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Army Armament isn’t that a rehashed Wells the first 1911 GBB to hit the market? Which was a pile of shite, some were ok, but spotty.

Army Armament, there is a reason only one retailer stocks them in Australia… don’t see anyone jumping up saying they are great, you’ve been asking for days now.

Like this one… I’m not 100% sure but I read something about it in the past.

ATOMIC ARMOURY Green Gas Blow Back GBB Colt 1911 Gel Blaster Pistol Toy Gun (Full Metal) – Big Boss Tactical

If it’s a decent 1911 you are after hopefully some others will suggest some of theirs that have been good. I don’t really like 1911’s but that’s just personal preference on platform. I’ve shot them and they are just very agricultural, there are much better pistols around in the CZ flavour I much prefer. :+1:

Some more modern flavours of fat frames and some 3rd party redoes are really good. Kimbers I like but they are like a Ferrari, crash in to a wheelie bin and it’s a right off. :laughing:

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Mum and Dad told me while I was talking to them on the phone.
My reply was “I don’t even know who the Pope is” :hushed:

All I hear them whinging about now is that it’s apparently all over television/radio/media and they are getting sick of hearing about it! :joy:

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Good point!
Definitely answers the question without saying anything really!

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Reminds me of ROH days working with the Greeks and Italians. Aye boy you needa to go seea tha POP.

I’m like the what, bah ya know tha POP :laughing: Fk they were funny, laugh a minute :+1:

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The right guy answered you, matey… :+1:

I don’t dabble much with GBB, more on the AEG side.

I was going to suggest that @RokSolid is your point of contact on that one… he da man. :wink:

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I think I’m the only one. I have an CEH Atomic Armory 1911 and it is the most powerful and most accurate pistol I have, and it gets used. The guys that ran Wounded Heroes swore by them and used them, to the point that the paint finish had worn off. It is different to the Wells 1911 that M4a1 released…

Atomic Armory is the CEH brand and not the same as Army Armament, which is an established airsoft brand. Parts are available for Army Armament

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This. You’d be hard pressed to find a wells 1911 that still works, let alone works reliably… likely because they were green gas pistols that had CO2 mags in a hot climate… and build quality was pretty ordinary.

A mate has a AA with green gas and it still goes fine.

CEH do have a reputation of pretty average after sales support, but the things I’ve bought I had no complaints… keep in mind most people whinging don’t look after there blasters!

And @Wombat has it right, army armament is not atomic armoury.

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I couldn’t remember which was which but something was mentioned about them in the past :+1:

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Got an ex demo APS AK74SU, removed blowback and stuck an ldt riser style hopup hidden in a PBS suppressor. Went well at a game, but the urge to tinker is already kicking in!

Also need to find a set of ak74 mags, the 7.62x39 mags look badass but aren’t accurate for the blaster… Always something to buy and do!

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I saw those somewhere recently available :thinking: that’s no help as buggered if I can remember where… :roll_eyes:

:bulb:Ah it was my only local store SafariZoomer Tactical | Shop

Or m416 have black ones.

They work really well in the APS :+1:

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Thought I’d get the spares sorted for the Tec-9 while I’ve got a chance

Only didn’t get the hop up because it would not be compatible with the led silencer that comes with the version BME and myself are importing

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Had a gut full of OVONIC’s pillowcases, so know 100% from plenty of research that these might not be cheap, but are the best available in their class, so the “buy now” button was smashed and putting other things on hold for the time being. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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After the past few days efforts battling with the OVONIC batteries, just want to stop wasting money on crap and spend the bit extra from the outset to get something that will actually work and hopefully last longer than 1 - 3 uses! :roll_eyes:

Have been trying to get hold of some SMC Battery Packs that are the top of the range, but are EXTREMELY difficult and expensive to find online to ship to Australia, but if these CHNL have proven to way outperform even my faithful TURNIGY batteries over multiple different tests, including this one, then I’m more than happy to give them a run. :+1:

My main concern is how much power they can put out without turning into pillows! :hushed:

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Hope they do the job for you.

Trying to think from what I’ve found and know which is bugger all, I find it strange how quickly those Ovonics puffed.

Even if the battery is 20C low discharge rate for example. The battery will only out put at that rate, it can’t be sucked out of it no matter what system you have. You will just get less burst/punch power. The LVC was a thought but check has that on the ESC at a generous voltage of 3.4V.

All I got is that they are a bad batch of batteries and might be dipping in voltage too quick and the ESC can’t restrict them quick enough, because the batteries are poop.

Unless something else is at play which I highly doubt. Maybe extra drag due to the lube marine grease thing could push the amperage up, but even then the battery will only give out amperage that it’s rated and won’t go higher. It physically can’t.

Then your older Turnigys work ok.

It’s definately something with those batteries. There’s nothing else left.

I found the same thing few years ago was looking at some quality batteries like those Zees and found the exorbetant price to get them to me. Hmm don’t quite need them my Turnigies are still working fine for the mo.

