The team flex help thread!

[Finius]

I'm alright with this thread, however there's a few things I'd like people to consider.

Airsoft is a diverse sport with diverse equipment, requirements and suchlike. Often, there is no simple answer and indeed, most answers are simply opinion or experience based rather than fact - this often supports healthy debate and discussion which is the lifeblood of our community.

As such, I feel it is better to voice questions in individual threads, or even come up with half a dozen on a certain subject and then make a thread, I honestly feel a thread like this only serves to stifle potential debate.

I also feel it would be more constructive to revive the old quick questions thread and pin it, rather than making a thread just for one person.

As I say, I'm not going to close this thread or anything, but just some food for thought!

 

[team flex]

Another question from the chief noob, if I were to use either.28 or

.30 gram BBs which midcap would be the best in terms of high rof shooting for a polarstar. And also which BBs would you recommend between the two different weights

finius, that would be a really good idea IMO if you pinned the quick questions and re-lit that thread. It would be helpful to everyone I reckon.

Also, does anyone know the answer to my question in terms of high ROF midcaps and midcaps that can feed .30 gram bbs. Also what is the difference in accuracy between .28 and .30 and is it worth it?

 

[PT247]

a midcap makes zero difference to ROF, if you are planning on going full auto then why not hicap?
The weight of BB has zero to do with ROF either, it will only influence FPS and accuracy.

The only way you can effect rate of fire on a polarstar is by changing the piston or the valves

 

[M_P]

I think it's more of an issue of the mags keeping up with a high rate of fire than actually affecting it.

 

[PT247]

no different from an AEG then, if you run midcaps in an AEG it'll be fine, if you run 10 hicaps each round then it'll be lacking

 

[team flex]

yeah what I meant was the weight of the bbs stopping the midcap from pushing them up. bingo works airsoft did a comparison with .20 and i think .30 and the .3 didn't come out nearly as fast. Also heard misfeeding to be a big problem with high rof but it wouldn't for me because I would be using burst a lot.

 

[PT247]

never heard of a midcap not being able to push the BBs up before, if you suffer it let me know and with what mag brand

 

[Lozart]

never heard of a midcap not being able to push the BBs up before, if you suffer it let me know and with what mag brand

I bought some "action" M4 midcaps and they just would not feed in my M4. Mind you they were only about £6 each so I guess you do get what you pay for.

 

[team flex]

here, this was the video i was talking about.

 

[PT247]

wow. Ty TF. That is a bit of a surprise!

I run 0.25s and not had an issue before ever. Guess it is def worth considering for mag choice. I run midcaps on my RM4 sometimes with the 0.25s, I use Magpul PTS midcaps and never had any feed issues, other mags will use different quality springs tho,

If you use good quality mags you'll probably be ok, you can stretch the springs a little but I'd not stretch them too much for fear of causing other feed issues as the spring will twist as it is stretched sometimes.

 

[team flex]

yep thanks for the info

 

[Lozart]

You could also look into changing the existing springs for the ones from PTW mags. they're a bit stiffer than most and can be had from RSOV for not a lot of money.

 

[evilfree]

Ive been using springs from RSOV for my sten/mp40 mags. Works well!

 

[team flex]

i may be missing something but what is RSOV?

 

[Lozart]

i may be missing something but what is RSOV?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=RSOV

 

[Russe11]

My sten mid caps with stock spring would have sprayed .25 bb's far enough to hit the camera. I think the mag he was using in that video is just a useless mag.

 

[team flex]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=RSOV

ok, now I feel lazy . I thought it stood for something XD thanks

 

[Lozart]

ok, now I feel lazy . I thought it stood for something XD thanks

Probably does but that's what we're talking about