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Originally Posted by Skruface
Check out MadMax's "ROFinator" thread - he was stripping pistons in an M249 and realized that the piston head he was using was +/-1mm thinner than the stock one, and was causing his teeth to be out of alignment with the gears at the "full stop" position of the piston, stripping the piston. You may have the same issue....
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I found the same thing, except it was the piston body that was about 1mm shorter than the piston that worked fine. It would sit slightly forward in the cylinder, the sector gear's rear tooth (the big one) wouldn't engage with the piston teeth properly, ended up shaving a curved notch in that large big tooth at the end. For the heck of it, since it seemed that piston could still work, I put in a washer or two between the head and body, which would align the piston with the sector gear, but the damage was too much for it to work after that.
After a couple stripped pistons, same place, same cutout from the sector gear, the owner said to hell with it and we kept the stock TM piston in there and no problems since.
I agree with Kokanee and Droc as well, TM pistons have never caused any problems for me. Heh, I remember Kokanee's M4 going down one of those days, during respawn he showed me the broken piston in his mechbox. He relied on his 1911 spring the rest of the day, made the mistake of trying to sneak up on me from the side while I was "pot shotting" guys in the base.
