I would normally use real steel components when it comes to my AEG accessories, but I wound up getting this foregrip at a price that was so cheap ($8.00 shipped) that I couldn’t say no and not try it. Considering the real steel (Zenitco) version of the PK-6 runs around $60, and the repro’s from most sources around $20 – $30, it wasn’t a bad deal at all either. Continue reading “Asura Dynamics PK-6 Foregrip Review”
My first experience with shimming is tied indelibly to my first time taking apart a gearbox years ago. Like a lot of first-timers, I unknowingly unleashed a storm of flying parts when I foolishly tried to open the gearbox halves without tripping the anti-reversal latch first or attempting to hold the spring down. And like a lot of first-timers I had little clue what the little round shims (then incorrectly presumed by me as “washers”) were for. So once I figured out which gear went where, and how to squeeze the spring into the one half, I slapped the whole apparatus together and upon hooking up a battery was dismayed to find my gun would not turn over at all. Continue reading “Shimming: Some Tips and Tricks”