M82 SOCOM GEAR - internal upgrade with SR25 gear box
 

At first I will show some image for the whole view of my beloved SOCOM GEAR M82

http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/.../M82cokkpy.jpg


http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/...dboy1/gun3.jpg

http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/...dboy1/gun4.jpg


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now star the story of upgrade

We all know SOCOM GEAR M82 is a very expensive toys however it is not the ultimate airsoft gun with an gear box V2 , you will have limitation with the length of cylinder.

The SR25 V2.5 gear box - longer cylinder look like the answer to that problem... we have more space to input any kind of spring we want, my one I get the SP170 into that gear box.

The internal of M82 is a little bit tricky, the gear box have to have an support frame to hold the gear together with the body _ up & down

http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/...1/DSC_0087.jpg

However the support frame is made for V2 gear and I can not made the new support frame to go with the SR25 ( technical almost impossible ) ---> solution ---> drill directly into the gear SR25 to be able to attached with that support frame

http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/...1/DSC_4612.jpg


Finally its looks like this inside

http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/...1/DSC_4610.jpg


http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/...1/DSC_4608.jpg

The story is not finished here ... next problem is the magazine

SOCOM GEAR M82 is the real size M82 magazine

http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/...dboy1/mag4.jpg

inside the big mag is the small little M16VN mag

http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/...dboy1/mag3.jpg

http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/...dboy1/mag2.jpg


due to the fact that SR25 gear box is much longer than V2 so the hop up location should be a little forward ---> the little mag inside must move forward so that the new location of bb load match with new hop up location


http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/...boy1/mag-1.jpg


http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/...boy1/mag-2.jpg


It take me a month to have the perfect internal location

http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/...dboy1/mag1.jpg


http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/...adboy1/mag.jpg


http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/...y1/hop-up3.jpg


I have use the "sock transfer system" together with this hop up - modified hop up appear to be a very good hop up from Taiwan

http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/...y1/hop-up2.jpg


http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/...y1/hop-up1.jpg


Finished


http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/.../M82cokkpy.jpg


bonus - the shock transfer for outer barrel....just like the real one

http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/...boy1/loxo2.jpg

http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/...boy1/loxo1.jpg

By the way .... I'm from VIETNAM ---> and this report is made by me in my garden in VN

Very nice work!

I would have been tempted to use foam shims and epoxy to fix the new position of the mag within the shell.

I'm modding a Polar Start to fit one with a full length barrel. No issues with running out of air for the barrel length.

the steel frame I mod inside the magazine create a very realistic weight ... now you can feel heavy in all part of the gun

crazy man! ;))

Great work.



I thought the polar star mechboxes where just simple V2 drop ins.
or are you doing some custom work that doesnt involve fitment ?

bravo Badboy, bravoooooooooooooo!