Replacement piston advice

Hivemind187

All right gear-heads,

My ICS M4-CQB has effectively chipped a piston tooth and now the gears arent catching the piston correctly so I have to get a new one.

I am know that Systema, Gaurder and a few other companies are producing pistons in a range of materials from aluminium to teflon to polycarbonate and I am wondering if anyone has replaced parts or uprgaded using one of these funky pieces of kit?

I am looking primarily for strength and reliability and rate of fire as a nice bonus so let me know folks.

Is getting one with half teeth for RoF worth it? What about materials? And the weight?

Spitfire666

airsoft gi do a lightweight aluminium one for about 30 dollars.

liamo333

I'd reccomend getting a polycarbonate one. A metal one might strip your gears and those isc ones will be expensive to replace

Hivemind187

liamo333 wrote:

I'd reccomend getting a polycarbonate one. A metal one might strip your gears and those isc ones will be expensive to replace

Luckily the ICS gears are bomb proof All metal chunky things.

kdouglas

id agree with polycarbonate, having steel gears running against aluminium just has bad idea written all over it in my mind.

have a guarder piston in my mp5, which has been fully upgraded to 1 joule with about 20+rps and never had a problem with it, i'd say all the high end ones are basically the same, but i wouldnt turn my nose up at the element ones on rsov either, they're quite cheap and seem to be of semi-decent quality.

liamo333

The element ones are excellent quality.

Hivemind187

Why the polycarbonate over the aluminium? Just for strength?

liamo333

Its lighter, cheaper, better rof and less likley to damage/wear your gears regardless of how strong they are.

Hivemind187

Excellent, and which manufacturer? Sytema or Guarder? (I want the better stuff so this **** doesnt happen again)

liamo333

Id say systema. While your at it It might be worth your while replacing the spring (orignal would have bedded down a little) cylider, piston head and cylinder head and air nozzle.

Hivemind187

liamo333 wrote:

Id say systema. While your at it It might be worth your while replacing the spring (orignal would have bedded down a little) cylider, piston head and cylinder head and air nozzle.

Whoa whoa ... slow down there cowboy. I did biology not mechanics.

which bit is which and what does it do?

kdouglas

liamo333 wrote:

Id say systema. While your at it It might be worth your while replacing the spring (orignal would have bedded down a little) cylider, piston head and cylinder head and air nozzle.

ever hear of "if it aint broken, dont fix it"

it's an ICS, they're quite good, i wouldnt bother going and replacing all of that, maybe the spring if you wanted to upgrade, but that depends on personal preference and what fps your getting at the moment.

Hivemind187

kdouglas wrote:

ever hear of "if it aint broken, dont fix it"

it's an ICS, they're quite good, i wouldnt bother going and replacing all of that, maybe the spring if you wanted to upgrade, but that depends on personal preference and what fps your getting at the moment.

I think its hitting about 290 ish so I dont really see the need for much more power than that. The lighter bolt and increased rof might be good though, I tend to provide suppressing fire in controlled bursts so putting large clouds of fire down field as quick as possible.

Spitfire666

liamo333 wrote:

Its lighter, cheaper, better rof and less likley to damage/wear your gears regardless of how strong they are.

Actualy, the aluminium one i was refering to is stripped of eccess weight and is therefore lighter then the poly ones while still being stronger so less strain on the gears.

Harekin

I think it was his point about having steel against aluminium, the steel is gonna strip the aluminium.