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    Love that dog. Grenade is nice too.
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    I was doing an Akbar joke. I think it was funny. However. Haha, the camera on your phone could be better at macro shots. You're a terrible person.
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    Looks 'shopped. I don't buy it. It's a trap.
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    Played my first game with it the other day. It went extremely well, I am still getting used to it to be honest but it is astonishingly good fun. Zero trigger lag, 5 round bursts are put down range in a single "quack" noise. It's awesome. It had no mechanical issues all day and generated quite a lot of interest. I have put some grip tape on the fire selector and put a LiPo cell monitor in the chamber area so that the status LEDs are visible when the bolt is open. Next thing is to buy some heavier BBs and do some experimenting.
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    I used to re-fill the little bottles of gas you used to get with gas guns back in the day. If you fill it as far as it will go then put it in the freezer for a while you can get more in.
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    It would take about ten minutes. There is a fill hole in the bottom of the buffer tube, all you'd need to do is screw in an adapter (best case) or drill and tap it for an adapter (worst case). Job done. If you don't already have an HPA rig then the redline one is good and has a tournament lock to ease people's minds about potential cheating.
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    Exactly. I'm sure you know this Gigueand but for anyone who doesn't: Heavier BBs have a number of advantages: They are more stable in flight. They are less sensitive to hop adjustments (and therefore) they are easier to set perfectly. Although they start slower (for a given energy) they slow down slower and therefore retain more energy at typical ranges. They penetrate light scrub (leaves and such) better. However Depending on your barrel length and set up they will allow you to get more joules from heavier bbs. This effect is noticeable even with an AEG but is magnified with
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    Thanks buddy. Running out of gas is not an issue, I am a SCUBA diver and have a couple of 12l cylinders that I keep filled, there is a SCUBA compressor where I work too. I've got a fill station in the post. Given that I have no interest in max efficiency then operating at a higher pressure should allow me to have shorter dwell times which is something I am interested in. .25s are the heaviest I can use because nobody makes tracer that is heavier and I love my tracer. There are some white .4s about, I have seen them in the sniper forum. The problem is that in the UK a typical sit
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    Update OK, so earlier when I got 290 out of the rig with .25s on stock settings? Those settings are junk (for my configuration). I have begun tuning the MAR and I have got a basic reliable setup now. Here's what I have, the way the fusion engine works is that the electronics control two solenoids which are gas valves controlled by magnetic actuators. The valves are fired in sequence, that sequence is (if you are using it in "open bolt mode" which I am for now): 1, DN: Nozzle goes back and pauses to allow bb to feed up in front of the nozzle. 2, DR: Nozzle is released and
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    I don't know (or if I'm brutally honest - care) if anyone will find this useful but I like to visualise information so I put PolarStar's 120psi (8 Bar) predicted FPS outputs per barrel length into a spreadsheet and made a graph. That is moderately useful but not brilliant. What I did was to plot the trend lines for each colour of nozzle, get the function of those lines and then calculate the fps at 5mm barrel length intervals for each nozzle. Please remember that these are extrapolated from a best fit line from 3 points of data which means if they are accurate it is by ac
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    Excellent link and than you for posting it. I had read that while I was researching whether to drop the money on a P* and it was a contributing factor. As I work on the rifle I will be posting back my progress and referring to that thread. It'll be fun on a bun Fun²
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    IT'S MY *fruitcage* TEA, GET YOUR OWN! Ahem, sorry. Yes it is, it is half a litre of tea. The correct amount of tea. If the following things happen: I get it working. I go to the "South" meet up. You go to the "South" meet up. The site the "South" meet up happens at allows P*s. You may try it out for a game to see if it suits you. Anyway, on with my last post of the evening and it must begin with a heartfelt thank you to Arnie for doing some upgrade to the forum software at some point in the past because there is now a feature that I have never noticed befo
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    Air system The power for the P* gearbox comes from the power harnessed in the form of HPA, 206 bar might not sound a lot but a truck tyre typically has about 6 or 7 Bar in it and the overpressure during a blowout has been known to kill. A SCUBA cylinder like mine has the equivalent stored energy of 2 hand grenades and this little paintball tank has about 75,000 joules of stored energy. That energy is stored in a tank. This is mine: Putting 206 Bar through the P* solenoids would result in them exploding so you need to regulate the pressure down. The system has a maximum of 8
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    Review The P* arrived yesterday and today since I am still waiting for the DIN to 1/8 QD adapter I ordered so I can fill my cylinder myself (more on that later) I went down to my local friendly SCUBA shop and they filled it for me, there is no guarantee that a given dive centre will be able to do it but there is a good chance. If you are in North Kent then Nemes diving and watersports academy at Holborough lakes definitely can, while you are there, why not learn how to SCUBA dive? Tell them Ginge sent you. Now that I have a full cylinder I can begin my exploration of the P*. S
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    That looks good, it is the TSI version which has lovely externals and somewhat hit and miss internals. I'm not even sure it is a V3 box in there. My P* arrived today, I am a little disappointed that it arrived with the blue nozzle and not a green one as specified. I can't speak to the shop since they are closed tomorrow. I can test fit it and I will do so tomorrow, I won't be able to shoot since the air fill adapter I have ordered to charge my cylinder from a SCUBA tank has also not arrived (different seller).
