P38 has working slide and trigger/hammer. Does not have a removable magazine
Only luger remaining is a cap gun - no working toggle action
What would you be after, for the P-38?
Anyone use XT-60 connectors on their gear?
Free to good homeâŚ
Didnât check the details when I placed a Fleabay re-order for XT-30s and ended up with 20 pairs of the larger XTs. 
No good to me so if anybody wants them, DM me and weâll work something out.
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Too large for blasters, but Iâm sure anyone in the RC Hobby should find a use for these 
Only way to buy these things is in bulk, especially when you see the price shops are asking for a single plug 
Tennant provided some update photos, of the rental down the coast.
Iâve asked her to water the garden, and between that and the (small amounts) of rain, the garden is coming along wellâŚ
Might take 4-5 months to grow out, coming out of the hot summer growth season, but the plants are pretty hardyâŚ
Some nice bird attracting plants , in there as wellâŚ
Im sure you remember, how shitty it looked, beforeâŚ
Ok, reminder shotâŚ
Now, just gotta do the 12 entry tiles , out the front, that are cracked and looseâŚ
And, paint the small section of the new fence, brownâŚ
The new section is black, the rest is faded olive/brown.
I reckon rattlecan, would be the easiest, for a small section of fencingâŚpaint and primer mix⌠as long as its blended, it would look better than brown /adjacent black fencing.
But, then again,maybe im just too fussy⌠
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Well Iâve been sick for a few days, not one to waste time off I got stuck into this build which Iâve just finished.
Itâs a combination of parts I had, though I had to buy the gen9 receiver, pistol grip, and outer barrel adaptor.
Already had a spare MK Tactical H92, which I bought for a JG but it didnât fit.
All other parts I had laying around spare.
Inside the H92 gearbox is 12:1 short stroked 3 teeth. M110, T238 1.7 optical, brass head and nozzle, SHS piston and head, 80% posted stainless cylinder. Backed by a nice high torque motor.
Itâs good for 320fps, and 25rps. I did try it with an m120 originally, but 350fps was a bit hot as I already have enough blasters that and higher, so dropped back to m110, this way it is acceptable for most fields, and should help keeps some accuracy which I am yet to really test but so far seems decent.
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Nice build⌠donât see too many Gen 9 based screamers around much anymore, good on ya. 
Dug this old dunger out for the grandson to use in the backyard todayâŚ
Spent a bit of time getting all the creaks out of it (call it my OCD) and fitted a new connector for a decent lipo. Weak, but 140FPS is enough for him.
Prepping it for a nice paint job tomorrow because I believe even a shitter has a right to look stylish. 
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Cheers man.
I have one other gen9, with h92 box also⌠actually it was my first blaster!
Though there is nothing of my original gen9 left. It went through hell. I even replaced the receiver as the original broke on the field. It went through many forms and mods. A lot of lessons learnt and experiences had. But still rocks on. You never get over your first love I guess.
It was great to build another H92 gen9, it was alot of fun. And very nostalgic.
Totally agree with @Friendly_Fire
Awesome job on taking a classic frame and making it perform in a very realistic and reliable manner.
Too many people get caught up in the âkeeping up with the Jonesâsâ nonsense and wreck their classic blasters.
The ultimate performance has always been taking a virtually standard product and making just a few technical improvements to achieve a desired outcomeâŚâŚâŚ not just blindly going full retard and building something that is honestly a pig of a blaster 
That is a great point @Friendly_Fire and @DocBob
Sometimes, it is very cool to have a classic that works still!
I actually love getting a classic, older blaster up to modern performance and reliability, and sometimes its nice to just get one working, a bit better than it was just so it doesnât end in the bin. It is kind a of hot rodder mentality. And it is always an interesting journey. I get bored just fixing and upgrading V2 gearboxes. I can almost do them in my sleep. They offer and experience that is nearly always forgettable!
Recently did a couple of gen8s for a mate, one was a taccytoys âfull metalâ gen8, metal everything⌠except the gearbox and receiver which was nylon gen8. The motor was burnt out, the wiring was melted, and I thought it was from a short. Nope. It also didnât look like it had that many rounds done. Well⌠you know how the metal spur gears donât fit the gen8 without modification? Taccy toys didnât either, slapped them in. I couldnât turn the spur by hand! This is how it was from factory⌠so bad. Amazing it worked at all and didnât just stall!
