[Orange Wargame Striker 12 / Street Sweeper]

Love the "Rock Paper Scissors" to call the hit. Striker looks awesome in action. Thanks for sharing.

[Official Photography Thread II: Electric Boogaloo!]

Shame. I saw the Raptor at last year's Flying Legends (the best part was when she arrived and set all the car alarms off). Unfortunately this year I missed the P51 Berlin Express, who flew over from Texas, as her canopy exploded mid show on the Saturday. Unfortunately another P51 was forced to do an emergency landing in a field on Sunday right at the end of the show. The pilot got out fine and nobody was hurt so it's all good. Apparently they had more trouble getting it back to the airfield then getting it out of the field as no-one remembered to measure the gap between the traffic ligts

 

Edit: to stop the thread getting clogged with text here's a few shots I managed to get of local wildlife

Martin,

 

Photobucket hosting seems to be broken somehow. You may see your photos, no one else does. They only see a picture stating:

"Please update your account to enable 3rd party hosting. For important info, please go to www.photobucket.com/P500" My guess is they have figured they need to make money from people by charging you to link back to your own photos.

 

This seems to be appearing all over forums for anyone using any photobucket images (including yours and many other's sig photos).

[HTTPS is going to come in as default]

In simpler (ish) terms https means login credentials (username and password) should be encrypted when sent by you to the website. Where with an http website they are passed in plain text and can be easily intercepted / stolen.

[Help with posting images]

Glad it's working for you now even if it is a mystery how

[Help with posting images]

What extensions would "these extensions" be? A bit tricky for someone to diagnose your issue without your including a bit more information to help.

[Remove the 100 post limit on sales threads]

All depends. I signed up in May 2012 and got my 100th post a week or two ago. So in my case just shy of 3 years.

 

Some might say this is because I am not dedicated enough to the forum to post regularly. Personally I try to only post when I have something I hope will be a useful contribution rather than just posting to get my count up.

 

YMMV

[UK Spec KWA KMP9 Pictures]

Been reading through this thread as I picked up an ASG MP9 a while back. Since most of the activity here was back in 2012 I thought it may be useful to write about some new parts which have become available which may be of interest to more recent readers of this thread.

 

First up G&G have produced a bayonet to 14mm CCW adaptor to fit other silencers to the ASG/KSC/KWA MP9/MP9R without having to replace the original silencer mount. I wont post links to sites as so many in this thread are now 404. Please use your search engine of choice and vendors should become apparent....

 

G&G 14mm Negative Threaded Adapter for KWA KMP9 Series Airsoft GBB SMG's  

 

RA-Tech have produced a new NS2/S7 compatible hop unit which is available with a hop rubber and 6.01 barrel

 

RA-Tech ESD EVO II Hopup Set with Precision Inner Barrel for KWA MP9 Series Airsoft GBB SMG

 

Wii Tech have brought out an upgraded hardened steel disconnector which may fix one of the biggest (from later thread posts) failures.

 

Wii Tech CNC Hardened Steel Disconnector For KSC / KWA MP9 Airsoft GBB SMGs Part no 153

 

also

 

Wii Tech CNC Hardened Steel Sear For KSC / KWA MP9 Airsoft GBB SMGs Part no 151

 

I gather if you have a nozzle failure with an earlier model nozzle, before the redesign, and need to replace the nozzle due to failure a new KWA/KSC replacement will also need the new orange piston seal rather than the green seal you will have fitted with an older nozzle.

 

While checking out mine I noticed a lot of BB fragments / dust around the hop unit. On closer inspection the Feed Ramp Base (part 18) had been damaged on the feed ramp fingers/prongs. The tip of one had cracked off. Both had nicks and gouges on the leading edge, where the BB first impacts them when stripped from the mag by the nozzle, and had become quite sharp. They were chewing chunks out of BBs so looks like I need a new one. This part is steel already so may be worth keeping an eye on for damage if you see lots of tiny BB chips around the hop unit.

 

Lastly while my bolt had no signs of wear from the bolt stop I did see signs of similar wear in the rhs bolt guide channel. As the bolt guides (part 66) in the lower receiver are pressed / stamped steel sheet, as with the bolt stop, it isn't too surprising to see that sharp edges / burrs of the pressing affect the bolt in the same way. A spot of delicate needle file fettling has removed the burrs and will hopefully eliminate the bolt wear.

