they hit the target.

I believe it was SPARTAN BIO bb's I have left over from a site I went to where you have to use only their bbs. I've used all of them up now and I probably only be back there once or twice more before I sell my kit on. Right now I'm using NUPROL .20s from Bristol Airsoft (they only sold the tracer varient) however once these are used up I will look at getting some ASG Blasters or Devils (I can't remember the full name) but probably the latter due to a recent thread about exploding on mesh. 

Thanks for the reassuring words, I thought my airsoft days were over there and then, however it has made me realise that I should probabl invest in a spare something or other as right now I only have 1 of each thing. (1 rifle, 1 mag 1 battery etc)

Yep welcome to airsoft where one of everything is not enough and neither is tow or three for that matter(just kidding) defo get some more mags and a back up battery though,if your watching the pennies and haven't got any camo look at helikon trousers very hard wearing pretty cheap and on the leg pockets the insides have elastic loops in them that you can use as mag pouches(rifle not pistol)👍 oh have a look on BZtactical I get mys BBs from there been using Tippman .25 .28 .30 good price and zero issues🖖