There was one of the OG M82A Barretts on the wall at M4A1 that I got all gooey over.
Not for sale though… absolute pieces of shit but what a display platform. 
Just a heads up too… Select lever issues aside, I ran a few gels through the chrono with the 552 to get a performance baseline.
It was only hitting around 220FPS. 
The spring’s pretty accessible, so if you’ve got an M95 or M100 spring lying around you can throw it in easily enough when you get it back. 
If you do head up to Nambour on the weekend, drop by with that SCAR H and I’ll have a look at it for you… I can run it back down to you next week sometime.
Up to you, matey.
A few tips for the JG V3 tinkerers.
Their mag terminal blocks are a PITFA, but the gearbox is otherwise nice to play with for anyone who is familiar with V3 stuff.
For longevity, I recommend a little radiusing and AOE pad. The rest of the gearbox is pretty decent. It is 50/50 whether the blaster comes with the black end bell motor (shit magnets) or the blue end bell (neo magnet) motor. The blue is an awesome motor, paired with 13:1 you will get a very snappy semi and 25rps, and it loves it.
Cast gears are decent for cast gears. Piston is decent though worth getting something you trust in there if you are in there, Piston heads and o-rings are awesome- don’t change!
The nozzle on the JG V3 is interesting. No rubber tip. The rubber is in the t-piece, kinda backwards, only really an issue if using softer gels, but you won’t be using cheap softies on these anyway. The are a wells spec base, so changing nozzle to one with an o-ring requires serious ingenuity, lathing down a wells nozzle is not ideal. Good lube and they seal ok anyway, just not perfect over time.
Gearboxes are cheap at Ausgel, so grab a spare in case. These aren’t something I would recommend pulling apart unless you have to, but if the gearbox did go the spare is a good option to radius and aoe pad.
As a note @Friendly_Fire
Some of the shorties shipped with a full cylinder… might be your issue? All the other JG v3 need a full cylinder, the 552 really needs a ported one and not all shipped with one… because medichina I guess.
Yeah, the brief was just to sort the ambi out, but if the box’s out maybe a little more work on it wouldn’t hurt. Like you said, not the easiest of blasters to tear down and not a lot of info online, even relevant to the airsoft JG 552s.
What exactly is it? A V3? Never worked on a V3 with a separate grip housed motor before.
Not sure what happened with this one, because the ambi gears can really only go on one way… but the levers were definitely not aligned to each other. It would not easily rotate into safety without a horrendous grinding feel and if you did get it into position safety was non-existent.
All screws were loose by quite a few turns too… must have been a Friday blaster. 
Selector plate works fine with the gearbox out, safety engages so it must be a case of misassembly of the ambi gears by Wong over in Beijing. 
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They are a V3, but the motor is a mid length mounted in the grip instead of a cage.
They are VERY similar to the airsoft JG sigs, so might pay to look for tips there.
The ambi is very typical of many ambi things and a bit grindy and janky on some but fine on others. The misalignment though is odd.
Spare boxes are reasonably priced at least
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Sorry mate I was just about to pass out when I seen this. I’ll see if I can swing it but not sure I’ll have room with all the kids in the back and a preggo partner up front 
, it’ll probably be a looky-Lou if I do get to the store, I don’t have a tonneau on my ute unfortunately or a box strapped/bolted on the back, definitely need to get something to make shopping etc easier for sure.
I’ll see how I go tho, thanks for the offer 
Also I DM’d you a question
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I’d ring up first, before you head up…
the stock is disappearing fast.
I’d hate for you to drive all that way, for an empty shelf…
Unless you were heading past anyway.
The shelves were pretty bare…it’d pay to ring up first to see what he still has…
Was heading to Mooloolaba so yeah it’s definitely not on the way but no too far a detour either. Will have to see how I go in any case as the kids havnt been for such a long drive before yet, one has but not since he was little and it was just him at that point, and they don’t get along so well squashed in the back next to a baby seat as it is on any trip lol, the age gap and size difference doesn’t help. Come to think of it they have been up to Maleny but there was only two at that stage and my daughter was still a baby at the time… I don’t get out much at least for long trips
But yeah I’ll have to see
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Is your TV on the blink mate?
Mate the TV’s just for background noise 
Doesn’t matter…
Arnie likes em…!!
OK…
I didnt think i’d be saying this , but…
Looks like the Sig Doesn’t need to be upgraded…!!
With the easily accessable spring change, i popped a M110 in, to see…
Yep…don’t really need that…!!
As per all 400 fps builds…this sprays gels all over the place…!!
Sideways, up…down… after 10m, all bets are off.!!
The standard spring ( outside the boxes) seems to be a M95.
M100 on top, M95 in the middle, Sig std spring on the bottom.
For this , i think i’ll try a M90, and see what it does.
With the long barrel, it will probably be just over 300 fps…
I’ll be interested to see how accurate it is, at that fps…
Just an observation, maybe it’s just me
But your m95 boxed spring looks like it’s on the piss mate
Any luck with modifying the J11 magazine to fit and function?
havent gotten there yet…
pulling the sig rattler apart, for a spring change…
Was doing some quick research, 3 years ago someone asked the same question for A/S about ak mags, apparently it’s not possible without 3d printing an adaptor
Maybe one of the forum’s resident 3D print guru’s might be able to edit the print file below to allow for 7-8mm gel, as well as add jm J11 mag capability
it’ll be a matter of " joining" two mags together.
using the top part of the Sig mag ( which fits properly into the magwell…
… cutting the top off…and then… trimming the top off another, similar mag ( JM ak47 mag)…
and joining the top of the sig mag, onto the base of the JM AK mag.
Of course, the electrics will have to be fiddled with, to work…
Franken mag…
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Sounds like something right up friendly’s alley lol
Definitely be an effort to achieve but the results would surely be worth it in the end
he’s done it plenty of times…
im trying to learn…frustration…!! but neccessary…!
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