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Originally Posted by wildcard
just a little history lesson SORBO pad idea was done before SORBO pad was in existence by Wilson from SD-Unit he was teh first one I see to place a small cushion felt on a cylinder head to minimize teh impact force from using a PDI 300% spring on his SG1 (yes we use to play with 450+fps limits. I can proved this is the set up I have on my TM HK51 that I have since 91, properly shimmed, upgraded with probably the best combination of parts for a V2.
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Very cool. I'd love to see some pictures / hear some more stories about "old school" solutions like these.
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Originally Posted by wildcard
Now back on topic For a nub with little or no experience with tinkering the best bet for an upgrade is still a prebuild mech box from either Lonex or Modify if they want something a bit more extreme then why not go to a remotely external line system like Polarstar.
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After reviewing it myself, I'm starting to think that the Lonex gearbox is not only good for newbs but also lazy techs like myself. You're basically getting a gearbox that is already loaded with aftermarket upgrade parts. It is however super expensive in terms of dollars. I still think it is a good value though...
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Originally Posted by wildcard
We are all hobbyist but unless you have lots of spare time to tinker around, I would rather buy something already done and spend most of my time on the field instead at home tinkering. also just a FYI all that stuff you quote about Marui V2, Most of us have figured that shit out in the late 90's when we are all playing HK style maybe a little bit on this later on but boy am I glad that shit part of Canadian airsoft is over
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Agreed. I don't have the perspective of history that you have, but I'm interested in seeing what happens next, i.e. whether we'll see companies like G&P actually adopt more of the solutions that are being used by techs and such in the field to improve durability and reliability. The only two "community" solutions I've personally noticed taken up by airsoft manufacturers (so far) are removal of the second tooth of the piston and the cylinder window radiusing by G&G.
KWA has been big on the marketing bit claiming their guns are "lipo ready" which is essentially a high-RoF, high-discharge, high-reliability claim.. However, from what I have seen they're not correcting for AoE, not using MOSFETs, or any of that stuff. This is annoying, especially since the mag-tickling masses that you refer to seem to be snapping this sort of product up and thinking they're good to go. I'd really like to see some more hardass testing and judgement laid down by the airsoft review crowd...