I’ve been behind on emails recently because of work commitments. I plan to archive and not action any news submissions made before 2nd April 2009 on the basis that duplicates have been posted for most in the news section of the forums.
If you have sent me something that you would like dealt with and posted please drop me a line and I’ll add it for you.
Apologies folks I will send out replies to those that have sent in emails to make everyone aware that the emails have not been ignored.
I haven’t posted one of these for ages, however this one was a bit too off the wall to pass up. I receive a heck of a lot of spam, of which 99.9% gets killed dead by spam filters; however occasionally a human being will take the time to contact us through the website with some outlandish request.
In our latest instalment Pakistan apparently needs (engage Keanu Reeves voice) “guns… lots of guns”.
Before getting to the email I’ve just read, lets just go over the major obvious points here:
Do people actually randomly email sites like this saying “I want to buy guns” ?
Continue reading ‘Arn’s random moment: oddball email orders #2358′
Your beloved Traser/H3 watch has a dead battery, is on its third strap, looks like it has indeed survived a bomb blast and suffered several bad days at work. Where do you go to get it repaired?
My own P6500 desperately needed some loving earlier this week. That’s not to say I’ve not been unkind to it, but I had worn it for a lot of rough jobs and outings. The crown was worn smooth and a lot of chunks had been nicked out of it. The strap pins were also a little bent and the battery was dead.
I have to mention here that my own H3 came from Jo at Flecktarn.co.uk. It has provided many years of faultless service in extreme conditions and as ever they have my thanks. They still sell H3 watches and their service has always impressed me.
After a quick look around I came across Greens Watch Services Ltd who are (according to their website) the sole authorised Sales and Service centre for Traser H3 watches in the UK. I obviously wanted a decent job done and after checking their comprehensive list of service options I made the decision to get the repairs done with them.
I added into the shipping box a new KHS Raptor strap that I had purchased from H3 WatchCorner and packed it all away into the post.
To my surprise I got a call from Greens shortly after lunch the next day to say that the work was done and my watch would be back with me tomorrow (after payment of course). The cost of the service, new battery, replaced crown, fitting the new strap and delivery came to £36 which seemed more than reasonable. My P6500 was back with me the following day by RM Special Delivery. To say I was impressed was an understatement.
I’ve added a couple of shots of the new strap and the replaced parts. Forgive the poor photos but there’s just not time to setup pro shots at this time of night. I’d also like to thank the ‘missing link’ that popped round and allowed me to take the photo of the watch on his arm.
Well I’m finally down to having just one email to reply to (woohoo!) and now have an empty email inbox which is rather bliss. Apologies to anyone with an email or news item that didn’t go up as quick as they’d like but we’re all only human.
Well that’ll most likely be it for news posts from me this year. Roll on 2009! Thanks go out to everyone that makes things what they are around here including forum staff news editors, friendly retailers and our supporters that make this site possible.
I wish you all a prosperous New Year! Remember enjoy your drinks responsibly.. or something. 
After a quick bit of playing around Arnies is now readily accessible from most PDAs. I’ve just tested it on Windows Mobile 5/6 here and systems like the PSP that have a web browser in them and all look pretty good.
Quick access key shortcuts are enabled and images in news posts are resized to work with the browser window keeping size down and mobile screens tidy.
To try this out on your own gear simply point the browser on your PDA or phone to http://arniesairsoft.co.uk and the rest just happens.
If anyone gets an problems with the browser showing you the PDA page instead of the usual one let me know via email (arnie [at] arniesairsoft [dot] co [dot] uk)
I thought I’d just add up a small note from me as I’ve been away from email and not had time to get through my work here lately. I’m going to have a bit of a purge and get back to everyone that I can who has dropped me an email ASAP. It may well take 24-48hrs though so please bear with me.
As you may have noticed we’ve been experiencing downtime and page load troubles which have got worse and worse and reached crisis point in the past 48hours.
