Echo 1 MP5 RIS/RAS

[Vanchen]

I got this gun about a month ago http://www.airsoftgi.com/product_inf...oducts_id=2610 and it has worked extremely well but I was wondering about the consistency of it. I was reading some articles and they said that a spring over 400FPS will detiorate the motor and the gun faster than a 360FPS gun. Is this true? Also, should I get gloves? Wouldn't they make it hard to do finer tasks and such?

[SHÖCK]

Nothing to do with the motor but the version 2 mechbox will eventually crack over a period of usage with an over 400 FPS spring.

Gloves are completely up to you.

[Muffin]

The tighter the spring, the more stress is on the gearbox and all its innards. I put my guns to 350 cause thats a safe velocity and is allowed in an indoor arena in a nearby city.

I wear oakley assault gloves and love them, hand shots suck.

[Vanchen]

How can you lower the spring power cause that was the stock FPS

[TokyoSeven]

Springs can be swapped out to change the FPS. A cheaper method is to take the spring and physically cut a coil or two off, however results vary with that method.

[Vanchen]

Wow if I knew it was this much trouble I would have got a different gun. I don't want to open the gun up because ill problably break it

[theguy]

Take it to a gundoc in your area.
A quick spring change shouldn't cost you more then 25 bucks labour+12 for the spring.

[kalnaren]

Originally Posted by Vanchen

Wow if I knew it was this much trouble I would have got a different gun. I don't want to open the gun up because ill problably break it

A spring swap will probably be the easiest thing you'll even do on an AEG mechbox.

[Muffin]

Originally Posted by Vanchen

Wow if I knew it was this much trouble I would have got a different gun. I don't want to open the gun up because ill problably break it

A fellow teammate of mine has the same gun, but I'm not sure I like it. It doesn't seem to be a clone of any generic MP5 as the takedown is rather odd.
Locate a gun doc in your city and have him/her look after it.

[Gravewolf]

Dont even think about taking apart this gun without any instructions because it has many screws and areas you have to watch out for. The first time i took it apart took me 2 hours and another hour to put it back again. But now i can pull apart this baby in 15 minutes or less and have been able to maintain my gun without going to a gun doc which saves me a lot of money and i have gone through 30,000 bb's with only changing the piston and bushings and im still at 400fps. But its safer if you just try to find a good gun doc to downgrade the spring, but if you are really serious about this hobby you should start doing research and ask a lot of veterans to learn to be able to tend to your own gun.

[Vanchen]

Thanks for the advice but I won't be in the sport for another 2/3 years.