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Unexpected gnu in bagging area...

This really was unexpected... I drive past Action Hobbies a couple of times a week, so keep up to date with their Clearance and Bone Yard specials... saw this yesterday, made an offer on it, and now it's mine...

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It's a dead JG S-552, normally retails ~£160, I got it for £50. 
Why buy a perfectly good gun and break it, when you can buy a broken one and break it some more!

I've not had a chance to take it apart, but it's a V3 gearbox (my 'speciality')  Thanks to all my recent tinkering I've got a spare motor and two (count 'em - thanks @Adolf Hamster) trigger units (which is what Paul at AH thought is the problem), so I think I've got a fair chance of fixing it.  If I can, I'll have a tidy little back up gun.

Picked up a decently large padded gun bag for a tenner too.

 
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RostokMcSpoons said:
Unexpected gnu in bagging area...

This really was unexpected... I drive past Action Hobbies a couple of times a week, so keep up to date with their Clearance and Bone Yard specials... saw this yesterday, made an offer on it, and now it's mine...

View attachment 85884

It's a dead JG S-552, normally retails ~£160, I got it for £50. 
Why buy a perfectly good gun and break it, when you can buy a broken one and break it some more!

I've not had a chance to take it apart, but it's a V3 gearbox (my 'speciality')  Thanks to all my recent tinkering I've got a spare motor and two (count 'em - thanks @Adolf Hamster) trigger units (which is what Paul at AH thought is the problem), so I think I've got a fair chance of fixing it.  If I can, I'll have a tidy little back up gun.

Picked up a decently large padded gun bag for a tenner too.
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That's an awesome find. Hope you get it working. It's many years since I've tinkered with a gearbox, but my first was a JG v3..... unfortunately I don't have 3 hands so it was a wretched experience.

 
MAX DICKER said:
That's an awesome find. Hope you get it working. It's many years since I've tinkered with a gearbox, but my first was a JG v3..... unfortunately I don't have 3 hands so it was a wretched experience.
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Cheers :)   I don't have 3 hands either, and my first attempt to put a gearbox back together (thanks to a particularly awkward trigger spring on the F2000) took 7 hours.  Now I can do it in 5 minutes thanks to the jig I built (now improved with extra bolts to hold an allen key in the spring guide, and a dowel rod to hold back the nozzle + tappet plate, as that was pushing the shims off the top of the sector gear)

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Just bought some genuine Crye pants. 

Not sure what hurts more, the speedsofter in me or my bank..

 
Asomodai said:
JG Sigs use Medium length motors rather then short or long types. 
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Thanks for the heads-up on that, hopefully the motor is ok!
I did pull it apart tonight.  The gearbox was jammed up.  I re-assembled and everything seemed fine, except for a wobbly motor wire to the trigger.  Like an idiot I wobbled it more (like a kid with a loose tooth) and the connection snapped.  So I've disassembled again, fitted a spare connector.  And then found the shimming was off.   A couple of shims found on my desk had pinged out without me noticing.  That's me for the night.  So tomorrow I've got some soldering to do, and a shim job, and then I'll see if it kicks into life.

I must admit now - I have no idea how all the bits for the fire selector switch fit back together.  I hope there's a decent video out there!

Oh, and that comment about me being able to put a V3 back together in 5 minutes?  Call that 'pride before a fall'.  For some reason this particular gearbox has had its own awkwardness that meant I spent more than a little time trying to get it back together.  Which is why that broken connector was pretty damned annoying.

The one definite forward step is I've rubbed down and re-painted the bright green bits with my Halfords green camo, should look nice with the dark grey receiver when it's all back together :)  

 
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RostokMcSpoons said:
Thanks for the heads-up on that, hopefully the motor is ok!
I did pull it apart tonight.  The gearbox was jammed up.  I re-assembled and everything seemed fine, except for a wobbly motor wire to the trigger.  Like an idiot I wobbled it more (like a kid with a loose tooth) and the connection snapped.  So I've disassembled again, fitted a spare connector.  And then found the shimming was off.   A couple of shims found on my desk had pinged out without me noticing.  That's me for the night.  So tomorrow I've got some soldering to do, and a shim job, and then I'll see if it kicks into life.

I must admit now - I have no idea how all the bits for the fire selector switch fit back together.  I hope there's a decent video out there!

Oh, and that comment about me being able to put a V3 back together in 5 minutes?  Call that 'pride before a fall'.  For some reason this particular gearbox has had its own awkwardness that meant I spent more than a little time trying to get it back together.  Which is why that broken connector was pretty damned annoying.

The one definite forward step is I've rubbed down and re-painted the bright green bits with my Halfords green camo, should look nice with the dark grey receiver when it's all back together :)  
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It's kind of endearing, like adopting a rescue puppy. You'll turn that poor broken two tone horror into a gleaming fully functional rif. Post pics when it's done. ?

 
MAX DICKER said:
It's kind of endearing, like adopting a rescue puppy. You'll turn that poor broken two tone horror into a gleaming fully functional rif. Post pics when it's done. ?
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Or he'll end up with an absolute horror that constantly shits itself whenever the Nine o'clock News comes on. Either way it'll be an adventure!

 
Just ordered a new makarov holster from russia. Also going to make myself a leather one. 

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2x TM M9A1 Hop wheel as I keep ruining them and the ML one isn't best fit. 

1x TM M9A1 Hop arm, I reckon the original one is causing the wheels to die. Too sharp. 

3x Lonex 520rd AK Flash mags. 

 
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