So I did the mods to make it work, shimmed, new motor, spring oring etc. Now works well. 300fps, even on a shitty 7.4v it works fine now. Amazing what can be done with the right work!
The other one was a bit of a rarity, polycarb gearbox, with a nice nylon threaded receiver. It was a joy as the guy just wanted it to work properly, while it was âworkingâ it was doing a hilarious 40fps when I got it. Now its around 270fps thanks to an oring, oringed nozzle and a J11 spring. It cost only a few quid in parts, and now it works, and actually could go for a long time as is, and it is similar to a new blaster now. Which I reckon is very cool, considering itâs a rarity it was nice to try and keep it as stock as possible, but still have it perform decently.
Now onto the big issue for older blasters. Would it have been worth it to have a shop tech do it? probably not, for the hourly rate shops charge on top of parts, it would have been cheaper to just buy a new gen8. And that is quite often how blasters get left. I have ended up with quite a few âit is dead and not worth fixingâ blasters, and turned them into working blasters. The other catch is this same category of blasters is not worth selling as you will get stuff all for it.
I have 7 or 8 blasters that I got for next to or nothing, because they didnât work and the previous owner gave them away. Got them working, and working well, and now canât bring myself to sell them as they are nice collectors pieces. All of them would be quite viable on a field, but I will never use them because they are working, and are getting rarer by the day 
Bingo
The buzz in this hobby for me is the fettling. I go out of my way to find old unusual blasters that are either broken or have the performance characterstics of a 90 year old with a prostate problem and no Viagra. I remember BigMuthaDrums telling me how during a game at Donnybrook he pinned everyone in their respawn for most of the game with his old M14 EBR⌠super accurate at 320FPS with that pimped out Gen 8 box and outranged most of his opponentâs loadouts that were much flashier and way more exxie.
Seems to me we had a lot more choice of platform back in the early days too. A lot of forgotten blasters were unusual and pretty cool⌠the full sized Halo MA5C, the old ABS Tavor 21, the F2000 bullpup, etc.
Nothing better than having people laugh at your old ABS dinosaur because it looks so cheap compared to their full metal M4s with all the tactical accessories. The laughing usually stops when you put a few through the chrono and youâre showing figures up around 320FPS. 
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Too true. My best performing blaster for range and accuracy is an ABS A1 Steyr with a metal geared gen 8 gearbox. Consistently running 310FPS. Just wish it had a semi setting
Fried my JM AK74U yesterday. Gels werenât feeding. Turned it over to test and had smoke come out of mag well. PST has welded together so canât get battery out. Figure that the wire to mag contacts had come loose and shorted on something. Motor runs fine
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That was the idea with the old Gen8 test pig.
Box standard on the outside with everything untouched and factory stock, but had that 430+ FPS gearbox inside that sounded definitely not stock standard
Like everything else in the modern throw away society, where technology keeps evolving and things keep getting more and more complicated.
This might be great for extra features and gadgets that make life easier for us to enjoy, but also can overcomplicate things to a point where they are fragile, unreliable and way too technical to fix or repairâŚâŚ so they just get thrown away and a new product is purchased instead.
This is why I love my old classic cars and old classic blastersâŚâŚ. simple, easy to work on, strong, long lasting and reliable
As @RokSolid mentioned, there were some very quirky little details to be found when building and experimenting with different blasters, but this is exactly what makes the hobby so interesting, to find these little challenges and create ways to overcome them 
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Just finished grandsonâs present for 4th birthday - refurbished an old MP5 noisemaker
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JM MP5 with the Gen 8 box?
Nope. Blast from the early 90âs. Battery operated noise maker. Pull trigger and it makes bang bang noises in semi and full auto. Going to give his older sister hell
Ah, I see⌠for what that is, it doesnât look half bad
Pre Gen8 ABS Kids toy?
In saying that, it doesnât look shiny enough to be ABS?
Looking really cool
Yep. ABS replica noisemakers. Sold a collapsible stock MP5, an M4 and a Steyr at the arms fair. All from the same era. Each had a different style of noise. Some of the add on sights and torches were almost the same as early Gen 8 accessories