 

Hope this is useful.

[Tapatalk splash screen on mobile version of Arnies on Android]

An earlier version had a "Dont ask me again" option but would seem to have been removed either by tapatalk, the addon producer (one and the same?) or the IP Board people in a recent update. My frustration is with not being able to say "no thanks and don't ask again". I dont mind being asked once but I do mind everytime I open the site. I do understand it's uaefulness to those who want to try or use the app and to those who own/eun the site.

[Tapatalk splash screen on mobile version of Arnies on Android]

Is there a way to stop the Tapatalk splash screen appearing whenever I access Arnies from an Android web browser? I have nothing against Tapatalk per se. I don't use it and would like to have a way to permanently say no I dont want to install it. It seems to be a feature of the mobile version of the IP Board system across several sites including Arnies. Of preference I prefer not to have my web browsing hijacked by application installers please.

[Archived Section - Projects link on News page not working?]

Thanks very much.

[Archived Section - Projects link on News page not working?]

I have been pointed to a post in the old projects section of Arnies by Mobius Strip. It is an article he wrote on WA SVI Trigger tuning. He sent me a link which works ok. It is http://www.arniesairsoft.co.uk/projects/custom_svs/sv_trigger/triggerjob_svi_hi-cap.htm

 

Having been pointed at the article, which is excellent and very informative, I thought I would look further in to the archives for any other gems. However the link on the Arnie's News page in the Archived Sections to Projects, which has a link of http://arniesairsoft.co.uk/?filnavn=projects/projects.htm, doesn't seem to go anywhere other than back to the news page again.

 

 

I did try going to http://www.arniesairsoft.co.uk/projects/ but I get a 403 Forbidden

 

Tired it on mobile and desktop site versions.
 

Is it possible to get to the Arcive Projects?

 

Thanks Mike 8-{>

[Remove the 100 post limit on sales threads]

100 posts is easily achievable over the space of a few weeks without spamming. We all managed it...

 

Arnies is a community, with a sales section too, not primarily a sales forum.

 

To be honest, I'm glad there's a criteria, as it really does whittle down the impatient noobs, and actually encourages people to think before they post.

I only post where I can make a useful contribution to the community or where I have a question I can't find an answer to. I could post more but I feel I would be posting just for the sake of it and that rankles with me. I have no great urge to the sales forums although it would be interesting. I am just finding the qualifying conditions seem a little stiff for people in my situation trying to comply with the rules

[Remove the 100 post limit on sales threads]

I think I consider myself a noob still on here and I have been airsofting and on arnies for coming up to 2 years. As with someone else I am not rushing to up my post count but at this rate it is going to take me 4 years to qualify for the sales section. I am no spotty yoof I am a beardy old git.

 

While I can understand the desire to maintain the status quo does it not seem a little daft to have a restriction that can take 4 years for me or even 8 years for an earlier poster (4 years in and approx 50 posts gone) to qualify for. You can get a degree in that time!

 

With the restrictions limiting the qualifying forums and the traffic levels limiting opportunities to post legitimately wouldn't it be senaible to perhaps revisit the limit?

 

Without wishing to open a UKARA/VCRA 3 games in no less than 2 months type can of worms how about a number of posts / membership time combination. 20 posts and min 6 months say? It would show some dedication and commitment to the forums but not be easy and quick to do.

 

If you don't allow newer folks in, in a sensible time scale, the sales section may not have enough people qualifying for access for it to be sustainable.

[Froglube]

A GBB works by expanding liquid turning into gas, which is an endothermic reaction and thus cools the gun down.

Sorry to come to this somewhat after the event but just to try and avoid a misunderstanding propogating. There a few things not quite right with the above explanation of the reason why a GBB weapon cools when fired.

1 An expanding liquid does not turn in to a gas because it is expanding. A liquid turns in to a gas if enough energy is present to cause it to change state. For example heat a pan of water to make it boil and generate steam. Heat is applied to the water to change it's state in to steam. There is a pressure relationship as well, drop the pressure and you meed less energy to change state from liquid to gas. Liquids do expand when heated but it is the input of energy which causes both the expansion and the change of state from liquid to gas.

