What Have You Learned About Airsoft Recently?

[SheriffHD]

Yep. I'll always advocate for doing basic maintenance, tune-ups and simple upgrades yourself. It allows you to notice when something is wrong with your gun and immediately have ideas on what's wrong and how to fix it.

Every game I go to I take poundland tool set (you know the stubby handle with like 30magnetic bits everything you need to take a rifle apart) and a long screw driver and hex keys it all fits in the front pouch of my gun bag and I'll bring spares too like old hop rubbers and nubs that ive replaced and kept as a back up as id rather be back in the game then have to call it quits. Understandable when you first start off you won thave much but it'll save you so much hastle and agro just by knowing that you can quickily resolve an issue should it arrise.

 

[Druid799]

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[SheriffHD]

PS you don’t use as screwdriver to tighten a stock tube .?

Alot of AEGs have the philips head screw that sits in the buffertube holding it to the gearbox. the castlenut helps to add extra tension.

 

[Druid799]

Alot of AEGs have the philips head screw that sits in the buffertube holding it to the gearbox. the castlenut helps to add extra tension.

Sorry my boneheaded error completely forgot about the gearbox screws as only buffers I've got now are TM recoils and gas ! ?‍

 

[SheriffHD]

Sorry my boneheaded error completely forgot about the gearbox screws as only buffers I've got now are TM recoils and gas ! ?‍

easy to look down on us Non TM peasants, I understand ?

 

[Druid799]

I would NEVER look down on you lowly pheasants !
I’m too short for that ! ?

 

[Rogerborg]

Good points, I've learned that it's always a good idea to bring at least one backup AEG and the box-o-bits.  I got a full day on Saturday via playing with backup #1, then cannibalising backup #2 to get DMR Prime sorted at lunch.

It was surprising (and a little disappointing) the number of folk who made of point of saying "Rather you than me, mate" or "I'd never risk working on my gun, mate", as though ignorance is a virtue. Come on, M4 hop units are one bolt then a circlip, you could train a monkey to work on them.  And not a monkey from the top of the tree either, one who's fallen out a few times and hit his head on every branch on the way down.

 

[Impulse]

Good points, I've learned that it's always a good idea to bring at least one backup AEG and the box-o-bits.  I got a full day on Saturday via playing with backup #1, then cannibalising backup #2 to get DMR Prime sorted at lunch.

It was surprising (and a little disappointing) the number of folk who made of point of saying "Rather you than me, mate" or "I'd never risk working on my gun, mate", as though ignorance is a virtue. Come on, M4 hop units are one bolt then a circlip, you could train a monkey to work on them.  And not a monkey from the top of the tree either, one who's fallen out a few times and hit his head on every branch on the way down.

My mp5k or spring shotty always comes with me as a backup gun, regardless of what else I'm bringing. Always a good idea to have a backup!

And you're totally right. Outside of gearbox related shenanigans, airsoft guns are really easy to work on. And even then, V2 gearboxes aren't that complicated once you open them up and have a look. I'll give someone a pass though if they don't want to crack open their V7 gearbox, as I've endured that pain myself and wouldn't wish it on anyone (unless it's a tech I'm paying to open it up for me, then I do wish it on them because that's what I'm paying them to do!)

 

[Cr0-Magnon]

It was surprising (and a little disappointing) the number of folk who made of point of saying "Rather you than me, mate" or "I'd never risk working on my gun, mate"

I'd change a hop bucking on site but I wouldn't open a gearbox....OK maybe if Luke was sat next to me.

 

[Adolf Hamster]

I'd change a hop bucking on site but I wouldn't open a gearbox....OK maybe if Luke was sat next to me.

oh for sure, too many springy things in a gearbox to get lost on site, better done at home with a clean&tidy floor.

i've always advocated knowing your own teching, so many advantages once you get past that hill at the start and can put stuff together properly.

 

[Skara]

i've always advocated knowing your own teching, so many advantages once you get past that hill at the start and can put stuff together properly.

if not full on teching, at least basic maintenance.

I get that people might not have the time nor the interest in what's inside their gats but I legit get asked every sunday to set someone's hop..

 

[EDcase]

I just take a spare AEG or two.

I don't want to do any teching on the benches where bits can easily fall and get lost.

 

[PopRocket123]

My dad opened a gearbox at a game once. Very quickly learnt his lesson. Some of the shims fell out and made their way between the gears. Didn't realize, put it all back together and *CRUNCH*

Now we just take enough backups to arm half of our team. 

 

[Adolf Hamster]

if not full on teching, at least basic maintenance.

I get that people might not have the time nor the interest in what's inside their gats but I legit get asked every sunday to set someone's hop..

oh hop setting is a big one, alongside barrel cleaning and realizing that even a good gun will shoot like shit if you feed it crap ammo.

 

[Rogerborg]

Sure, I wouldn't open a gearbox on site, but barrels and buckings and hops (oh my) are absolutely basic stuff.

I was just bemused at the number of folk who made a point of coming over not to offer help, but to declare proudly that they never touch their internals.  Kind of a weird flex.

I say "number", it was maybe six over half an hour.  But, you know, fishing and airsoft tales.  

 

[Skara]

declare proudly that they never touch their internals

Then they complain the guy at 70 metres ain't calling his hits

 

[Adolf Hamster]

Then they complain the guy at 70 metres ain't calling his hits

ahh yes, the old "but he can shoot me so obviously i must be able to hit him" paradox

 

[SheriffHD]

Then they complain the guy at 70 metres ain't calling his hits

I had a blast with that line at a game. dude shooting at me and just seeing them fall to the floor then yelling at me only for my reply to be launching a Tagginn back at him and hearing him yell "what the fuck was that"

 

[Impulse]

ahh yes, the old "but he can shoot me so obviously i must be able to hit him" paradox

As someone who uses a boltie, the number of times I hear this... It always amazes me when people are shocked that their stock AEG can't reach the same ranges as my painstakingly tuned boltie

 

[Druid799]

BUT again playing devils advocate on the whole the people on here generally have a couple of brain cells to rub together (note I do say only a couple ?) but a very large proportion of the population (as I’ve learned through my work) see even just opening a kitkat as a technical challenge , changing a lightbulb as advanced electrical engineering and don’t even THINK about changing a fuse in a plug ! that’s borderline quantum physics !?

So I’d say yea setting the hop that’s not up for discussion but anything that’ll involve even a modicum or disassembly I’d equally say yes a very large part of the public wouldn’t have a Scooby what to do .