Hanke M97 Shotgun Gel Blaster Review

I started trying to pull mine apart to upgrade the spring a few months ago but couldn’t get it to split apart, I was worried I was going to break it and didn’t have my pry tools on me to open it up properly without breaking it so I gave up. felt like it it was glued almost

whats the best way to get it apart?

Remove the grip and pump handle, take out all the screws, take off the barrel cap and start pulling the two halves apart from the barrel end. You definitely don’t need to force it, comes apart very easily. There’s a link to LG’s teardown at the bottom of the OP. :point_up_2:

Sounds like you may have missed a screw somewhere if yours was being difficult.

Sounds like the barrel may not be seated properly in the collar or maybe you’ve got some flashing around it. :man_shrugging:

Mine handles LDT Heavy Milkies no problem and if anything they’re softer than pinks. Had a chat with a few peeps about why these seem to run so well at high FPS with softer gels… might be the larger cylinder and a less violent air delivery, maybe the way the nozzle seats in the collar… dunno, but whatever it is, I ain’t complaining.

Finally something I can use up my stockpile of heavy milkies in :joy: Sometimes the current trend of making gels a little smaller means they don’t work so well in the older blasters. I know that Duck’s Nutz gels are too small for a lot of my blasters.

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Watch the low guido video above.

He goes through a slow, detailed breakdown.
Especially, dont forget to remove the upper barrel shroud.

There are 2 screws in there…it wont come apart if they are still there…

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Nice upgrades! Definitely will be trying these out once I get mine working again.
I was also told by a guy at my local shop that I could use a 130 spring but seems that was a bit too strong and it has broken some of the internal parts now.

Everything is almost fixed but if anyone has any idea where I could get a new tappet from that would be legendary.
I’ve looked everywhere and can’t even seem to find a decent photo of it anywhere to get one 3d printed.

Yeah, an M130 is way too heavy for the plastic internals on these. I’d say M110 maximum, which should get it up around 300FPS with an alloy inner barrel.

Your best bet for spare parts would be a used one cheap on FB Marketplace… failing that, a new one’s your only option… they’re affordable enough at around $120 :person_shrugging:

No aftermarket support for any of the internal compnents with these ones.

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There was one on Facebook marketplace the other day for $40 but it’s in Toowoomba

X-force talked me into getting an m130 spring for mine, never installed it, from my research they were saying an m120 max but going with friendly’s advice I will be putting an m100 in mine when I finally decide to pull mine apart, one day

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They’re not that hard of a pull apart…

Good starter.

Take photos etc… you’ll figure it out.

Apart is easy… back together and working…a bit longer…!

A mate of mine ran an M140 spring in one, but not for long. Nearly 400FPS but every time he racked it he said he felt like it was going to explode. :rofl:

Thing is, if an M110 gives you 300+FPS and accuracy as well, there’s not much point going bigger when you know the plastic internals are gonna go all Chernobyl on you. :person_shrugging:

I’d love to duplicate the internals in steel… wouldn’t be hard if I had a Bridgeport milling machine and a lathe… ah well, maybe one day. :wink:

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They’ve dropped the price to $30 now

Good deal at that price, for sure. :+1:

Very underated blasters. :thinking:

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Great Salt Guns :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye::wink:

Mini Mouse and Goofy(bloody extra characters!)

Here goes nothing

Edit: threw an m100 in it… didn’t do something right and it’s jarred up first pump

Think I know what it was but cbf’d pulling it back apart tonight. I think I put the fake shell eject port the wrong way up and it’s catching on something. Should be an easy fix but too many screws to undo again lol

Dammit

hahaha … love the photo of the shit bin. Those prices are good for both buyer and seller i reackon. I need to clear out my collection … some good money to be made there. They live in a cupboard covered by a sheet. Never got to the display wall i always dreamed off.

All I really need now is my Cyma M4 sporter, my Uzi and one Glock!

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After fixing my mistake I threw it on the chrono. I was getting around 220fps with the stock spring, after m100 it’s hitting around 280-293 with a few around 250 and occasional random piss weak.

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You could go up to M110 fairly safely…

Not sure why it would be reading the occasional low, is it multi-feeding?

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I’m not sure if it’s double feeding, it might be. Not sure where to put the O ring it’s said you can install to help prevent double n triple feeding. But good to know I can bump it up to an m110, might do it and see if I can squeeze it over 300fps, o think the highest I got was about 297

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Unaltered it will always occasionally feed more than one gel by design… it’s a shottie. :person_shrugging:

Personally, the aim with mine was to have a single gel per trigger pull and call it a damn fine sniper rifle. I did acheive that by putting a short piece of 7.3mm ID inner barrel into the t piece collar to act as a choke… worked a treat. Single shot every time.

We did the same to Beemer’s M97 but didn’t quite get the same one-shot repeatability… go figure.

It also helps to keep the unit close to horizontal when you pump it too… if you point it downwards it increases your chances of a double or even a triple feed and therefore lower FPS. Gravity doing it’s thing.

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