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That is a bit of a kicker. Was the FIRST thing I worried about and I was quite relieved that mine showed no sign of leaking. As for "glue" I'd suggest using either a rad-weld for a car radiator or one of those car tyre puncture repairs. The dar-weld would be more controllable. You mix them up, pour them into the radiator and they seal as the temperature goes up. On the gas charger you'd have to mix a small amount up, pour it into the charger, put the valve back on, put a bit of gas in it and then heat it up in a bowl of very hot water. Thing is, a car radiator only works to

Well done.

Well, first thing to do is empty the gas into pistol mags. Then drop the gas charger into a bowl of water to see how it's leaking. I'm surprised people are saying the actual cannister is leaking. I would have thought only the top and bottom valves would be sources of leakage.

You mean you walked forward until you could actually hit the glasses? Seriously, interesting stuff. Must admit, I'm not keen to shoot my nice new V-Force mask in case it marks the fancy iridium colouring. So I shot it from thi inside.

The leaf springs are fine although you might want to have a look where they fit, up near the hammer, as SOON as you remove the spring housing. That way, if the leaf spring plate falls out (and it probably will) you'll know where the various prongs go. The pin that holds the spring housing in place is at the base of the grip, at the rear. You'll be able to push this out by hand, using a small screwdriver or allen key. You won't need a hammer to knock it out. It's not that tight a fit. READ AS WELL AS LOOKING AT PICS Note that you can check the function of the grip safety without th

Well... I've only played with a mates metal KJW P14.45 for a short while so I dunno if it has any quirks but I think, in all honesty, I'd prefer it to any HiCapa. At least the P14 looks like a combat weapon. The HiCapa looks too much like a race-gun for me. With hindsight I should have got a P14 instead of this but, at the time I bought it, nobody else had one so I thought I'd get it just to be "different". [edit] Don't want to sound too negative about the HFC HiCapa. It's a good gun and, as I say, it's removed any urge to buy a WA 1911 and then spend a fortune on metal bits

Dammit! You keep making me double post. Dunno. Not sure I'd recommend any HiCapa. They're something of a paradox. People who are real .45 lovers won't want it cos it's not a real gun. People who truly just want a practical skirmish gun would be better off with a G19. It's all about choice. I must admit, I reckon I'd probably choose to put something else in my holster for most skirmishes. That's not as damning as it sounds though. I mean, you can only ever shoot one rifle or one pistol but that doesn't stop us all buying sackfuls of guns, does it? It's a nice, cheap

S'funny, yet again I find myself forced to say that nothing I've yet seen comes close to my G19. To use the medium of phonetics to make my point... This HiCapa Kinda goes Blat (gun fires), Clack (slide hits rearward position), Shhhclunk (slide returns forward). My G19 just goes "BLAT!" and it's ready to shoot again.

Despite all the talk of CO2 usage, I've yet to actually see a CO2 mag available anywhere. Must admit, though, I haven't looked that hard. Thing is, the recoil wouldn't be improved by running it on CO2 as is. It's the return stroke that's slow. You'd need to fit a stronger spring and THEN run it on CO2 to make it cycle properly. Don't get me wrong. I reckon it's a decent gun. If somebody gave me a £500 full-metal WA Para I think I'd still prefer my G17. I figured I ought to have a .45 of some sort and I like metal guns. This fits the bill perfectly without costing a fortune.

Couldn't have been misaligned. The tab which sticks down from the bottom of the grip safety, and wedges behind the hammer spring housing, was too thick. With the grip safety tab pulled back hard up against the spring housing the gun would still shoot. After I filed some of the thickness off this tab I found that the grip safety worked. TBH, I found that it is still possible to pull through it though so I've also now filed a small amount off the top of the spring housing. All in all these mods mean that the grip safety is probably sitting about 1.5mm further back than it was an

mutter, mutter... *kicks heels. hangs head* th'q

So, giving too much detail and giving people something interesting to read now relegates a thread to somewhere that I won't get MY questions answered or create any discussion of the subject?

How'd this get here? I'd rather it was in the GD.

Incidentally, buying this HiCapa has satisfied my desire to own some kind of .45 without causing me to spend a fortune on a WA gun. I used to own a real Colt 1911 years ago and I found it a bit, I dunno, just wrong for me. You can't operate the slide release or mag release without adjusting your hold on the gun and you can't decock the hammer easily because of the grip safety. I also recall thinking that the guns proportions were kinda clumsy. It was too long and the slide was kinda narrow and spindly. I flogged it and bought a SIG P228 and never looked back. Must admit, I sti

It does? *wanders off to check* Whaddayaknow! Though it pains me to do so, I suppose I'd better +ve rep you for this info.

I'll take some pics of my slide later on to show you what I mean. You're saying that with a Marui HiCapa you can remove the spring guide, recail spring and guide-bush and the outer barel will then drop out? Given that this is supposed to be a copy of a Marui gun I can't see how this could be so different. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong? One thing: If a Marui HiCapa owner could scan the manual I'd appreciate it. This gun has absolutely no, nada, zero, zip instructions with it at all. Anyway, this isn't rearlly a review of the gun. I just wanted to let people know that

Got my HFC/WE/Armotech HiCapa last week. Got home last night and finally got around to looking at it. The box is a totally unbranded brown cardboard box which is kinda convenient for anybody who's considering flogging these for themselves. Anyway, Snowman said (quite rightly) that the grip safety wasn't working which did disappoint me slightly. I shot off a couple of mags with it. It DOES have a nice enough kick but the recoil spring is pretty soft. The slide wallops back pretty fast (on green) but the return cycle is slow enough that you can actually watch the slide move forward a

Just to mention that as well as the physical size of sig's, ANIMATED ones can slow things right down. I've seen animated sigs on here that take a couple of minutes to load all the frames.

Oh, the irony!

I'd show you pic's of my CA MP5 but the pic's wouldn't show anything odd. The gun still works fine but the grip's gone all shiny from where people have been holding it and the paint has worn away in a bunch of places. Internally, the gearbox is mostly fine although the piston teeth are all worn along the edges. I've been lending it out for a year, after using it for a year myself. Seriously, I bet it's had getting on for quarter of a million BBs through it and it's going fine.

Bah! Nothing reminds people who's in charge more than a bit of arbitrary banning. Anyway, besides that, Has Shao been told he's the new mod yet? Tell Arnie to get a move on. It's not like the bloody Oscars or something. The sooner he's told, the sooner he can start getting his head around what to do.

Slayer posted in the "Are sniper rifles legal?" thread today. Not that vanished then.

He's like robocop or something. Maybe more like robo-mod. We could call him that. It could be his new nickname. Oh, wait....

I was gonna get you a clue cos it's obvious that you haven't g.... Erm... I mean happy birthday for next week.