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Originally Posted by Dynamo
so if something works well for a while it's considered outdated? the only benefit i can see with your design is that it would be less likely to loose the nub when disassembling the hopup. so for like 3x the cost of a normal plastic hopup arm and nub that do the job just fine, you have solved the issue of loosing the nub. great.
sorry if it sounds like im bashing you as it's not my intension, it's just that it seems like you're over thinking and over engineering something that already works really well. if you could make something that works like a PTW hopup for AEGs, i'll take 3.
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My point was that many consider cylindrical nubs to be outdated. I know it is different in Canada, but most people on ASF are moving away from cylindrical nubs, and moving on to flat extended nubs, and most of ASF are from the US. I believe that the SCS was a good start, but having a cylindrical nub leads to very short contact times (can be seen as a single line of contact), and the use of a hard plastic nub exacerbates the flaws in the bb. In addition, the short contact time/area makes it necessary for the nub to protrude further into the barrel, displacing the bb more vertically within the hopup as the bb goes by, which is another source of inconsistency within the hopup itself.
Oddly enough, losing the nub hints at a larger "problem", which is that the nub is allowed to move and rotate. This is mostly not a problem with cylindrical nubs, but with flat nubs, as the bb goes by, it creates a torque, and not securing the nub to the arm is an area which can be improved upon. I am offering nubs which are compatible with the stock hopup arm, but I do not think they will be as effective.
As to the ptw arm, I was really looking forward to the deepfire aeg ptw hopup upgrade, but apparently they cancelled it...