You really have my trigger finger itching from seeing and reading about all of the fun you are having fine tuning this particular blaster!
I just wish I could have the same opportunity to be able to purchase this exact same model and have a play modifying it myself!
Only queried the barrel size because of as you would already have the knowledge/experience to know that the difference between magazine/feed lip sizing and barrel sizing would make a world of difference in getting them to both match up and work together correctly
As for cylinder porting, I can also appreciate the difference between manual springers and AEG’s when it comes to barrel lengths and diameters.
AEG’s top out at 400-450mm barrels on 100% cylinders due to poor quality air sealing throughout the whole system, whereas positive mechanical sealing in manual springer blasters can push the envelope much further in relation to Volume Efficiency of the gearbox.
I was only commenting that the mag feed lips will regulate the size of gels that you must use to feed cleanly and efficiently, so should only be a last final step to match your inner barrel size to suit
No doubt you will be taking a microscope to the magazine/feed lips/gel feed surfaces to eliminate any rough edges to ensure that the fragile gels can feed smoothly throughout the whole system without any damage whatsoever
My gel ball sorter arrived yesterday from wat. Today i designed and 3d printed some adapters for the 3 lower outlets to attach some 25mm tubing and also a funnel attachment for the top. I tried it out with the coke bottles on the bottom which got me to thinking of the tubes and funnel idea. I just tried it all out with 3 bunnings buckets on the bottom and other than the gels bouncing around in the buckets it worked extremely well. The flexible tubing also allows me to use smaller containers if i want or need too.
Also regarding the sorter unit itself, it works extremely well. I had some gladiators (2 hr grow in hot water and also 1hr 15min grow in hot water) and with the sorter, around 75% of the 2hr gels went through the larger size (larger than 7.35mm) with the rest going through the middle size (7.15 - 7.35mm) and with only a few through the smallest size of under 7.15mm. The 1hr 15min gels had about even amount of medium sizing and large sizing with a handful or so of the smaller size gels. Having such a variation in sizing would not help with accuracy or consistancy so being able to sort them more accurately cant hurt.
One of the BF M203s kindly donated by our very generous forum members (you know who you are ) got the treatment yesterday.
In the search for something round to shove up the barrel to blank it off with style, and having no squash balls to hand, I cast my eye over the still standing Christmas tree. A round gold bauble caught my eye, so a bit of trimming, sanding and glueing later… boom shanka!
I even got lucky with the base colour… grey, which is what I was going to spray it anyway. Screw holes filled, priming grip relocated and front picatinny bracket added it looks about on a par with the JM SCAR it fits onto. I love these old dinosaurs.
So if you’re like me and like to improvise, I’ll bet you spend 100% of your time eyeballing EVERYTHING and ANYTHING to see if it can be used as a greeble on your builds.
Just bought a second hand wells mb05 and I am quite disappointed with the accuracy and the distance it goes. I was considering converting it to gas or something along the lines of that. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions to help me make it better thanks
I went down the gas conversion route along with another member on the old forum at the time (cant remember their name). While it did get fps up really high, consistancy was really bad due to being too fast for the gels. Ended up converting it back to spring with the weaker spring installed to slow it down. Accuracy ended up reasonable for what it is. Best result was to just get a remington msr and leave that stock but add a hopup. 250 is fps but way better accuracy and more mag capacity.
Thanks for the info but I don’t have much cash right now I spent it on the sniper and I want to get the absolute best out of this thing because it took me a while to get it
That’s the problem with snipers in gel, they just don’t have the performance to match their style, unlike in Airsoft, thou with heavier harder gels these days they might be a little bit better with the higher fps.
I’d like to see how a hardened larger gel, maybe like the 11mm ones, would fair for things like rifles.
Being bigger they’d have more mass and would need a stronger output to shoot but theoretically could have better long range performance if hardened. Would Introduce a new class of player and a new set of rules for these blasters but would broaden playstyles and engagements.
After numerous spring changes and voodoo modifications on my Senyu M24 I opted for the stock spring.
Sits around 280FPS and much better accuracy than 350FPS plus. We’re never going to achieve accurate long range shots with gel snipers anyway, my goal was to work with lower power and greater accuracy, more in keeping with a sniper rifle’s intended function and more desirable than humungous power that sprays your shots all over the hemisphere.
I’ve spent hours fiddling with hopups, barrel stabilisation, gels, and magazine tweaks to stop from damaging/distorting the gels on my SR-40 in the last week.
The reality is, sniper rifles in gel are nightmare hard mode. They have no better distance or accuracy potential over any aeg. They are far more difficult and time consuming to dial in a hopup, basically having to go through a 11round magazine then adjust and repeat, as gels just aren’t consistent enough to go from a couple of shots.
Given the amount of shots you get, its worth sorting and getting gels measured to suit, and use the rest in an aeg. I currently have enough accuracy to hit a person sized target at 30m consistently, but a begginer with an aeg and 250fps is gonna destroy me. The only advantage is they are quiet, so you’ll have to use that, as it is all the gel sniper rifles has over everything else.
Still the best gel sniper is the hanke m97 shotgun, those loaded with one ball and a hopup are very good, and can reload the next gel far quicker.
Plenty of upgrades available online.
Overseas/ebay/ online suppliers will ship to Australia, as long as you contact the seller and ask them to remove any mention of the word “Airsoft” from any of their packaging and paperwork, correctly stating that these are Gelblaster repair items
More of a proof of concept build than anything else but I’m kinda liking it… now that I’m okay with the function and aesthetics I’ll give it a bit more refinement.
Love it. I have front wired an kublai PDW9 once, i was able to run the wires out past the mag terminals, and through the barrel/barrel adaptor (if you have ever seen the square cutout on barrel adaptors this is what it is there for)
Actually the right handguard and a nunchuck lipo could pair really well on an m4. Surprisingly it made wiring the gearbox very easy, as there is only two wires going to the motor, and the rest just goes out where mag wires do, very tidy inside the box. The downside being you would need some bullet connectors for disassembly, or just leave heaps of wire so you can leave the upper receiver attached for internal works.
Still tinkering with parts and fitment, decided I’ll go with a buffer tube for battery storage ATM until I could be arsed rewiring a gearbox.
Turns out a J9 gearbox won’t fit cause of the angle behind the grip is slightly higher so will have to get another standard v2 sometime, got one of those split FB shells but the molding is off so it’s got a bit of a bulge on one of the pins and needs some time with a sharp blade, again when I can be arsed.
Full metal CYMA lower receiver and gearbox with 480 high torque motor, nylon upper receiver, m100 spring, 8" alloy fishbone, alloy inner and outer barrel, alloy buffer tube, metal stanag, alloy suppressor, knock off Eotech red dot (functions), Vector folding sights, MOE stubby vert grip, torch.
315FPS with Ultra Elites, the mock suppressor houses a temporary barrel extension to correct piss poor VE and gain a bit of accuracy. FPS drops about 10 with the suppressor off but gels are uncontrollable even with a hopup. It’s a nuggety bitch at nearly 3kgs. a tad lighter in short trim with the suppressor off but shite controllability.
Tomorrow it gets a full length 7.3 IB and incorporated suppressor hop up. Not bad for a parts bin special.
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I love these old dinosaurs.
