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That looks like a glock. What make is it? Depending on manufacturer you can get replacement spring sets.

Cheers most of my tracers are Acetech so was hoping to stick with them.

Has anyone got any experience with tracerers with built in chronos? Are they accurate and which brand would you recommend. I do have a sneaking suspicion they are all made by the same manufacturer though.

Can you give us a picture of inside the slide? Being plastic I would also assume something to do with nozzle. Also is the rubber in the top of the mag intact?

Pretty much. AEGs and GBB are generally much more mechanically complicated than their real steel original (giving many more points of failure) and in their country of manufacture are dirty cheap and made of low strength materials. Partly because they are cheap and partly to make sure they can not be made to be actually lethal other than beating someone to death with one. In the end we play with toy guns who's original design was only intended for plinking and not for the abuse they suffer just being used in game. It would be fantastic if we could expect the same reliability standards as real steel but economies of scale means we would pay a fortune for our guns. We just have to accept that sooner or later our toy guns will break.

£20.00 they can be had for £30/40 new

that is the law yes in theory. but everyone here is speaking from experience the retailer if they are good will fix it, but most likely that will cause them to loose money and they aren't big enough to make demands on the manufacture to get their money back. So is most likely going to say this was broken by user error so warranty is invalid and then it's up to you to prove other wise and trading standards don't have the resources or the knowledge to do anything about one RIF.

Some of those RC were released as Tamiya. I wonder who OEM'd for whom? but sooo 80s why oh why can't they produce GBBs of some of those?

Unless the gun is dead out the box warranties are pretty much worhless as trying to prove it wasn't user error is well difficult. Next question have you modified it in anyway as that would invalidate any warranty even its just changing the connectors. It would be nice if airsoft guns were universally reliable and long lasting but even the high end guns are just cheap toys for what they are expected to actually do.

I had my hopes. I expected a kit but the size of the G11 I was hoping for internal tank HPA.

Nothing special by today's standards its just the fact it's an SA58 and came out when classic army had good build quality. Always want the folding stock version but last time I saw one for sale new it was £400ish before importing costs so sod that.

They do like the AAP-01 they have done a few kits for it. I do like the fact the fake mag cycles

Bodge it and fit a mk23 with an extended inner barrel that will make it a DMR.

Looks like Showgun is bring out a G11 kit for the AAP-01 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=5451469544883209&id=100000606538129&m_entstream_source=feed_mobile

PPS do a gas kar98 don't know if it'd any good probably a g&g clone(there is a g&g in the sales forum at the moment) There is a vsr based KAR made by snow wolf you also have the double bell Springfield 1903.

orange tip has no legal standing in the UK. for a RIF to consider an IF it needs to be painted at least 51% a specified colour. there are other legal methods to importing but they all require being a member of UK based organisations. unless you want to paint your guns your best bet is to come over rent from a site get your UKARA and then import your guns.

should be interchangeable with classic army collapsing stocks

you really want to go to an airgun forum for this.

Have you tried with another brand of mags and different BBs. Make sure it's not them before cutting anything up.

You should look to see what a rusted out late 60s Chrysler B body car are selling for. Some people are basically paying minimum 3k for a vin plate you maybe will have a couple hundred worth of useable parts everything else needs to be replaced practically building a car from scratch.

Former civil servant I am well aware what HMRC can do if the mood takes it.

If you are just going to be target shooting you may want to look at air pistols rather than Airsoft. There are lots of air pistols which are basically the same as the Airsoft version just in 4.5mm rather than 6mm.

Its more if they get shitty and send the police around between me and my flat mate we have an arsenal and can't prove where most of it came from as in pre vcra purchases.

Just got a phone call from UPS asking to fill in firearms declaration. We shall see what happens now. My UKARA is in date and was plastered on the out side of the box.

All we can do is pray nobody ever does something incredibly stupid and there is finally a test case as I think we will all be screwed. To Add calibre is clutching at straws there are multiple pistols that are made in several different calibres that you would need to know what you are looking at to tell if it's 45, 40, 10mm 9mm .22 and that's just 1911s