AirSniper

Modifying something makes that item fall under the firearms act. You make it more powerful by increasing the joules power to go over the maximum legal limits, you're committing a firearms offence. The 2 years, can't remember if it was policing and crime act, VCRA, firearms act, public safety as some elements of the sport fall under HSE's guidance, controls and the laws at their disposal. Its why you have to have a minimum level of PPE to play. There is a whole raft of legislation that players do not seem aware of that controls the game or their actions in the following consequences for ignoring those legislative rules for public and personal safety. I have suggested a legitimate fix to get around the issue, all I am doing is highlighting things that could potentially bit you for failing to do the simpler and better route of replacing the tone parts on the RIF because a "REPAIR" is not technically a modification if the parts are damaged as I understand, replacement tone parts is hard to come across, I have only seen one site and that is in the USA. (no I don't have a bookmark for it)

You either have "NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE" or you have "PRIOR KNOWLEDGE" of something. There is no in between, I did have to learn the hard way in court about arguing to win and found that law is a quagmire of apparent grey areas that really are not, you can't apply your interpretation of the law as you see fit because the law, is very carefully written in a way to be precise, to the matter of fact, outlining the boundaries of what is or is not legal and so on. Law only deals in facts that can be proven or demonstrated... There is plenty of case law that demonstrates the process of two parties, often an individual against an organisation, much like myself on all those cases I was in court with, having to cross examine people on their statements, etc. The devil is in the detail and if you can stand there and argue no prior knowledge, good luck to you as I doubt that you'd convince CPS or the Judge. Had I taken up the offer to go in to Magistrates training and this argument was brought before me, I know what ruling I would be making, mainly because it is prior knowledge. WHY do people want to play with fire? Why not just buy the mono tone (black.grey/tan or polka dot) that fits the RIF and then play safe and have done with it. Its gifted, the OP's old enough to legally own one, just swap out the parts to remove any doubt or possibility that you can be picked up, just astounds me that people will rather argue that someone is OK to do something when clearly there is a law at play here and the easiest option is to "PERFORM A REPAIR" by swapping out all that is two tone on it, have done with it as then the law would need to prove wrong doing before they could take action. Is that a better option or would you rather play a game of chance with the law. I know I would rather have my liberty than bricked up for up to 2 years.

Up until you do something stupid and it then becomes a firearms offence... That can be as simple as a 1.3 Joule rifle having a larger power spring in it that pushes it over the 1.3 Joule maximum for semi and full auto, it is then classed as a firearm. Anyway, yes, toys is one way of describing them, I prefer to use SPORTS EQUIPMENT as that is essentially what airsoft is, an activity and interactive team sport, so your "Guns" are "Sporting Equipment" and a necessary piece of equipment for the sport. You know, "Sports equipment" sounds much nicer than "GUN". I consider a gun to be any air rifle of 11.9ft lbs or higher and powder rounds, literally anything that can achieve 16 or more Joules is in my book, a gun (rifle) I am pretty sure if you took your rif to a gun range and called it a gun, you would be laughed at and ridiculed and possibly kicked out. I know as one airgun club went ice cold on me for merely mentioning airsoft. for some reason in the shooting communities, airsoft is looked down upon because of the ease at which hardware is gotten hold of that idiots commit a crime with one and the shooting community suffer because of tighter controls. So understandable. So anyway... REMEMBER FOLKS... they are not RIF's or Guns or Rifles but "SPORTING EQUIPMENT" and that should get around the paypal issue in some countries. BTW, anyone with a heron problem... light em up with your rif, deter them from eating your entire fish stocks, they have been known to make off with kittens and puppies, plenty of videos on what they will attack and eat, so I have no love for Herons, aka egrits, nasty buggers, so the most humane way of moving them on is to left them have a taste of airsoft.

Then they need to kook up their rights in the USA.

If you live in the same house as someone, then you have prior knowledge, so if you try to claim otherwise and its been established that the item in question was present at a time the accused is in possession, trying to go for a "Didn't know" defence is not going to get you very far and courts look dimly on that as it is if you check. No, I am not CPS but I have had to represent myself in court 5 times already and won 4 and drew 1. Half my family are in the law business or doctors or professors in things like physics, geological sciences and lots of tech industries, so my head gets filled up with lots of information because if I am to hold conversation with family members, I have to talk to them in their language. I have also been around the block more than several times and rebuilt my life three times, I am a Taurus, like the colour blue and my bread is buttered right side up and like shooting, breathing and eating... In the one I drew on, the defence managed to confuse the judge that much that I had no hope of unravelling their twisted method of screwing up the facts. The judge had enough and just threw it out, so it was a draw with a "you're both square" but worked out in the end because I got 4 times the compensation payout.

