[Drakker]

That's one bad experience with an LCT product. Some batches had badly installed hop-up rubbers, this is known, but that was a few years back. Ask most people using LCTs and they will tell you that they have been running it stock for years with no malfunction. Mine is super reliable, all I did to it was install a mosfet to preserve the trigger contacts, because I use a 11.1 lipo in it. I did not even change the hop-up rubber, it fires 0.36 really really well, they go far and straight. Mine can hop 0.40g BBs no problem. The air seal was perfect.

The gears were also pretty well shimmed out of the box, I think I might have added one or two 0.1mm shim but that's it, the job took less than 5 minutes. The gears were not stuck in the bearings. If I didn't have to open the gearbox to solder the mosfet wires and put in a weaker spring (got it around 340fps on 0.20g, to be CQB safe), I wouldn't even have re-shimmed the gears, the gun sounded great out of the box.

Really, the only thing you could legitimately complain about on LCT AEGs is the rather weak motors, a better motor would give you a better trigger response, but the stock motor on a 11.1 lipo still gives a good trigger response.