fuddruckersJun 30, 2006 5:28am
Well after working on spences m15 I thought i should share with some of the newer generation upgraders why its so important to decompress the spring in your gear box before u crack it, sorry the photos are bad quality.
Important Tech Tip by you favorite Jew :)
nightblade117Jun 30, 2006 5:31am
whoa, good advice
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yemclJun 30, 2006 5:34am
:shock: omg my eyes, blurry vision, BLIND MAN, BLIND MAN!!!! :x Lol, get a better camera dude! This is important, so we need to see more clearly! Not a cell phone! Lol, I can't afford a nice cameral either, sucks being a broke college student don't it? :lol:
fuddruckersJun 30, 2006 5:35am
lol sorry Chris, that was my cammera! not my phone, lol.
AirsoftAdvantageRepJul 10, 2006 6:22pm
Wait, are you saying, you opened up a gearbox when the spring is compressed? Whenever I do it with a spring compressed, the sector gear usually releases the piston... or sometimes everything just stays the way it is when its opened.
GuestJul 10, 2006 6:32pm
yeah, uh, i just thought of that, why did you open it up with a compressed spring? your supposed to do the pull back the gear, and pull up on the anti reversal latch so it decompresses itself....haha.
fuddruckersJul 10, 2006 7:27pm
I KNOW BETTER THAN THAT Spence did it lol, now hes a nice sytema gear box, lol, but ya he also was running an aluminum piston head with an m120 for a long time so i figuere the repeted stress of that, plus the weak spots in the design of the CA gear box on top of the spring slamming forward on the front of the gear box in already stressed gear box was just to much, me and my dad were running the specs of that monkey box through auto cad and were both agree that CA and TM could make their boxs so much stronger if they changed them a little BTW my dad is an engineer lol.
Chase42Jul 11, 2006 12:27am
was he running a aluminum cylinder head too, or the stock one?
fuddruckersJul 11, 2006 5:55am
yup i totally agree but i saw it before he tried to take it apart and it wasnt broken, then he broke it. But ya i agrtee that fatigue is a major part of that. Just had it happen to my m4.
Mr.ReyesJul 11, 2006 6:00am
forcing the gearbox to press against the front of the reciever helps move that force towards the reciever rather than the gearbox. it'll save it for a couple more beatings.
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fuddruckersJul 11, 2006 6:03am
hmm good idea thanks :D one of these days im just go borrowo an cnc mill and make my own gear box lol