The law does not distinguish what happened in the past or present, the fact is that its a two tone gun that should have those two tone parts replaced with non-tone parts. People assuming that because something happened in the past, is exempt, is just not true... In this case, the fact that the receiver of the gift is in the same household would also negate any claims of no prior knowledge that it was previously a two tone.

If this is in the UK then respraying the RIF from a two tone counts as a modification and its an offence in itself. You do not need to go through UKARA to get a RIF, if you read up, the item can be GIFTED to you. This is the loop hole that allows jerks to get hold of RIFs and then terrorise people with them, like the idiot pulled over and had a pistol in his glove box, a known criminal with a history of gun offences. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/38/section/36 Sub clause (c) he sells a realistic imitation firearm; or As well as https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/38/section/37 which covers the main points of RIF's

Yes, great idea to have some. I do advise you look in your local tool shop as I found out after buying one from China for £15.95 that the local tool shop sold exactly the same thing for £9.99, so instead of waiting 3 weeks for it, I could have picked one up locally instantly...

Its what spares are for. Sale of Goods Act KEY INFORMATION Your second-hand shopping rights Second-hand goods bought from online retailers are covered by the Consumer Contracts Regulations. If you buy second-hand goods from a retailer, you're also covered by the Consumer Rights Act. Buyer beware if you’re buying from a private seller - they don't have to draw attention to defects. Take note of the LAST BULLET POINT.... The same applies to buying at AUCTIONS and other forms of sites that you use bidding to purchase an item. The onus is on you to ask the right questions and also see the goods before you buy as then you have some comeback.

Gravity, there is big debate on what it actually is even now in the scientific world. Something as big as the moon does effect the earth, the earth has a barrycenter much like the sun has from the gravitational effects of Jupiter. On the earth this translates to the tides that we see. Again my point that ballistics works no matter where you try it. In space, there is no resistance to an object that has energy imparted on it. So something travelling at 5 km/s is going to do a lot of damage or pass right through something. I am not getting my science wrong, there is nothing wrong with it, the issue is that people are picking fault where non exists and over complicating things based on what alternate examples I can provide so that finally the penny drops. As for the science, people's eyes generally glaze over, not my problem if people can't see the relationship. Tell me, how many feet per second would a projectile be travelling on exit of the muzzle if you only input 1 Joule of energy and your mass was 0.00002g ? would be the same as a fleck of paint and travel at nearly 22,000mph like here https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3587882/What-happens-tiny-fleck-paint-hits-space-station-Tim-Peake-reveals-crack-ISS-window-debris-collides-craft.html which was suggested to me when I searched fleck of paint mass to try and ball park some figures for this. And Einstein, as brilliant he was, some of his theories are now being challenged at the time and now as our understanding of the universe expands. As for my ballistics input, I am using the very same equations that are used in airsoft as in airgun as in live round as in launching a big eff off rocket in to space... If you think that rockets has nothing to do with ballistics, that s the same as denying that rocket grenade launchers AKA RPG's don't exist. Try adding something useful like a source of information for me to consider rather than an opinion. https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/physics/kinetic.php?given_data=velocity&KE=1&KE_units=joule&m=0.00002&m_units=gram&v_units=foot+per+second&sf=0&given_data_last=velocity&action=solve 1 Joule of energy tiny mass... How many fps?

The law states... Police and Crime Act 2017 (5)After section 57 insert— “57AException for airsoft guns (1)An “airsoft gun” is not to be regarded as a firearm for the purposes of this Act. (2)An “airsoft gun” is a barrelled weapon of any description which— (a)is designed to discharge only a small plastic missile (whether or not it is also capable of discharging any other kind of missile), and (b)is not capable of discharging a missile (of any kind) with kinetic energy at the muzzle of the weapon that exceeds the permitted level. (3)“Small plastic missile” means a missile that— (a)is made wholly or partly from plastics, (b)is spherical, and (c)does not exceed 8 millimetres in diameter. (4)The permitted kinetic energy level is— (a)in the case of a weapon which is capable of discharging two or more missiles successively without repeated pressure on the trigger, 1.3 joules; (b)in any other case, 2.5 joules.”