2 There is no reaction. For a reaction to take place you need two chemicals to react with each other. This may require the input of energy which would be endothermic, as you say, or the release of energy which would be exothermic. However you would also end up with one or more different chemicals to what you started with. If you have a mag full of propane and fire a shot you just release propane to the atmosphere you don't have something different after you pulled the trgger..

3 Despite what I said in 1 above while inputting heat to the system helps, a warm mag on a hot day will work better than a cold mag freshly filled on a cold day, it isnt what actually makes the GBB gas work. The drop in temperature does happen when you release a gas under pressure. This is because of the physics / thermodynamics of gasses and not the chemistry of a reaction. If you allow a gas under pressure to expand rapidly through a nozzle or small orifice then the temperature will drop thanks to the ideal gas law and is known as adiabatic expansion or cooling.

 

Apologies for the interruption I now return you to your normal service.

[Madbull RED Tracer BB`s .12g]

A bit more research shows that my caveat re UV lasers is equally applicable to UV LEDs so please be really careful.

• Dont look in to UV LEDs or any UV light source.
  
• Dont shine UV LEDs or any UV light sources on your skin.
  
• If you build them in to something make sure you, or anyone else using the something, wont be exposed to any UV leaking out of anywhere.
  

[Madbull RED Tracer BB`s .12g]

This is somewhat off topic but I don't really want to start a new thread asking this, does anyone know why normal green tracer BBs can't be lit up by laser? I've tried both red laser and green laser, shining directly at a bottle of BB, none of them light up, and I haven't got access to a blue laser I can't test that one out, but by process of elimination that seems to be the only thing left, anyone knows the science behind glow in the dark material?

 

I suspect the answer to your question is down to light frequency. I have recently been tinkering with some luminous powders / pigments from a US company called Glow Inc http://glowinc.com/ which I got years ago for something else but have found new purpose for making iron sights glow in the dark. These pigment powders use treated zinc sulphide phosphours which is best stimulated, like fluorescent paints, by ultra violet light. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_paint). I bought a cheapy UV pen torch from Maplins and also a couple of UV LEDs and some even cheaper Rolson LED torches which I swapped the white LEDs out for the UV ones. These stimulate the phosphor pigments a treat. I would be surprised if the various tracer BBs are using a different material to get their glow. What I suspect is happening is the following:

• White light from incandescent sources emit a broad spectrum of light frequencies which extend in to the IR and UV ends of the spectrum. Far enough to stimulate the pigments but not in huge amounts at the UV end.(Excepting Quartz Halogen Dichroic lamps which often come with UV filters over the front if they are to be used in displays or to light areas where people will be lit)
  
• White light from fluorescent lamps use mercury vapour to emit UV inside a tube lined with a white phosphour so there will be UV there too.
  
• Some White LEDs are actually UV LEDs with a white phosphor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode#White_light) so will give out UV.
  
• Flashguns give off a high intensity and broad frequency spectrum of light including in to the UV especially if unfiltered (http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/mhe1000/musphoto/flashphoto.htm)
  

UV is, very roughly, in the 100nm to 400nm wavelength range

Blue light is 450nm ish

Green light is 500nm ish

Red light is 700nm ish

Infra Red light is 1000nm to 1mm ish

(Ref http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Electromagnetic-Spectrum.png)

 

So the Red and Green lasers, which will be outputting a coherent beam of a specific frequency (it is probably on the safety label of the laser somewhere), are not putting out light in the right range to stimulate the pigments to get them to emit light.

 

You may well have more luck with a blue laser but don't be surprised if that doesn't work either. A CD player laser wont be any use as they are IR lasers if I remember right. They moved from IR to Blue lasers for optical disks because the much shorter wavelength of blue light meant you could read smaller pits in the disk surface and therefore store more data in the same space. I would imagine that a UV laser would be best for the job but this is with the very serious caveat that such a thing could be a sure fire way to damage eyes and skin it being invisible and coherent and powerful and concentrated and all!

 

The other thing to try might be to get surface mount UV LEDS (If they are available, I haven't looked) and replace the white LEDs on the hop or Magazine tracer devices with them. They may be more effective.

 

I have just tried my little UV torch and a similar sized white LED torch on some Blaster 0.25 and G&G 0.25 Tracer BBs I bought over the weekend. The UV torch is several orders of magnitude more effective than the white LED.

 

Hope this is useful.

 

Mike 8-{>