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Early Christmas
prezzies! Well
here we are, it’s the day before Christmas Eve 2001 (the day before the
day before Christmas :o) ), and a new parcel has arrived on the doorstep.
Having received much hype and after hearing a lot of good information about
the Large Tactical Handguard (LTH) from Guarder, we thought it was
about time that we reviewed one of these babies.
First a little bit of
history, why fit an alternative grip? Well with the standard TM foregrips
on the MP5 series you’re restricted to a 700mAh battery, which are good
for about 4-8 200 round clips. Obviously a larger battery brings huge advantages,
such as only needing one battery for a day’s skirmish, and not having to
change batteries mid firefight. Now to your average skirmisher this brings
several choices:
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stick
with it, and get used to the low capacity and changing batteries -
fit
a stock to hide a larger battery in -
learn
the advantages of ‘gaffer tape’ “young padawan..” -
buy
a larger replacement foregrip
Now I for one have been
found wandering a skirmish site with a 8.4V 2000mAh NiCad taped to the
underside of the standard grip on an MC51, but there are better alternatives,
and much as I love ‘gaffer tape’ and it’s myriad of uses, the sticky goo it
leaves on everything it’s stuck to is slightly more than annoying to clean off.
This is where the Large
Tactical Handguard (LTH) from Guarder comes in. Not only is it functional
and tidy (carefully and tidily boxed to boot), but it has some added bonuses
too.
The TLH literally
oozes quality from the outset as the box and the included instructions are
carefully printed both in Chinese and English, which is a welcome change
to most Airsoft imports. (Guarder
also have a decent website in English)
The included instructions recommend that if fitted to an MC51 variant you
use a 9.6v 1100-1700mAh ‘twin-type’ battery
Assembly The There These It’s |
Note the threaded fitted metal bolt holes on the bottom and the side of
the grip above
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So
what about this grip in the box? The
grip is made of much denser material than the LTH itself, and has
the Guarder logo on one side, and the Guarder web and street
address on the other. These marks are deep enough to read, but shallow enough
as not to detract from the replica (to be fair they had to put their logo
on somewhere).
The grip
fits to a rail by sliding it on, and tightening up the threaded bolt with
the knob at the bottom of the vertical grip. This pushes the slide on the
top of the grip onto the rail, and simply stops it sliding off by friction
– a stupidly simple but effective design.
In this
image I’ve unthreaded the internal bolt so you can see it. At the bottom
of the bolt just above the knob is a rubber O-ring, this provides some friction
simply to keep the grip secure, and to stop it from undoing itself in the
field (never a good thing).
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Conclusion
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Wednesday, May 9, 2001 9:37 AM copyright 2001 ArniesAirsoft