It, well, works. No visible issues or uneven chromed surface, doesn't seem to scratch easily. Shoots straight and at a decent price that's not horribly expensive for a chromed carbon steel barrel.
That's really all to it so far.
It, well, works. No visible issues or uneven chromed surface, doesn't seem to scratch easily. Shoots straight and at a decent price that's not horribly expensive for a chromed carbon steel barrel.How do you like the Gurren, how's it compared to other barrels?
Welp, I guess there's a good reason to stick with official products instead of aftermarkets and why you shouldn't use your barrel as a leverage pointI managed to get the rifle out yesterday, and the only upgrade I had in it was the 2.8J spring, but.. This gun is going to have to sit on the backburner for a while with me.
I hadn't realized it, but the field I play on is a lot of fast paced action, small to medium sized maps, occasionally a large map. But I've gotten so used to the 1" bolt pull on the Striker, making super fast follow-up shots, so much so that I can't commit fully to the Tac41. With that being said, Mancraft has already stated in a comment that they're working on an SDiK kit for it, so the day that becomes available, you best believe I'll be one of the first to order it.
With all that said and done, mine does need some work. To no fault of their own, mine became a lemon due to some.. unforeseen circumstances. The orange tip fiasco that shredded my bucking, replaced the bucking, barrel is most likely warped, and the fact that one of the sling points gave out 3 times (not sure if it's a flaw with the sling point or the rifle's sling mount), but when the rifle was slung with the barrel facing down and the sling point gave out, the barrel hit the ground from about 2 feet up. From then on, I noticed the shots were more or less straight, but they were.. angled, from left to right. The scope didn't hit the ground, it was just the barrel that hit the dirt at an angle, and I managed to catch the rifle before it completely fell over. It's not some cheapo airsoft scope that got knocked out of alignment, this is a real steel legit Vortex scope.
In other news, I'd also bought the Stalker variable weight piston for the Tac41, but.. there's basically no documentation on how to assemble it. Just a handful of weights, a spring guide, a ton of o-rings, a piston head, an airbreak, and two rings - one of which being a guide ring, and the other being the sear ring. Which ring is which? Where does each go? Nobody knows. I looked up a video of someone else using it and copied their assembly, and had zero air seal and a drop from 2.7J with the stock piston to a 2.3J with the Stalker piston, only to be told in the facebook group by Stalker that it's wrong.
I want to like this rifle. I really do. But for my playstyle of fast-paced, quick follow up shots, it's just not in the cards for me at the moment. If I could have it my way, I'd definitely get a shorter barrel and basically replicate my AS01 setup - Get a 330mm outer barrel and a ~417mm inner barrel, throw on my "mock" suppressor, get the SDiK for it, and voila - another faithful scout sniper setup.
Something something DMR.I want to like this rifle. I really do. But for my playstyle of fast-paced, quick follow up shots, it's just not in the cards for me at the moment.
what about the 90 degrees edges of the sides?This takes away stress on the sealing rubber, since no sharp 90° edge once the nub pushing it.
Sorry, I'm NOT using an 'R'-hop, just the stock bushing and hop-arm, although with a tiny peiece of strong rubber tubing beneath the 'points' of the hop arm, to (in my estimation) 'spread' the pressure a bit more evenly. When I installed the new barrel with the angled-front cut that the shop had made, I got almost NO movement of the hop-up adjustment arm, and the hop-up chamber didn't seem to habve any effect on the trajectory. After I pulled the barrel and filed the window to look more likie the stock one, it worked better.Also helps the rhop have a sort of better contact with the bb, more like centered on top of it. If you use a one piece rubber and tight chamber also preventing the window edges cuting into the rubber once pulling the chamber apart. Its really just a small detail... As a diy solution I would also not recomend to file a stock window, its not really possible to do it precisely.
Silverback provides a small tube of silicon lube, but in practice PTFE spray works as wellHey guys,
Got my T-41 2 weeks ago.
Pritty happy with prefoormance out of the box.
Shooting 0,32g bbs 330 fps (1-2 fps deviation).
Streight flight ~50 meters with hop-up set to 3.
At this range in calm weather groups 90% inside A4 format.
Yesterday got upgrades pack from skirmshop...
Silverback advanced piston with airbrake, SB 120N and 150N springs and few 70deg buckings. Off course spare mags...
Unfortunally i'm away fo a few days and not able to work on the gun.
This allaws me do some research but not much info so far.
What type of lubricant would you guys recommend for the advanced piston with the vton o-ring?
i watched the rifle assembly from scratch video from silverback.
The man use syringe with noname white grease(i assume silcone) for the piston rubber cap and spring guide rod.
Then he is spraing WD-40 PTFE dry lube in and outside the bolt cylinder.
But this is for the stock piston head...
Someone with experience on the life span of this viton o-ring?
I think there in no service o-ring kit fot that piston yet.
No info for the size of the vton ring.
Off cource i can test different sizes but the right one is critical specially for dynaic application.
I wrote to [email protected] no naswer yet.