Classic Army M16A2 feeding issue

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Greetings party people :tada: :confetti_ball::balloon:

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My brother has a classic army M16a2 he bought from tactical edge in emerald a while back and it never worked, gels failed to feed. They have since closed down the store or it was only a pop up store or something and my brother left it too long to take it back to the store as he was out there for work and lives 4-5 hours away

He brought it down at Xmas time and I had a look at it, tried several different gels of different hardness’s and it just wouldn’t feed any

When looking up the mag well from underneath and pulling the trigger a few times to watch where the nozzle was going, it didn’t look like the nozzle was pulling back far enough to allow the gels to feed, (part of the nozzle keeps blocking the gels from feeding I assume)

A mate from work who used to work for M4A1 said that it was a common issue and there was a universal t-piece that fixed the issue

He can’t remember which one as he hasn’t worked at m4a1 for a few years and after looking through the m4a1 website I can’t see one that says universal t-piece

Does anyone have experience with these or this issue and if so can anyone provide some assistance or recommend a fix?

Cheers

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They are almost a wells, but not. Their gearbox is pretty similar but is a bit different, but they do share some parts like nozzle, cylinder head, cylinder.
If you have it open, does the sector gear have a “delay” chip?
I use quotes as it is as much a sector delay as it is a tappet travel extender of sorts.

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Ausgel, $1.50.
They do increase the distance the tappet travels slightly, might not have one installed from the factory. The nozzle will move but not quite enough without it.

That said, if changing to SHS gears you do not need the chip in my experience with wells, but classic army are slightly different despite being very similar.

Would also be worth checking the mag feeds gels, and the power is getting to the mag terminals, and the polarity of the mag terminals is the right way (yes I have seen factory blasters wired mag terminals backwards!)