The site was disabled in the past 24hours whilst maintenance took place on our machine, sorry for any confusion this may have caused, but the site had to be taken offline to conduct some work.
We know that the hosting that we have and the machine that we are currently on has some major issues. As to what we are unable to diagnose them and our hosting company isn’t a huge amount of help. Everything is still running and data is secure (we’ve also got several backups on a second drive) however service is pretty poor due to this undiagnosed issue.
In light of this we’re currently shopping around and in negotiation to move our data to a new dedicated box with a much larger specification. We’ve got a new hosting company that we are happy with, we’ve got funds now to cover for another 12-24months, and now I have to sit down and write out a list of requirements for things like data that we need moved etc. This will take time, but hopefully it’ll all be sorted in the coming week or so. There’s a lot to move and we want to get it right first time, so things might not be as quyick as we’d all like.
I can’t do much other than ask people to hang in there, we’re not going anywhere, but demand is simply outstripping the facilities available at the moment, the new machine will (fingers crossed) cure all these problems.
Well it’s 2007 at last! To chime in with FarEast’s earlier message - Happy New Year to all! Of course it was easy to spot that it was New Year as the original Superman film is on the tv (they stick it on like clockwork here).
We have a fair few aims and resolutions that we plan to make and keep to this year. I’m not going to type up a roundup of the year, as for one I’ve not had the time and for another well… if you’ve been reading the news that’s out and are a regular you already know what’s happened this year!
Just as a small aside there’s a few questions that we keep getting asked and as they are fairly frequent I thought I’d answer some of them here:
Now I’m going to sit and drink the fresh brew pot of caffiene that I’ve just stuck on and finish my ironing and see if Lex has a different plot or wig this year.
Just some random stuff I found that I thought I’d post up. It’s not directly airsoft related but will suit the outdoor types and those looking for useful bits of kit for duty gear or hiking:
Just a couple that I thought I’d post were a handy item for attaching a dispoable bottle of water to webbing or a belt, and a milspec folding mountain bike (dead handy for sticking in the car boot). Both products are from a company by the name of Civilian Labs. Their products can be found here in the UK through Heinnie.com. Civilian Labs handily accept PayPal payments for their online cart system.
There’s more useful gear there, and anyone looking for more directly relating airsoft related gear will like the range of lamps and tools available at Heinnie impressive - the Dark Ops Hellfire X11 is pretty hard to find in the UK for one.
Well this is just a quick note from me really (I am working over Christmas here).
All the staff here at ArniesAirsoft would like to wish you all a safe, happy and enjoyable Christmas Holiday. I’m off to get some sleep here then see if I can get my wrapping done and the turkey cooked in five hours time 
Well I’m getting there, only 1,273 emails to go.. anyway, in the world of random things this one was rather bizzare. Someone has actually taken time to fax an order to the website for some random stuff.
Now, just for the record for anyone who isn’t a regular reader:
We are not a retailer. We don’t sell anything. We have nothing to sell. We don’t sell stuff. Stuff here is not for sale. Retailer we are not. etc.
There’s hundreds of mails in my box asking to buy this that and the other. Honest I don’t sell anything and this site isn’t a retailer.
Case #32b: A Mr P.N.G. Kurup of Hayut International (in Oman apparently) wants thirty SUSATs and a box of mounts to go with them so decided to fax this website to buy some.
Dear Mr Kurup, please do see the note above that details in er.. great detail. This is an Airsoft website, even if we did sell stuff (which we don’t) an Airsoft replica SUSAT is most likely rather unsuitable for your purposes. Despite the fact that Airsoft plastic or pot-metal copies of the SUSAT might may like the real deal (and granted they are cheaper), they are most likely not suitable for the task you require them for. It is likely that you would realise that they are about as useful strapping a used toilet roll to the top of a rifle the second they see active service and either fall off or spectactuarly implode.