Yes, that should be good enough. Temperature controlled irons are much better as you can bering the melt temperature up to the point that you are heating the solder, wetting the joints and then creating a solid joint. Unregulated solder irons can cook off the flux too fast as part of the process of flux is to be heated to errode and clean the dirt and allow the solder joint to wet properly. I used to use an unregulated iron and it was the source of many a dry joint or improper wetting, they are fine for large parts that are going to sink a lot of heat and where joints are not PCB based or on thin wires.

Also good to get is a set of thermal sinks for small parts that carry heat, you can get stainless and aluminium, they are like tweezers... with that, a set of insulated tweezers to help when soldering and one of these soldering iron tip cleaners is invaluable... Dip your tip in the rosin and then the cleaner and a nice clean tip....

Bloke goes in to a pub. Orders a beer and sits quietly drinking it. After a while he starts feeling peckish and notices the bar snacks and food menu. So he goes up to the bar, asks for a menu off the bar maid who hands him a menu. After reading the menu, Cheese rolls £1, Ham Rolls £1.50, Cheese and ham roll £2, sausage rolls £1 and hand shandy's £5... So the guy calls the bar maid over and he asks her, "Are you the person that give out the hand shandy's" and she replied "Why yes, I am" fluttering her eyes at the guy... He replies "Good... Wash your hands I want a cheese roll..."

Point again that Ballistics works in space... Shows that even in LEO that the pull of gravity can affect an object unless it is travleing with enough energy to carry it in to space. Again, some of these "Projectiles" are the size and weight of flecks of paint. In space a fleck of paint travelling at the speeds of a bullet in space carries enough momentum that if it hits something, can crack that thing, chip it or in some cases, pass straight through the hull of the ISS. Again, I draw attention to the fact that ballistics works any where and the denial by some that the same calculations for airsoft are the very same calculations used in daily science for calculating KE, even in air gun and live round shooting, archery and so on. It seems to be a lost fact on people.

Lead free solder is a big problem, mainly because it produces poor joints and what is refereed to as dry joints. Here are some fluxes I use. Kalifornia - cleaning the tip of the iron. Made from real ROSIN... Pasta do Lutowania - which is a paste in a tin that is made out of the Kalifornia stuff WODA Lutownicza - for very difficult metals like the ali wires that chinesuim sellers palm the west off with... Topnik TK83 - great for any wire and PCB, the one I use most of. AG Kwas Lutowniczy - a silver based flux or flux for silver, I use this on difficult metals that WODA Lutownicza or Topnik TK83 doesn't work with. IN ALL CASES NOTE THAT THESE FLUXES REQUIRE SPECIAL HANDLING as they are all toxic and are corrosive and a couple are going to pose a serious respiratory problem as in lung damage, so you need to be in a well ventilated space with a fan blowing the fumes outdoors or under a soldering hood or a face mask with open ventillation. ALSO WEARING GLOVES as they are corrosive besides pretty toxic. Suggest that you also buy LEAD SOLDER, it is still available but be careful as many chinese sellers hook people with LEAD SOLDER when its actually the lead free stuff. What you need is the Sn60Pb40 mix for a good all rounder. Solder iron... what do you use? If its your common or garden variety type like you see in home depot or B&Q or similar, then you should buy yourself a temperature controlled one, I got one on eBay for £12 and goes up to 450 degrees Celsius. Many irons do not have great thermal dynamics and can be too hot and you risk cooking the board layers or a component or even unintentionally introducing too much heat and some SMD's may have "Floated" from their posts and now produce a short or bad signal. Temperature control is as important as soldering technique. Good luck sorting it out...

Russians go do something stupid Excellent example of a high velocity impact by a tiny projectile in a vacuum travelling at speeds I understand are 20 times the speed of a bullet... Fast Forward to 9:15.

My son is an overweight player. Fact that he is the size of an adult but still not 16 yet, should give you an idea or in sizes, takes an adult size XL or in inches, around a 48 inch waste. So not your average teen player, couple that with the fact that he is very self conscious of his size, in the game site he uses, there are other large players in the game. Go at your pace, its not a race to win but to take part and have fun. When I was at NAF21 this year, there were plenty of people there that were overweight, mostly dads with their sons. I play and I am not the fittest or slimmest of players either, so don't fret about anything, I bring in a defensive role, watching for rear end attacks. Only advice I will give you is to make sure you have sturdy boots that are the military type boots, I twisted my ankle a couple of weeks back and glad I was wearing them as I could have easily broke my ankle. I will suggest ONE item that no one ever is advised to get with any Eyepros... Anti-fog spray or wipes.

