Oh yes.

All the cool kids are gonna be there lol

Wondering if the second tooth ended up acting as a pickup tooth...? If it did, that would have broke the last steel tooth... So perfectly timed PE on the 2nd tooth.....

If my tax refund magically came in today id go :(

Thats why i do mine right at ghe end of january and get direct deposite. Then i can get it fast (and spend it faster lol)

To me...

Looks like the gear slipped off the last (metal) tooth and raked the plastic teeth.

1. A crappy piston that let the last tooth flex/break out of position, allowing the gear to rake the plastic teeth is possible. That would be a piston failure.

2. If it was cycling way too fast...the sector gear came around and picked up the piston on the 2/3/4'th tooth, the piston would jam back and then the last tooth would break or slip out of positon and the gear would rake the teeth as in the pic. That'd be early engagement.

3. If the piston was getting hung up on the rails, it could result in early engagement and break/strip things as you described. But I find it a bit unlikely as it did shoot/cycle a number of times and 3 shot bursts before it failed (unless it sounded like a grinder for those shots).

It didn't sound like there were that many shots before failure...but there doesn't seem to be any wear/tear on the first tooth (pickup) or second.

I choose #1 lol. Looks to me thats exactly what happened the last tooth (the metal one) broke for whatever reason (likely just cause it sucked) and the way it broke it is still in the piston but can wiggle and lay down almost flat when there is pressure put on from the front side thus allowing ylthe piston to slip forward one tooth. When it slips there is only one or two plastic teeth tryin to hold back the 400ish fps spring thus causing the teeth to fail just as the sector is finnishing its cycle so it was only enough sector to piston contact time to strip those few teeth as opposed to the whole piston.

Ive been running the stock cylender (4/5 port) with a 455mm inner.
Im going to be putting a thicker sorbo pad so now ill likely be running short on cylender volume for the barrel. You think i should swap in a full cylender to combat this?
Was looking at the modify enhanced cylender for 450-590 inners thatll leave me room to put in a longer inner for my dmr build that im going for with this gun.
http://www.airsoftparts.ca/store2/im...linder-aeg.JPG

The thickness of a sorbo pad really won't change your cylinder volume THAT much, as long as you're removing the stock pad and only adding enough to correct AoE. You're only losing the slightest bit, translating to maybe 20 or 30 mm of barrel length which is nothing.

Hectic is like a woman after menopause... no periods

John has said that - and I quote - "I refuse to read Hectic's posts. It hurts my head".

He also needs to turn on the spell check on his smart phone.

BUT, his posts are at the stage where I am too lazy to be the grammar/spelling Nazi.

Just do what I do, skim! Then wait for someone else to read it and post. Then read their reply before you post referencing his thread title. Hahaha!

I put a ruler on my screen so I dont read the same line twice.

Very effective, except you look like an dumbass who's trying to get the length of is computer screen at work... You should try it!!

Lmfao! good stuff. Hectic I'm laughing with you, not at you. I swear!!!

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