@shadow187 Heads up if you buy one… that particular X300 clone was very loose on pistol and picatinny rails. Like, really loose.
I had to make up a plastic 90° spacer and epoxy glue it to the vee in the base to make it a secure fit. But it is a copy of the quick release Surefire so easy to pop on and off. Which means holstering the pistol’s still relatively easy.
It’s been a day for electric pistols, that’s for sure
This might very well be one of a very few fully functioning SKD Beretta M90TWOs around these days. Satisfying to dust off the cobwebs and see it choochin’ again on 14.8v
New MOSFET with a spare put away, on the hunt for new gears to have as a backup set… or two. Pretty shiteful performance at 140ishFPS but not bad for five years old… go too heavy on that spring and the gears will strip.
mmm you’re in my wheelhouse now. APS the one you love to hate
That is low. Might be just a piston O ring. Hopefully it’s not cracked.
All standard V2 parts. What spring is it running?
The original APS V2 silveredge ran a too stiff equal spring that was too harsh on the gearbox and along with the casting problems led to a lot cracking the front of the gearbox off. But those were 300+ out the box.
I’d swap down to a 1.18 Ausgel unequal and still get 300+ and gentler on the gearbox. Plus don’t dry fire it.
Pop that puppy open and have a looksy.
I’m still running a several year old APS V2 silver edge today fyi.
Not sure how they’ve set the later Phantom Extremis up as I’ve never laid hands on that exact model, but afaik it has the better Silver edge box in it.
They are an as box that was poorly converted for gel.
Another good upgrade was fit the wells V2 head(I know shock horror) in as it gives 2mm extra travel to accommodate the bigger gel ball and the extra volume. Just had to bust the dremel out and elongate the location pins to get it in while you radiused the cylinder corners.
I removed mine as it annoyed me as it did to you and fiddly to get back together.
You only need the selector plate on the left side to keep the left side selector.
Split the gearbox and pull all of those exterior gear sets out and line the bin up and bye bye headache. Flathead screwdriver from memory to pry the exterior gears off.
Loose ambi of course but for me the headache was not worth it. Put a standard SHS non ambi selector in to work with the selector plate, and selector plate too if needed.
Yours looks exactly the same as mine. Where the cylinder sits, the cast box, those corners there are not radiused to lower the chance of cracking. Yours is not cracked I can see so that’s good.
The spring in mine was more like a M120/140 front kingswood coil spring. 1.4mm wire diameter.
Take photos as you go to reference on reassembly. You’ll be right tiger
This is a reference pic to radius the gearbox to reduce the chance of cracking. Out with the grinder yeehah
I was SCARless, before this…
it needed a minor fix.
Power wire connector, came adrift in the stock.
Easy job. to pop the stock off, and reconnect it.
Not a pin, just circular metal wire loop…careful not to deform it…