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Originally Posted by jw4563
I have a stock g17 for comparison. The g17 is very smooth to rack, almost cant feel the hammer. The g18 with the hammer spring, there is a noticeable amount of force required to get pass the hammer.
The gun can still shoot through it, but i feel its causing an increased in pressure inside the nozzle in order to get pass the hammer. This might be why my guarder nozzles keep breaking (albeit their reputation wasnt that good to begin with).
Also, any other tips to prevent light strikes aside from hammer springs? Ive had cases in Socal hot weather where the valves just refuse to open. I even tried a 1 sec fill of gas and my gun still cant get the valve open. This is all with propane on a g18 with guarder hammer spring.
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Your theory is valid IF the loading muzzle CAN NOT retract and THERE IS NO SLIDE ACTION.
Remember, the action will trip the magazine valve disconnector to stop the flow of air coming from the magazine. Furthermore, If your gun's BBU is working like it should, the action should also force your loading muzzle to retract once it reaches a certain point during the rear stroke. Thus, it will depressurize it self.
Plus, you've have to have zero air leaks in your piston head to for it explode the way your describing.
Your Guarder muzzle is breaking because it can't handle repeated impacts in successive rates. Polycarbonate is great at absorbing ONE huge shock but having repeated impacts, it fails.
There's a whole bunch of places that the G18c loading muzzle hits on the BBU. It's a matter of time before one of these places begin to crack.
One of mine was completely severed in half.
Light strikes....
Use a Shooter's Design Hammer spring instead of Guarder ones.
The Shooter's Design springs survived a magazine heated up to about 45 degrees. Against the Guarder one that failed at 34.5 degrees for some reason. lol.
The only other way I can see preventing any light strikes from happening is if you switch to a lower pressurized power source like Duster gas....
Or unless you manually cool down your magazine a bit before you shoot it.
Run it under a cold tap, put it in the fridge. I dunno. Whatever floats your boat.
Just make sure you don't freeze it. lol.
And make sure that it has room to actually cool down when your actually firing it....
I dunno.
Maybe there are other ways people try to avoid them but that would be my suggestion...