Care & Feeding of Airsoft Devices

Hivemind187

Ok folks,

I am trying to put together a short guide to the care and maintainence of Airsoft hardware and I am looking for your input (mainly because I have all the manual skill of a cock-eyed kid with webbed fingers).

What I'm looking for is both the general "how to release tension on your spring" to the more specific "replacing worn out inner barrels on Tm M16A2 Rifles".

If the responses are good enough I'll bug Oisin to sticky it or add it to the "noob thread".

So break out your toolkits and show us your mad skillz!

**********PLEASE KEEP THIS STRICTLY ON TOPIC*********

ED E

Only the FAMAS i think has a release put fire 1 shot one semi and the spring will be fully foward.

kdouglas

Lethal_Bullet wrote:

Only the FAMAS i think has a release put fire 1 shot one semi and the spring will be fully foward.

yea, but firing the gun a couple of times in semi (or is it auto, i always forget??) will leave the spring in a released position


On-topic:
if your gearbox jams, it can often be fixed without opening the gearbox by using a screwdriver to relieve some of the tension on the gears (ie push the bevel gear back a bit) and using a paperclip or similar to hold the anti-reversal latch out of the way, thus allowing the gears to unwind and reset.

o1s1n

kdouglas wrote:

yea, but firing the gun a couple of times in semi (or is it auto, i always forget??) will leave the spring in a released position

That's more or less what lethal said in his post

kdouglas wrote:

On-topic:
if your gearbox jams, it can often be fixed without opening the gearbox by using a screwdriver to relieve some of the tension on the gears (ie push the bevel gear back a bit) and using a paperclip or similar to hold the anti-reversal latch out of the way, thus allowing the gears to unwind and reset.

I wouldn't mind seeing you do that sometime. Sounds like a handy thing to know.

Oh a side note, what are you doing online? Aren't you away being a scruffy student somewhere in Europe?

Sounds like a great idea anyway Hive. Definitely sticky material.

Mark_Sc

Hivemind187 wrote:

feeding of airsoft devices

I give mine fish food and protien build

kdouglas

o1s1n wrote:

That's more or less what lethal said in his post

whoops, read it wrong, thought he meant that could only be done on the FAMAS

o1s1n wrote:

I wouldn't mind seeing you do that sometime. Sounds like a handy thing to know.

its a handy enough trick alright, hard to explain how it's done in words though

o1s1n wrote:

Oh a side note, what are you doing online? Aren't you away being a scruffy student somewhere in Europe?

you havent noticed the fact that ive still been posting for the last few weeks then, no?
conveniently enough, most hostels around europe have internet access and i have to go online every few days to book my next destination anyway, so i get to keep up on whats going on around here

o1s1n

kdouglas wrote:

conveniently enough, most hostels around europe have internet access and i have to go online every few days to book my next destination anyway, so i get to keep up on whats going on around here

When I was in New York a few months ago, I couldn't help logging in here once and a while when I was online.

Are we really That geeky?:eek:

nonex

kdouglas wrote:

yea, but firing the gun a couple of times in semi (or is it auto, i always forget??) will leave the spring in a released position


On-topic:
if your gearbox jams, it can often be fixed without opening the gearbox by using a screwdriver to relieve some of the tension on the gears (ie push the bevel gear back a bit) and using a paperclip or similar to hold the anti-reversal latch out of the way, thus allowing the gears to unwind and reset.

where did i see that before? kd