SO... a 0.2g BB is a 3.08 grain BB and a 0.4g BB is a 6.17 grain BB Assuming that there is a fixed 0.8 Joule limit on the power of the RIF in this example, you will get the following results for the muzzle velocity. From that you can calculate the range over time and the known act of gravity and air resistance and so on, get an accurate range and flight path. On this Airgun site, the data about the RIF that a comment in a thread was referring to, this again, shows that the very same ballistics calculators work for airsoft as they will for live round shooters. I have shown that to go faster you need a lighter BB, this speed affect the flight time because its is also a measure of distance over time, per second, so if you have a BB with a 4 second flight time before it drops out, its chrono was 200 fps, then you know its travelled 800 feet. or 243 meters. If you could throw a stone through a chrono and time it, you would be able to work out the amount of KE you put in to that projectile. So I don't see why people are finding it hard to believe that the same math for ballistics applies no matter the scale or where you are.

Magnus effect has little to do with this. I am stating facts that THERMODYNAMICS and PHYSICS as rule here and the very same method that is used to chrono your airsoft RIF is the same method used in archery, airguns and real steel. I have provided enough examples of this reality but please live in denial all you like. Magnus effect or not, all bullets have spin even airgun pellets. So by that measure, you can negate that as a factor as it is common and just for simplicity sake. Axial or Pitch have the same effect on helping the projectile stay on target, what IT WON'T STOP is GRAVITY pulling on it OVER TIME which equals RANGE. As for the feather hammer experiment, yes that is true but a bullet has a hot gas that is providing that thrust

I'm just waiting for the day that sites have to use Joules and not fps, you are going to hear a hell of a lot of arguments and "Buts its only xyz FPS" with the response "Sorry mate, you can't use it on site as its too hot..."

But thats where all balllistics calculations start, the MUZZLE VELOCITY... You have to know how fast it left the barrel to get the rate of velocity, which is calculated over time, because to get that velocity, the chrono takes two reading entry and exit and then your FPS and Joules pops up. From that you can use that information to then calculate the range you get or there about. Range / Distance is just a function of air resistance, time and gravity for this. The same laws of physics and thermodynamics applies to all objects that are thrown with a force that imparts energy on them... as I have demonstrated time and time again that the same rules apply no matter what the scale you are at or where you are in the universe. If things didn't work like that, we would have broken the light speed in air with craft able to warp time and space and the laws of physics.... We don't do we, have that ability and why? Thermodynamics. Lets agree that something heavier is harder to throw and lets say you had your throw limited in energy, now a heavy rock is going to fall in front of you, a light stone will travel far... why? Mass. What are BB's ? they're little balls of mass. It doesn't matter which way people try to wrangle this, you are ignoring the facts of physics and thermodynamics, the two things that rule your life our existence and the way the universe works. They know this because when they went to the moon, they had pistols, why? Not for taking out space aliens but if they were in deep do-do, they could use the pistols and the recoil from them to lift off and get out of things like crater if they fell in to one. How would they know this would work? BALLISTICS. I learnt that one from school when a condensed version of the NASA entry test had been made available, its an aptitude test where you have an inventory and you have to order things in a list of priority. We failed that exercise in thinking outside the box but it was fun, the one thing that stuck out for me was the reason for pistols sin space. Again, examples of how energy operates, even in space, on the moon and so on.

Here is some early data from a quick chrono test. If you plug in the data in to the Zero one calculator and do the convertion, you see that variances exist and its pretty close to the change you expect with higher withg BB's on a fixed power input that affects the velocity. Thus showing that you want to speed up your BB's you have to go light weight. The video demonstrates (for the umpteenth time) that the fixed point is the slug weight and the variables were the pressure input of power in joules and the resulting FPS. Which as demonstrated, the sweet spot was 3700 ish PSI (from memory) which if you calculate it is 4880.8799 Joules that was put in to generating the higher velocity than the higher psi of 4500psi or lower psi than the sweet spot. It demonstrates the same thing with BB only your fixed source is your power rating in Joules. Do you not recall how you moved equations around in school to work out things from a couple of known elements, only the data you have needed the equation changing to fit your needs, like V = I/R in electrical engineering, you can find Amps ( I ) from the Voltage and the load resistance in watts. It similar process, you move the element until the desired parts are the answer. I have suggested people play with the Zero One calculator as it shows exactly what I am saying and I don't understand why people don't get this fact, its based in real life physics. Same pistol, same Joules, different BB weights.