(Forgive the horrible writing, It's 9:35 and I've not slept in a good day or two :p I'll come back and edit this to look a bit cleaner soon.)
Well, After an ungodly long Hiatus from Airsoft it looks like I've caught the bug again.
Just recently traded off a Paintball gun for a KWA M4 and decided to dig out all my old guns and gear.
There she was... The money pit itself.
09 Classic Army M15A4 (Back when they just got the new gearbox's and did a solid 380 fps out of the box with all the fancy workin doodads like the charging handle) With a swapped front end in favor of SPR Mk12 Mod 0 furniture. A 6.03 Prometheus TB, Firefly bucking, Guarder hop-up and an Ajax STS System.
SPR on the top, New KWA in the center and my old CA CQB Seal on the bottom.
So, With even more searching I started feeling out and finding the rest of the bits.
Guarder infinite torque up kit (SP150... Yaaaay)
Systema Magnum Motor
Infected Airsoft Mosfet
King Arms 8mm Gearbox
My apologies for not snapping any pictures of this process, But no access to a decent camera and me being in a bit of a giddy rush. I forgot :/
So for the past week or so I've been fiddling around slowly preparing the gearbox for this monster, Slowly shimming to perfection and breaking in the gears.
Running the Magnum on an almost dead 8.4v until it was broken in (Along with breaking an old pinion driver trying to remove the Magnums pinion... Yay.)
Then, Thing's slowly neared completion up to the struggle of this morning. Forcing an SP150 into the gearbox after a good greasing of gears and other bits. Wishing I had more hands as I had to struggle to keep the spring guide from flying out and fit the CA M15 trigger spring back inside the gearbox (I swear CA... I wish you designed that slightly differently.)
Alas! The gearbox was complete and together. Ready to go out and test fire after such a long wait.
"Vree-Vruuuuh... Vree-Vruh..." Look's like the battery might need some charging.
-Sometime later-
Vree-Vruuuuh... Vree-Vruh..." Still the same problem... Just half turning the gear's slowly half the time until it fires.
I tore the stock and grip off thinking maybe I had the shimming too tight, Maybe the motor was adjusted too high.
Playing around pulling the trigger from different angles I noticed the motor would only spin half what was needed at certain angles and if I sloooowly sloooowly pulled the trigger it would make its full rotation and fire the spring perfectly.
Then it struck me... I forgot to clean and redo my contacts while the gearbox was torn down.
Welp. Bit of a let down but it looks like I'll be diving back into the gearbox sometime soon to give my contacts a cleaning and see if they need replacing.
Hopefully I'll be updating this thread soon with progress and eventually statistics on how the rifle performs.
Stay tuned!
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