First...I am by no means the be all and end all guru of AEGs. There are FAR, FAR more competent gun docs than myself. That said, I've fiddled with more than a few over the years and think that I have a decent working knowledge of what it takes to make them tick.
Secondly...there are ALWAYS more than one way to skin a cat, so any specifics written by me should be taken with a grain of salt, and all other opinions/techniques/etc should be considered as well.
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this post/thread is to provide concise, well written, proven processes and procedures to consider when troubleshooting AEGs. The same questions (from an experience point of view) get posted over, and over and over. Fair enough when taken from the newbie perspective...but painfull to reitterate an answer every time.
AUDIENCE:
This post/thread is aimed at the persons who are a newbie/neophyte at troubleshooting their AEGs. This does not solely mean the "just started haven't played a game, bought the first thing I could find and it doesn't work" persons.....this may be helpful to those vertran shooters who haven't a clue aside from inserting a battery, adding BBs and slaying bodies (we all know at least someone like that....I for some reason know several
).
CONTENT:
I will endevour to keep the content relevant. Things change over time, but the fundamentals don't. This post/thread will NOT detail how to shim...it will NOT detail how to set your AOE...it will NOT detail which gear ratio workes best with what spring to match which motor to result in what FPS and ROF.
This thread WILL refer to such things though...and the search function is just a click away.
I will try to keep linking in other concise threads that are helpful to those specifics (and there are some very nice ones buried somewhere on this forum). An I will, of course, be more than open to including any info from others that have something concise, accurate and well written to add.