Airsoft-Ed
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- Nov 7, 2010
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I don't think the pads would cause the prong to seal any sooner, I doubt they'd even be the right size to perfectly cover the cylinder head, they're literally just there for a cushion effect, they could be O-rings and have the same effect.
I don't think any heat generated would be that much of an issue. The worst I can see happening is the heat potentially baking the sorbo to make it really hard, with the effect being the piston would stop hard, as it would without the sorbo, except by the thickness of the sorbo, sooner. If the sorbo didn't bake hard in the heat, then I think it'd work really well.
But I personally think AEGs sound better when they're loud, the piston and cylinder head slapping together, combined with the excess air escaping the barrel make a really satisfying "thump" sound and of course loudness is more true of reality, the gearbox whines are also hidden better.
Though, in real life the target would die in most cases before they heard the crack of the rifle, so by making an AEG super quiet, you could argue that was just as true to real life, just for opposing reasons.
That said, I'll take g'box longevity and reliability over the noise it makes any day, because when you're in the heat of it, all that matters is getting rounds on target and any thoughts you have about disliking the noise just go right out of the window. It's the same theory I used to assure myself it wasn't a big issue going for plastic STANAG mids before I started using Emags lol.
I don't think any heat generated would be that much of an issue. The worst I can see happening is the heat potentially baking the sorbo to make it really hard, with the effect being the piston would stop hard, as it would without the sorbo, except by the thickness of the sorbo, sooner. If the sorbo didn't bake hard in the heat, then I think it'd work really well.
But I personally think AEGs sound better when they're loud, the piston and cylinder head slapping together, combined with the excess air escaping the barrel make a really satisfying "thump" sound and of course loudness is more true of reality, the gearbox whines are also hidden better.
Though, in real life the target would die in most cases before they heard the crack of the rifle, so by making an AEG super quiet, you could argue that was just as true to real life, just for opposing reasons.
That said, I'll take g'box longevity and reliability over the noise it makes any day, because when you're in the heat of it, all that matters is getting rounds on target and any thoughts you have about disliking the noise just go right out of the window. It's the same theory I used to assure myself it wasn't a big issue going for plastic STANAG mids before I started using Emags lol.
