Well r-6 gearbox training

[gaven555]

I need to learn how to work on my own gearbox, and i was thinking i would buy a cheap gun rip out the gearbox and begin the operation. I chose the well r-6 because it was cheap and it uses the same gearbox design as Tokyo Marui. I also chose them because they had a 30 day replacment offer if things went bad.
I have also obtained upgrading instructions so i dont go in there blind :???:

Are there better methods of learning how to upgrade airsoft guns?

(Im not buying this gun to shoot with i have heard of Well's terrible skill when it comes to making an Aeg that works!)

Thank you for visiting!

:cheers:

[Kid]

I used and suggest this.
It tells you all the hints and tricks.

http://www.airsoftplayers.com/mechbox/tutorial.asp

Good luck! Be slow and careful! Remember to hold the cylinder down as well as the spring guide, it can shoot out, and the spring could bend up and shoot things all over if you don't hold the cylinder too.

I got it first try, but be sure to follow carefully.

[Greylocks]

You realize that the moment you open up a gun, no matter how cheap, the warranty is void?
Just call it a throw-away experiment.

[Nabisco_Lobstrosity]

It's not like a Cyma/WELL AEG comes with a high price tag (relatively speaking, of course)! I can't think of a better platform to try your first gearbox swap.

What gear box is it a clone of .. so your're going to need a version II?

Get a better inner-barrel while you're at it. The WELL R6 has a brass one that is also painfully too short. You should be able to get that from the same place as your replacement gear box. The hop-up unit looks poor, too, but a whole new set can be hard to find some times.


If you want a real treat (or maybe if buying an entire v2 gearbox becomes a giant pain in the butt), you could get away with changing less about this gun ... but at the price of doing a lot more work.

Internally, the only parts this gun really needs replaced are:
- the brass inner barrel (even just a stock TM M4 barrel)
- the main spring (even just an M100)
- the o-ring (is actually decomposing, with little pieces coming off)
- the shims (they are cheap plastic, and they are melting when you shoot)

These are not expensive parts at all, and I can speak from personal experience that it will actually be a fairly decent-performing gun at that point. The only question is - exactly how brave do you feel about taking your gun apart?


Either way, you can do great things with this project. It's an excellent investment to learn from.

[gaven555]

I have a version 6 gear box; besides the shape whats is the difference between the version 2 and version 6?

[Nabisco_Lobstrosity]

... your gearbox looks like the one from a Tokyo Marui "P90"? ... Uh, well, ignoring that mine is a v2 ...

Other than shape, there really aren't any functional differences between a Version II and a Version VI gearbox that would apply in this case. The same bushings, gears, and piston are all interchangable.

Out of curiosity, of which of these two pictures does your gearbox most resemble?

[gaven555]

Nabisco!!! Are you insulting me!!! One on the right. There did i pass your test. Just messing hahahaha. Yeah you cuaght me i use a P90 Tr.'

Are you kidding all i need to replace in 100$ gun are the shims, O-ring, and barrel. From what i have heard the gears and bushings are bad even for a stock spring.

Hmmmm. you open up some questions.

[Nabisco_Lobstrosity]

Well, keep in mind that it comes down to which you are more comfortible doing - taking your gun apart and replacing the gearbox, or taking your gun apart before taking your GEARBOX apart, and replacing the parts inside of that.


Other people have done the same as me. A few things that I read before I messed with my R6 -

An example of frankensteining the R6 gearbox (placed in a TM M4)
An ASR Review plus commentary on internal work


I'd also be a jerk if I didn't point out that the holes for the bushings in some of the WELL R6's are just a fraction larger than regular gearboxes, and standard bushings don't fit as well as they should. After a while, a 6mm bushing will crap out like that. People with that problem often make the hole larger (7mm) and buy larger bushings. That's not a lot of fun to do.

A cheaper gun means more lax quality control when it was manufactured, and that means that doing any work on a clone/economic airsoft weapon involves being aware of what makes that particular product ... unique.

That's pretty much all the commentary I have on the WELL R6.

[gaven555]

Ok, thanks alot for the links and help