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Originally Posted by KEVORKIAN
I'm looking at assembling this slide/frame combo:
http://www.redwolfairsoft.com/redwol...l?prodID=25095
From what I see from Illusions lug diagram, my Airsoft Surgeon slide has them all, or am I seeing things?
My AS frame is No# 09
What should I do before I render the slide useless! |
I have that same set and smashed that exact same slide to the point of uselessness. I have frame # CL 05.
I blamed myself for using a Tanio Koba one piece outer barrel with it - I figured it must have been the cause of the damage.
Dismayed but not totally given up, I contacted the manufacturer of the kit and acquired a replacement slide as well as their OWN in house polished 304 stainless steel one-piece outer barrel/chamber. That barrel showed up and it was like opening my very own engagement ring. That thing was so shiny and bright... it HAD to work. So I reassembled it all back together, ran through some firing tests, worked out a couple of kicks and bugs, and then... NOOOO! I see a piece of black metal pop up in to the air after a shot. I take a look and see that the slide was now over riding the chamber again.
yarrrrrr. anger ensued. Yet another $200 down the drain. Two dead slides worth $230 each, less than 3 mags through each of them.
This put me on a bit of a path and I went through days of drawing diagrams and discussing this issue with the manufacturer to figure out why this was happening. Speaking to RacingManiac, he said his had the exact same problem as my two slides - so it wasn't just my setup.
Strangely enough, I can't even say all their slides are bad. I've installed them before using Shooters design chamber/barrel sets and all worked fine, even after an extended period of use. So maybe only Shooters Design slides are bad?
Anyways, I didn't really want to dump another $230 to get a 3rd slide, so I shipped the two slides back to the manufacturer, told them to turn them in to hybrid slides and to make me a gold plated sight tracker outer barrel to fit it and send it all back to me and I'd be done with it.
So ultimately, there are two good things that came out of this:
1) We came up with a new slide design with the additional 5th lug. Slightly different design from what's currently available on the market, but it should prove to be effective at preventing this from happening again.
2) Now I'll end up with a pistol way more blinged out than I'd originally hoped, with a spare slide in case some other obscene damage occurs that I couldn't foresee...