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You are 100% right mate, as these were rated at a lowly 2200mAh 35C 4S, which is why I chose them… for less output and shorter runtime than the stock OOTB supplied 2500mAh 30C 3S battery that barely even raises a sweat, along with ALL the other batteries that I run through it at the same pace!

The two 2S OVONIC’S that I “Doctored” into a single 4S, each with much larger 5500mAh 100C outputs don’t have any issues whatsoever, and either do the smaller old TURNING 2200-3000mAh 3S 30-40C batteries.

You are correct in saying that the electrical system (motor/ESC) cannot “pull” more than the batteries can provide, they are just a “tap” that opens up, and the batteries are just like a bucket of water and the power leads are drain hoses that allows as much water to flow out of the bucket as much as it can “flow” out of that “tap” once it is cranked open.

This is were the “C” ratings are meant to determine the size of the drain “hoses” that come out of the bucket (battery)…the larger the “C” rating, the larger the “hose” and the more water available to flow through the “tap”.

But from day one, there was absolutely ZERO difference in speed/performance between the 30-40C rated stock or TURNING batteries, which is an immediate telltale sign that the “C” ratings are bullshit on those apparently 100C batteries that should have “flowed” twice the amount of power to the electrical systems!

But that’s what that RC Battery Expert has proven time and time again throughout his testing of all the batteries on the market… there’s NO laws regarding whatever claims cheap Chinese battery makers put on their packaging and are all trying to outdo each other with rediculous mAh and C ratings to try and get an edge in the cutthroat LiPo battery market with their claims. :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

Unfortunately even the most trusted battery manufacturers such as Turnigy and others have also reduced the quality of their products just to try and stay competitive in the same market now flooded with much cheaper and higher claimed output batteries taking the market share. :pensive:

Hence why I don’t believe shite and rely purely on research from actual electronics experts testing such products, and obviously shouldn’t have believed all of those reviews from online channels who received OVONIC batteries for free to review. :roll_eyes:

If you have old TURNIGY batteries, look after them, as they are much higher quality than ANYTHING being produced these days. :disappointed_relieved:

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That makes sence and sort of what I’m thinking and leaning towards. Most of my Turnigy batteries are 10+ years old, no need to replace them as they keep jooging along doing what they should, only failures I have is the operator when he wrecks stuff and I have a bit of a plane or car crash :laughing:

When those Nano techs came out I noticed 1 or two of those didn’t balance out well and one swelled a bit after a grandpa run on a grasshopper not high power at all. So that got incenerated but still have some other Nano Techs that have a lot of use on them that are perfect. Only bought them as were same price as the standard blue 20-30c ones for cars and they were on special and were 30c with a 50c burst rating. Which is minutely noticeable for what I do with them.

Yet my 15yo 4s blue Turnigy 20C 4000Mah’s that I run on my Kyosho USA 1 with 2300kv brushless factory system wheelies everywhere like mad. And reduces throttle when the ESC gets near LVC level after about 30 mins dozens of times. Reduces then will cut right off at whatever you set it at 3.3v or 3v. Bought the Kyosho back in covid time, took nearly a year to get delivered :roll_eyes: Great hoon truck, not a thing has gone wrong with it besides the operator wiping the back tailgate out from wheelstanding everywhere :laughing:

The first thing that hit the bin was those checkered batteries that came with some blasters. Printed it’s 2200Mah or some crap like that yet you can only discharge and get back in 800Mah :laughing: Yea right no wonder it goes flat after a few mags instead of near all day depending on your setup.

I bought some of the airsoft turnigys this year but have not got around to trying them out yet as they were on special. Hmm might have to have a looky. On special, might be full of pixie dust.

The one and only thing I can think with those Ovonics, is higher discharge rate on the smaller Mah they don’t have much gas left in the tank to limp home on a high powered system and drop quick. Too quick. It must be. Hence the 5500Mah ones do ok as they have a bigger gas tank. Or do what the yankees do, I know what’s wrong wid it, aint got no gas. :laughing: :+1:

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Yeah these two 10+ year old TURNIGY Blue pack and Nano batteries are soldiering along just fine under the same conditions with plenty of running time, no low voltage sag and have plenty of grunt left to get back to shore once the LVC alarm starts sounding,

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whereas the OVONICS just go dead in the water, not even giving the LVC alarm time to sound!

Had to drag out the Kayak yesterday when one of them left the boat dead in the water.

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My GE MK16 GBBR showed up today, but late to shoot it today so will tomorrow.

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However looking it over for any damage or faults In transit I spotted this…

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If I’m not mistaken that should be the other way around, just to play it safe I emailed iHobby to get the go ahead to pull the barrel off and flip it, assuming it’s symmetrical vertically.

Once that’s sorted I’ll do a proper thread on this unit seeing as there doesn’t appear to be one yet.

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Great QC, on an expensive item…
You think they’d give the expensive ones a once over, before sending them out…

Gross error check / leaky mag check…
I reckon they would catch and prevent a few problems…

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I got an extra mag with it and I’m not sure which one but one did have a slight leak at the release valve but I just tightened it like 1/8 turn and it stopped,

Oddly one mag has more of a texture to it than the other, but not sure which one was stock now.

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