Learning about internals

bullets

Hi all,

Where do I go to learn about the internals of AEG's?
Ie stripping/upgrading just exactly how they work etc.

I look at exploding diagrams and kooking at the likes
of gears etc looks like mecano sets and daunting to
modify or mess about with.

I want to be able to take care of my new beauties and
maintain them if needed.

~B

Fiach Dubh

www.mechbox.com

A number of videos showing how to strip some AEG's and mechboxes

CrazyRabbit

Learn chinese. Then you can read the manuals that come with most of them.

Also would have to agree with Fiach's suggestion. Great site that I used to learn about my AK Beta. I keep asking them to do a G3-SG1, and they are considering it!

kdouglas

mechbox.com is quite good, but nothing beats hands-on experience... if i remember from your thread you bought a cyma mp5 in mmmad a week or two ago? open it up and mess around with it, and leave your nice expensive King Arms FAL alone until something needs to be fixed

bullets

Thats great stuff thanks,
Some scary little ittle pieces there!

~B

kdouglas

aye, seems scary at first, but once you do it once or twice your grand, just take your time the first time and when your opening the gearbox, try putting it inside a clear plastic bag so that if any parts fly out, they'll be caught instead of flying across the room.

Mark_Sc

kdouglas wrote:

aye, seems scary at first, but once you do it once or twice your grand, just take your time the first time and when your opening the gearbox, try putting it inside a clear plastic bag so that if any parts fly out, they'll be caught instead of flying across the room.

I remember when i started stripping down my tippmann A5 a sppring came flying out along with some other stuff.... took me about 2 hours to get it all back together

kdouglas

main thing to watch out for is the main spring and spring guide, which will fly out the back of the gearbox, some gearboxes you can put a screwdriver in the back of the spring guide when your opening it to hold it in place....

watch out for the trigger and spring too, they can be a bit awkward to get back in

yank_in_eire

I got an e-book for upgrading/maintaining my M16 from airsoftpress.com. It tells you step by step how to dismantle the whole kit - they make them for different types of AEG as well.

Mark_Sc

While we are talking about this can anyone name a spring that might downgrade my JG M4 to around 1 joule and where I might get it?

liamo333

http://cgi.ebay.com/King-Arms-1J-330fps-Spring-Upgrade-f-Marui-Airsoft-AEG_W0QQitemZ270141942378QQihZ017QQcategoryZ64635QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem

EyesOnly

you could allows buy the Airsoft Guide DVDs from http://www.airsoft-direct.co.uk/category.php?cat=1001

CrazyRabbit

You could always go live with Kdouglas for a week or two. They move in with Liamo333, then Fiach.

liamo333

CrazyRabbit wrote:

You could always go live with Kdouglas for a week or two. They move in with Liamo333, then Fiach.

Ya wa?

CrazyRabbit

liamo333 wrote:

Ya wa?

Ya pretty good with the mechanics of AEG's right?

kdouglas

personally i wouldn't bother paying for the airsoftpress ebooks or the dvd's, i've seen a couple of the ebooks, and while the information in them is quite good, it can be easily found online for free with a bit of searching, they've just compiled it all into one nice convenient pdf, alot of the info in the different ebooks is the same (generic info such as what's required for a high speed/high torque setup etc...) and then there's a few model/brand specific bits that change for each one

the dvd's on the other hand i haven't seen yet, but with mechbox.com and youtube, you'll probably find most of the content


CrazyRabbit: people are more than welcome to come live with me to learn about (gearbox) internals, once they are female, good-looking and dont mind sharing a bed, your more than welcome


Edit: ah feck it, female and a pulse will do

Mark_Sc

liamo333 wrote:

Ya wa?

I think he was implying that the 4 of you are gay

And thanks for the link

CrazyRabbit

Mark_Sc wrote:

I think he was implying that the 4 of you are gay

And thanks for the link

Eh....no.

Evolute

Just take your AEG apart and check out the internals. I'm sure there all easy to figure out which is which mine were easy enough to figure out. I didn't mess with any of them I was just checking them out in case I ever need to change something. Its all back together now works perfectly too. Just need silicone oil now and I'm sorted:p

PS: I know were to get it I'm just incredibly lazy:D