Liam Porter
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Having serious problems with my M4 AEG, making it unusable. I'll start from the beginning. Sorry for the long read.
I have an A&K M4 it came from XSite and was a Christmas present my step-dad got me, so is a good ¾ of a year old. The warranty has run out as it had a 6 month with it.
It's recently been re-wired to the front handguard (from rear crane stock), which I discovered it has no fuse in it.. need to get one me thinks..
Internally, it's completely stock and externally it has a few new parts, which are great and don't effect what I'm asking.
Took it to Urban Assault at RAF Upwood today, and instead of my day being ruined by the regular cheats, my gun did it instead.
Went to chrono it, the hop-up on minimum possible, BBs still fly way too high and is not even usable. So I use my step-dad's G&G for the first half of the day.
At lunch, I took my M4 apart to sort the hop-up out, no matter what I did, it stayed the same. Made sure the rubber wasn't folded or anything, made sure the nub was in correctly, tightened the gears. Still no difference, these are all stock parts.
I had a spare MadBull red rubber & nub, tried to fit those, the rubber seemed too long and the nub was also too long to fit, so I saved those for my sniper.
I now have a small piece of pen ink tube as a nub, which is slightly smaller, but harder, than the stock nub, and solved the BBs going too high problem.
And then I get a new problem, set the hop up perfectly. Shoot, after a few shots, the hop-up is turned down by the force of the BBs, so it's now held in place by tape.
Hop-up was then okay (ish) for the rest the afternoon, but impossible to adjust.
Another problem I ran into, which I have before with this gun, but not as bad, was the batteries.
I prefer semi, as I like my BBs too much to was them, which means pulling the trigger on and off a lot. As semi is dodgy (more below), I kept it on auto but only tapped the trigger, occasionally using bursts when people didn't take hits. Randomly, but very frequently, the gun would suddenly stop working, as if there's no battery in it. So I swap batteries, 10-15 minutes later, same thing happens. I put the first battery (presumed dead) back in, and it shoots perfectly fine again - for 10-15 minutes, then I have to swap the batteries again.
The batteries are not overheating, not even warm, I've tried a total of 7 different batteries today, all of which were perfectly fine in other guns, but my gun still did the same.
I have no idea what is causing this, could it be the motor? Gear box? Lack of fuse? Help please!?
And about the dodgy semi, when on semi, if I shoot fast, the trigger will lock as it it's on safe, to get out of this, I have to switch to full auto, shoot once or twice and then it'll be fine again. Any ideas what's causing it?
If I need any new parts, please suggest which ones (with links) that are good but affordable.
I'm sticking to sniping from now on - may cost more, but at least I don't have all these problems..
Thanks a lot, and even more if it fixes it!
I have an A&K M4 it came from XSite and was a Christmas present my step-dad got me, so is a good ¾ of a year old. The warranty has run out as it had a 6 month with it.
It's recently been re-wired to the front handguard (from rear crane stock), which I discovered it has no fuse in it.. need to get one me thinks..
Internally, it's completely stock and externally it has a few new parts, which are great and don't effect what I'm asking.
Took it to Urban Assault at RAF Upwood today, and instead of my day being ruined by the regular cheats, my gun did it instead.
Went to chrono it, the hop-up on minimum possible, BBs still fly way too high and is not even usable. So I use my step-dad's G&G for the first half of the day.
At lunch, I took my M4 apart to sort the hop-up out, no matter what I did, it stayed the same. Made sure the rubber wasn't folded or anything, made sure the nub was in correctly, tightened the gears. Still no difference, these are all stock parts.
I had a spare MadBull red rubber & nub, tried to fit those, the rubber seemed too long and the nub was also too long to fit, so I saved those for my sniper.
I now have a small piece of pen ink tube as a nub, which is slightly smaller, but harder, than the stock nub, and solved the BBs going too high problem.
And then I get a new problem, set the hop up perfectly. Shoot, after a few shots, the hop-up is turned down by the force of the BBs, so it's now held in place by tape.
Hop-up was then okay (ish) for the rest the afternoon, but impossible to adjust.
Another problem I ran into, which I have before with this gun, but not as bad, was the batteries.
I prefer semi, as I like my BBs too much to was them, which means pulling the trigger on and off a lot. As semi is dodgy (more below), I kept it on auto but only tapped the trigger, occasionally using bursts when people didn't take hits. Randomly, but very frequently, the gun would suddenly stop working, as if there's no battery in it. So I swap batteries, 10-15 minutes later, same thing happens. I put the first battery (presumed dead) back in, and it shoots perfectly fine again - for 10-15 minutes, then I have to swap the batteries again.
The batteries are not overheating, not even warm, I've tried a total of 7 different batteries today, all of which were perfectly fine in other guns, but my gun still did the same.
I have no idea what is causing this, could it be the motor? Gear box? Lack of fuse? Help please!?
And about the dodgy semi, when on semi, if I shoot fast, the trigger will lock as it it's on safe, to get out of this, I have to switch to full auto, shoot once or twice and then it'll be fine again. Any ideas what's causing it?
If I need any new parts, please suggest which ones (with links) that are good but affordable.
I'm sticking to sniping from now on - may cost more, but at least I don't have all these problems..
Thanks a lot, and even more if it fixes it!
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