13/04/2022
This wasn’t going to be a post, but here we are.
What should have been a quick job took way longer than planned.
New quick detach suppressor arrived today from China, it even comes with a new flash hider. Everything going well so far remove grub screw, take off old flashed. Fit new flash hider and fit the suppressor.
Nice easy 5 minute job I hear everyone say.
This is where it goes wrong.
Test fired it to make sure its all lined up properly, grab the first bag of bbs from the cupboard.
First few shots perfect so I go to finish the mag then all hell breaks loose.
Shots going all over the place, left, right, curving around, bbs shattering flying up, dropping down.
So remove the suppressor to see if thats the fault, nope same fault, swap back to the old flash hider and still the same.
Now it’s time to strip down the RIF to check everything out, easy enough but this is a GE so it doesn’t strip down like other AR style RIFs. Finally get the hop unit and barrel out and discover the hop rubbers been torn and the barrel is full of residue.
Now I don’t want to blame the bb’s I used for the test however I had cleaned the barrel before the last game and it ran half a mag before it shat itself.
New barrel from the collection and a G&G green hop rubber and it’s behaving beautifully again.
Lesson learnt the bb’s I used to test will go into the bb grenades and maybe the moscarts but wont be going through a RIF again.
