Thompson V2 review..(or, your wanted on the Al Capone..!)

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Gangsta Hanke- Panky at @Friendly_Fire 's place today…

Pull apart of shell and gearbox, and upgrade time…

Lots of little idiosyncraticies pulling the tommy apart, and getting it back together.

A few takeaways…
_ you need to gently lever the shells apart with a flat screwdriver. Gently.

  • There are 2 screws ON TOP of the blaster, that hold the upper reciever onto the lower.

  • Auto / safe toggle levers, need to be screwed back on tightly, for function to work.
    ( i had some trigger issues, of a slipping trigger / non firing, that were fixed by tightening the single/auto and safe /fire selectors on tightly)

  • the stock Oring was pathetically loose. Like XXXXXL supersized. i never fired it stock, but wouldnt have been surprised if it didnt work at all…

Having said all that, a 110 spring, and new oring was all that was required.
Gearbox had plenty of grease, and didnt need shimming.

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Good performance gains, a M100 should sit around 300 fps.

I wonder what gbu have done to theirs, to get a claimed 270fps…(cough cough, lied…)

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I can definitely see why M4s are so popular. :laughing:

Such an easy teardown compared to these Thommos… and don’t even get me started on how easy it is to pull the gearbox on a Steyr AUG. :rofl:

But like most things, once you’ve done it once or twice, easy peasy. BME will be able to get his Thommos apart in 3.3 nanoseconds soon. :+1:

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Great work guys, and great results to match!
Sounds like a bit of a fiddly job, so would be praying to see some improvements after getting elbows deep in such a lengthy task :+1:

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sounds like words of encouragement :grimacing::joy:

did you have to shim the original Hanke Thompson when you upgraded it?

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No…first hanke was good too…

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Yeah JG augs is four screws and out comes the gearbox. Spoilt.
Sounds like a fun operation, not much parts at least to get it chooching. Nice.

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LH AUGs are no screws and it’s out. :laughing:

Flip off the rubber butt cap, take out the spring clip retained plate, undo two harness clips and it’s sliding out the back like shit out of a goose. :rofl:

Absolute joy… shame it’s an acrylic gearbox shell though. :man_shrugging:

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anyone with the ihobby Thompson experience double feeds on single fire? was using strawberry milkshakes and armour tech yellows, both firing two gels on single fire mode

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Nope.
No probs from me…

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weird, the strawberries were fresh brewed last night for 4 hours and strained well and stored in an airtight container for approximately 7 hours before use…

gels the issue?

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That shouldn’t be the case, by the sounds of it…

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hmm, buggers me then. waw consistently firing two gels every time on single fire

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Might be something with tappet plate. Gummed up or weak return spring. :person_shrugging:

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good luck getting it fixed under warranty from tactoys :joy::confused::roll_eyes:

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Oh, right. Oh well join the BME and FF club.

Just roll round FF’s place and get him to do it :laughing:

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nah I’m just Gunna have to get around to learning to do it myself.

actually need to dissemble the young fellas 1911 springer n clean the internals because it keeps jamming for some reason

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Check your tappet return spring, maybe try a slightly stronger one. Also check that the tappet plate has free movement and not binding.

A few years back someone came up with a fix for double feeding issues which involved using a drill bit to put a small detent into the t piece at the top directly above the feed tube. Use a bit the same diameter as the feed tube and create a detent a millimeter or so into the plastic.

It seemed to work for some blasters but not all. It stops the fed gel from shifting sideways in the t piece and creating room for another one.

I’ve also had a bit of success stopping double feeding by glueing an insert into the t piece feed tube to reduce the amount of available space.

Common problem with the smaller gels we’re getting these days. Often I’ll use only LDT Heavy Milkies in a blaster because of their larger developed size, usually solves it.

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I’m gonna need to start charging admission…

Maybe set up a café and CQB arena in the backyard. :laughing:

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Take the leap. Photos as you undo things so you can reference. Also to post here if you get stuck and everyone will help :+1:

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It’s the only way to learn, for sure. :+1:

And there’s a few on here that have had these Thompsons apart very recently.

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