As you may have seen if you’re a regular reader I have been around less and less. I thought I’d add a quick post to say that I’m now formally taking a back seat with regards to the direct running and administration of the website. I could list the reasons for these changes but I don’t post my own personal info online… well you get the gist. One simple reason is I don’t have the time and it is thus time for a few changes to keep the site going in the manner that it should. 
With regards the forums and review sections, there’s a team of moderators and staff that are very adept at keeping things running smoothly, who have been doing so without my assistance for some time now. A huge thank you should go to them for their efforts to date and in the future.
I believe that given the present circumstances and the needs of the site that the best course of action is to open editorial news control to that of a trusted few; R22Master is the first of these new editors. R22Master isn’t me, so the news will obviously read differently as someone else will be creating the text.
Email and site contact systems are being rerouted so that they can be managed by staff members who are willing to help in that area.
I’ll provide technical and general advice to staff members when it’s occasionally needed but because of my own commitments elsewhere (as I’ve said) it’s not practical for me to have any form of active administration role.
Well I’ve not been around much of late as you might have spotted or guessed, but sadly that’s unavoidable at the moment. There have been a couple of mild incidents in the forums but those have been dealt with by the moderating team in my abscence. To help cater more for the forums themselves I’m raising R22Master’s level to that of administrator in the forums.
In other news, as I don’t have the time right now to add images I’ll just rattle through as much stuff as I can. You’ll have to forgive me as I’m going to quickly trawl through my inbox to get as much stuff as I can online before I have to head back to work:
AEX is proud to be the Official US Distributor of Airsoft Guide DVD’s. This DVD is packed with helpful information for all levels of experience. If you ever wanted to know how to fix or upgrade your own AEG’s or wonder how to solve simple problems, this DVD covers almost all areas. Also, you can check out the Airsoft Abuse section with some unbelievable things they do to airsoft guns! Mickey, (AirsoftExtreme)
They have also updated with quite a few new products. Included in this are the: Star L85 AFV, Classic Army M15 Special Forces Crane Stock, GP T6 Flash light, King Arms Troy M4 Flash hider and the AN/PEQII battery case.
Following the official release of Marui MP7A1 AEG last month, a number of manufacturers have started vast R&D investments on the related accessories. PDI is the very first to launch the following MP7A1 essential performance upgrade parts: A brand new 6.01mm and 6.05mm precision barrel dedicated to the new weapon. Wanna increase the performance of your MP7A1? Here is your chance. (RedWolf Airsoft)
There’s more to add but I’ll see what I can about adding more in depth news later this week.
I can’t guarantee how fast the news updates will be posted for the moment (commitments elsewhere mean I have limited free time again). If you’re waiting an email reply and I’ve not got back to you yet, sorry I’ll try to reply as soon as I can. It’s nice to see the site being so heavily used at the moment, and to see all the great feedback from everyone. Should my news updates become sparse from there’s still plenty of fresh content to be found on the site:
Submissions to the links area and reviews system are checked before publication by the moderating/staff team to prevent abuse of the system so there may be a delay in their appearance.
I’ve just been reminded that the 29th of January is Chinese New Year. This post is a little pre-emptive, but given that China is a good few hours ahead of us it is New Year there already! I believe the correct words at this time are Kung Hei Fat Choi!
For those that don’t know how Chinese New Year is named:
January 29, 2006 is the first day of the Chinese new year.
There are three ways to name a Chinese year:
1. By an animal (like a mscot).
This year is known as the Year of the Dog.
There are 12 animal names; so by this system, year names are re-cycled every 12 years.
2. By its Formal Name (Stem-Branch).
The new year is the year of bingxu.
In the ‘Stem-Branch’ system, the years are named in 60-year cycles, and the Name of the Year is repeated every 60 years.
2006 is the 7th year in the current 60-year cycle.
3. It is Year 4703 by the Chinese calendar.[A few Chinese astrological/zodiac websites believe this year should be considered as Year 4704 for zodiac calculations.] (chinapage.com)
