SHS 1-piece cylinder head for AK/ver.3
 

So long story short; I bought one of these: http://airsoftdepot.ca/catalog/produ...oducts_id=3682

Tried to drop it into my CYMA ver.3 gearbox; but the little "tab" on the cylinder head was in the way. No biggie, I decided to shear off the tab and attempt to re-fit it. The holes still have trouble lining up correctly; and the inner grooves on the cut-out window (where the cylinder typically sits) do not seem to line up very nicely.

Am I boned here, or should I keep attempting to modify this thing to fit? There's no returning it now, but I'd still like to get some sort of performance for my $30.

If anyone else has had experience with these single-piece cylinder sets from SHS, please feel free to weigh in. I'll throw up some pictures upon request.

Did you read the peer review before buying?

http://airsoftdepot.ca/catalog/produ...kb3k076i69hf22

Cat's out of the bag, that's me (may be a little presumptuous of me to have left that review without going the whole nine yards first).

Good sleuthing, though.

cyma aks use a v2 cylinder head, I mentioned this in another thread, I have encountered very few v3 gearboxes that actually use a v3 head. You can safely use a v2 head in almost all of them.

Interesting! I'll have to test that out.

I made one of these shs ver3 one piece units fit a ver2 gearbox just by using a burr in my die grinder to open up the cylinder locating holes. Never did try one in a ver3 though :-?