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  1. It's just you. I think you're so short that it the monitor can't see you, and it thinks no one is actually there and that a hacker must be using your account, so it signs you out. Thank you Matt for bringing to my attention the important need for a special "midget" setting for users.

  2. Okay, there will be delay on the pictures, since my computer got majorly *fruitcaged* by a virus and I'm going to Duluth for the weekend. I'll say though since I now have one, a 9.6v battery will NOT fit without modification to the wires. There is room in the stock for one, except you'll notice when your sliding the battery in that when it has about 1.5" left it starts pulling the wires in with it and it won't fit. The problem isn't that it's gripping the wire (well, it was originally but I put scotch tape on the wires and battery so it slides smoothly) but is that it pushes against the fuse unit. Mine fit originally, but that was because I pushed hard enough to pop the wire out of the fuse and allowed it to be moved back without disturbing the connector. There is no way to avoid this without modding.

     

    So, what do you do?

     

    Extend the wires. Yes, it's that simple, but you need to be able to solder. I added about 2" of wire to both the black and red wires and now the battery will fit. The problem now is that I hooked up the fuse wrong and it melted the whole unit in half, rendering the gun unusable. If you don't make the mistake I did, you should now have a perfectly functioning gun that can hold a 9.6v in the stock.

     

    Well, now I need to fix my problem. Pics to come later to help you know what it is, but if anyone has a plastic fuse unit (20A 250/ fuse) they can sell me, let me know.

     

    ohhh TMI! -Too Much Information

    What are you, gay?

  3. Mmk, a bit of an update. Today the black wire pulled out of the tamiya connector and the red wire pulled out of the fuse unit. I'm sure all you TM-humpers (seki, corkbulb) are probably dancing and singing now because you feel secure in your TM, but frankly TM's wiring isn't great either. G&Gs is better out of the box, it just wasn't secured in the connector very well. Since resoldering it, it now fires noticeably quicker too. So, yeah, the G&G is still better in every aspect. Nyah nyah!

     

    Oh, and I'll have a few pics of it up tomorrow I took with my gf's camera. No, dookieboy, I will not show you the rest of the pics on there ;)

  4. If that didn't completely avoid the point of these reviews, I would have. To get to the point, I didn't buy these with intent to use them heavily. 90% of the reason was to collect, and 10% was to review for you guys. The point of these was to report how the gun is OUT OF THE BOX. This means no modifications other than re-lubing if it's bone dry or cleaning the barrel. Shimming is not included. If I wanted to make the gun ready for a skirmish, I would have replaced half the gearbox.

  5. Oh, poo :(

     

    I popped a MAG 50 rounder into the MP7 today and lined it up to fire, and....

     

    "WHIRPOP!"

     

    ...nothing hits the target. The bbs weren't feeding. I suspected that it had developed the mag catch problem described in the other MP7 review. Upon opening it up...yep, I was right. The Galaxy MP7 mags work fine, but my 10 MAG ones are now useless. I might try to make a new one or mod the old one, but I'm pretty p.o'ed right now. Knock the rating from a 9.5 to a 7.5. I'll PM pablo about editing the original post. As of now, the BE is probably the best for a skirmish weapon. Externals aren't too much lower than Galaxy, and performance comes pretty close.

     

    EDIT: The A&K M249 is a total sack of *beep*. I was firing it a bit more today (M100, IB 9.6v 1400mah, 900-950 RPM on the better battery) and it totally ceased up. I opened it up, and the shimming was so bad that it ground pieces out of the gearbox shell and some apparently got caught between the gears and other parts and jammed the whole thing up. I'm really looking for a camera now so I can get a pic of this, because this is totally unexcusable for any gun. On a good note, it ground off some of the blatant deformities in the gears. Seriously, don't buy one of these. I don't care how badly you want an M249, the CA is more than worth the extra cost.

  6. Umm...everywhere in America. ASGI, Evike, airsplat, AEX, and pretty much everywhere else carrying G&G guns carries them all at reduced prices now. Sorry for everyone else, though, since this seems to only be on prices in the US.

  7. As to why someone would pay 220 for a TM MP7? Well the simple answer to that is because they can afford it and it really is better smile.gif Some people may think that paying 120 for "a selector switch that moves smoothly and clicks in every position, solid vert grip, rubberised buttstock, trades (if you're non-US), silencer adaptor and TM's legenday build quality" is crazy and they're perfectly entitled to that opinion, but frankly if you can afford it..... why the hell not. Afterall you'd be getting a "perfect" product rather than one that's cheaper but not quite as good.

     

    Well, it's been pointed out that the TM MP7 is a reach from perfect, so I won't need to restate that. The G.7 actually has a really solid front grip, and the BE does too (though not quite as much). The silencer adaptor is understandable, although I personally don't care since I don't plan on attaching a silencer. The selector is also understandable, although I found the BEs to be quite good. The well's wasn't bad, it's just that the switch is a bit larger than it should be. Frankly, I've handled the TM and Galaxy MP7 and, besides trades, there's really not a noticeable difference. There's a good chance the TM will have dremel scars in the side, too. I really don't see a logical reason why you would pay 3 times more for something not even your primary.

  8. You guys might have different experiences, but was I the only one who thought this is hardly a support weapon? I have my review up in my big series of em if you need more detail, but mine fires incredibly slow, has a weak boxmag that can't keep up with >1000RPM, has terrible compression so that big spring goes to waste, is shimmed so poorly that it will probably explode within 15K rounds, and it had metal shavings in the barrel.

  9. You're welcome :D. I stuck an M100 in the gun today in hopes of bringing it down to a safer velocity. To my surprise, it chronoed at 365! This is probably because of the super long tightbore and awesome cylinder set. You UK guys will definitely need an M90 or weaker to use yours.

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