CNC Machined Charging Handles for AABB Hera Arms GCC & CPE Kits

[Rob15]

Owners of the Hera Arms GCC and CPE pistol carbine kits will know how basic the standard charging handles are, now you can upgrade them with these new LPE CNC machined charging handles. The first batch sizes have been very small so I'm posting this here before anywhere else to give Arnies Airsoft Forums members a chance to get one first.

 

Both have been designed to be more comfortable and grippier in use than the originals and to fit in with the design of the carbine kits themselves, the GCC version is also slightly shorter than the original to reduce the chance of it snagging on gear. The GCC charging handle is priced at £13 and the CPE version at £11.

 

From left to right - Original GCC charging handle, LPE low profile GCC charging handle, original CPE charging handle, LPE enhanced CPE charging handle

 

Please see the following links to buy and for full descriptions,

 

CNC Machined charging handle for AABB GCC

 

CNC Machined charging handle for AABB CPE

[NonEx]

This doesn't appeal to me personally but I appreciate your work and products mate, keep it up!

[paranoiddroid]

Rob could you make the charging handle work with just a 1911 slide? not one installed into the kit as a friend of mines hands are starting to lose fine motor control and racking a slide is sometimes hard work. something IDK attached to the rear sight base?

[gisburn20]

@droid

 

There are charging handles available for hicapas that replace the rear sight, but the stock 1911 rear sight has a pretty small connection to the slide and might not be strong enough, you can put a hicapa slide on a 1911 though (assuming both are tm spec)

 

Jim

[paranoiddroid]

Is there enough of a difference in slides that it's visually obvious that it is a hicapa slide?

[gisburn20]

Not much really, or find a more modern 1911 like an meu or something that takes bomar sights.

 

http://www.ebairsoft.com/mobile/gb283b-marui-capa-cocking-handle-black-p-4766.html

 

This is what I meant for the cocking handle, but unless LPE can do you something custom you lose the rear sight, these are made for raceguns with optics really.

 

Jim

[Rob15]

Rob could you make the charging handle work with just a 1911 slide? not one installed into the kit as a friend of mines hands are starting to lose fine motor control and racking a slide is sometimes hard work. something IDK attached to the rear sight base?

As Gisburn has already said, there are already ISPC charging handles that fit into the rear sight dovetail, my manual mill is tied up with a long production job at the moment but even if it wasn't I'm not sure what I could do differently with the same sort of mounting, I'd give that a try first personally. If keeping the rear sight at the standard height is important then actually mounting a charging handle directly to the slide may be the only option if there is enough material in the slide and BBU to drill and tap a hole, but that involves modifying the slide itself so not really ideal.

[gisburn20]

Modifying an ISPC handle to use as a rear sight could be as simple as filing a notch on it to be fair, worth trying that first if Rob is tied up.

 

Keep up the good work Rob.

 

(P.s. more MK23 spares would be nice...)

 

Jim