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    That's not too bad then.
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    I would always use the 6-round mode on this; it is more "shotgunny" - 5 shots before a reload is also more "shotgunny" than 10. I wouldn't use the term "spam" but in a target rich fast moving game you can certainly get through a lot of shots. I find that when using playing I will either get though part of a mag and die or blast through every round I have and have to get the rubber knife out, there doesn't seem to be any middle ground. I have seen videos of people only getting through 2 or 3 shells worth of shots, 20 or 30 shots on a tank of gas which doesn't seem like a lot to me - they
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    I am setting out to modify my King Arms Micro Galil (MAR) to have a PolarStar Fusion Engine V3 gearbox replacement. The reason I am documenting this is that I have found a lot of info on the internet but not too much on Arnie's. What that means is that a lot of the info out there is about how they relate to playing in America and some of the Scandinavian countries but not much about using them in the UK. So, instead of red nozzle and 30RPS full auto 400fps "CQB" builds and guides on how to get more power out of a setup by using power creep to your advantage when chronoing (which I con
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    These pistol grip conversions from G+P and Angry Gun are just begging to be turned into an external HPA rigged gun. If the hose isn't an issue to the player (and it isn't for me) then it really is the best way to power a primary gas gun for skirmishing. I will concede that for looks, wall hangers and (to a certain degree) backups it isn't ideal. I shouldn't think it'll be too long before someone does it, I have a real love affair with shotguns and like a true love affair I am always being let down by them. I have had every type of shotgun out there with the exception of the Marui and
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    I've been reading about some of the races that they have here. An hour of laps in a muddy field, running up stairs and jumping over hurdles and such. It's all a bit too competitive for me, I don't really like that sort of thing. I have entered a 100Km Audax in March there are timed cut-offs at the check points but beyond that I don't really want to compete against anyone. Next year I will compete against the me from this year.
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    Former murder basement. I have moved since then. Originally to be closer to work (I am 1km now) but now that is a pain because a 10k commute each way on a bike was keeping me fit. I love the CX style of bike, I don't know if it was just the right time for me but I had never heard of them. I was a died-in-the-wool MTB rider and I felt shame the day I bought a road bike but it was that or an early death. The bike is steel and rides just like an early steel MTB only with dropped bars. It's like riding around on nostalgia. Of course, because I just see it as a drop barred old school
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    Well my older stuff, I don't have pictures. I got my first mountain bike in the late 80s so there might be some blurry polaroids somewhere but out of the dozens there are a few I remember with fondness. I had a Trek 870, very nice bike. Then a Saracen Sahara Elite, built like a tank. Then a Kona Roast, my first Al bike which I upgraded with QR20 triple crown forks and Hope brakes and a 24" rear wheel with a massive tyre. But this thread needs pictures. Old DMR First road bike, hopeless brakes but it was OK, a Halfords special cycle-to-work Carrera Vanquish
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    The only 2 I have are a Spydercard and a Gunting. Very fond of both.
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    No Gunting? Not a fan?
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    Chinese ebay. You can pick them up for about 10 large.
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