Adolf Hamster

is that a fill port i see in the magazine? is that a fill port i see in the magazine?

me local had those in for a while, apparently they sold really well. although to who i don't know, i've never seen one fielded.

the internals certainly, but the externals are more of a design choice thing. maybe it's once burned twice shy but if there was an e&l variant of a gun i wouldn't even consider lct. granted lct do make some stuff that e&l don't.

E&l every day of the week:

that is definately a new one. been stabbed plenty of times by springs and various pokey bits but never a piston......

how?

you can, but you run the risk of issues such as backlash or different teeth profiles. as long as you're checking for those it's all good. i've done mis-matched builds in the past this way.

agreed, any time i've run a variable it's been set to roughly 4x and left there. for up close just stack a red dot.

so £40 for an shs dsg, jg idler and a quite worn bevel that looks to be g&g or brand new £14.50 for the shs gear and taking your pick of any of the 18:1 shs sets (even the internal bearing ones) works out sub £35 assuming the nozzle is indeed shs those are £4 new as well...... all in you're able to do an equivalent setup (using standard gears not the fancy ones) brand new from ak2m4 for £34 including shipping. edit: on a side note i feel compelled to doubt the 55rps claim, assuming at that speed the piston survived long enough to register enough shots through a chrono i've not met a magazine, even the mighty cyma micap, that can feed beyond 50 reliably.

if the one's i've seen are anything to go by you don't even need to run- it won't fire anyway

good to know, recently have a thing dispatched via ems and was wondering if the increased border attention would spill over to russian stuff.

jesus 650 big ones and it's not even ruined upgraded?

tried it with just the gears in the shell spinning by hand? also worth checking backlash, even a completely matched set of gears can sound bad if the box has them spaced slightly too far apart. other thing worth checking is the idler in particular can commonly not be flat, so whilst it might spin freely for part of its cycle it could bind at a single point.

in fairness, the geometry of a hop rubber, especially the fancier designs like ml, is not a trivial thing to make.

excuse me while i generously apply communism to your our meme in future.....

he means that because you were getting proper readings when working on your m4 that the chrono was setup for fps. needless to say we all got fooled with that one...... tbh for a pistol you can deal with anything 0.5j and over.

ahh so my secret propaganda campaign is working then....... tbh i've owned more makarovs than i've seen in the wild, and i've owned 3..... the WE version is a nice little gat, and i have a thing about small handguns. i wonder if the rarity is due to 007 fanboys picking them up thinking they're ppk's oh aye, you say that now..... yeah, it's a big higher than i'm used to seeing from pistols, but hovering around the 1j mark is pretty respectable for a handgun.

Yeah, good to have. I have about 4 makarov loading nozzles, and thats not including the ones in the gun..... In my defence i figured better grab em while they were around.

haha, was not expecting that one, no wonder nothing helped..... at least the work isn't wasted, a learning experience is always good. guess that means the original nozzle maybe was good after all so now you've got spares.

npas is mostly for gbbr's to get them dialed down to a specific limit, not really much call for using them in pistols as with a few exceptions they tend to be far enough below our power limits. sadly that's the gbb life, part of the reason it's a standard reccommendation not to jump straight into airsoft with a gbbr. i'm struggling to think what else to look at. we've cleared the hop, nozzle, bbu and mag router, i'm assuming you didn't find anything of note in the trigger mech that was worn/jamming. did you mention what gas you were using? if you're using a lower powered gas try higher powered, but also the reverse if you're already using a higher powered gas. a higher pressure gas can drop fps by making the valve on the magazine too hard to open for the hammer setup (essentially light striking). there's also the hammer spring, did you try the bb under the mainspring? only other thing i can think is when you're chrono'ing is the hop turned on? the bb needs a little resistance to help it build up backpressure before it starts moving.

Float valve=the little plastic valve on a spring that's inside the nozzle, sometimes also called a rocket valve It directs gas forwards down the barrel then closes, sealing the cylinder so it can cycle. this could be the cause of low fps, if the spring is weak/damaged/been cut, or the valve is sticking and not resetting then the valve will close too easily, cutting off gas supply early. eg if you've ever heard of an "npas" kit for a gbbr this is basically an adjustable float valve. there are aftermarket versions- high flow/low flow valves and springs of various strengths, but very easy to totally fuck up a gun by changing them if you don't know what you're doing so my general philosophy is leave it stock. depending on the manufacturer this should have come as part of the nozzle assembly- you'd know if you changed it as it'll be the gubbins that goes inside the nozzle. if the new nozzle came with a new float valve then we can probably rule out that being the cause of the issue.