Post by boybikil on Oct 11, 2008 6:54:25 GMT 8
Basics that every airsoft recruit needs to know
Maintenance requirements of airsoft guns are not nearly high as what they are in real firearms. In fact, if you are familiar with firearms you will be very surprised how maintenance-free airsoft guns are in comparison. Excluding the screws and springs, most parts in airsoft guns are made from stainless materials so oiling of the gun is not necessary and in fact, prohibited. Real gun oils will just melt important plastic parts such as hop up units and should not be used.
In all times do your best to prevent foreign materials entering your weapon. During gaming your gun will collect dirt mostly on the surface, but also to inside, if you are careless. The best thing to avoid this is to keep your magazines stored correctly in pouches (upside down) and check them for dirt before reloading. Be careful that you don’t accidentally stick muzzle of your weapon into ground during the heat of combat. When re-loading BBs into magazines the first thing to always do is to remove metal snippet from BB bags. There are quite many cases that this metal snippet has ended up inside the magazine and subsequently caused feeding malfunction when fed into gun among the BBs. So when you are re-loading make it your instinct to check that there is no stuff that should not belong there.
Avoid playing in extreme temperatures. Cold weather will quickly strain your gun as the materials shrink in freezing temperatures. Slight rain is not disastrous with electric guns, but heavy rain needs to be avoided. Needless to say any airsoft gun will be damaged if you try to execute SEAL-type waterborne operations. Having said that, some older gas guns can bear that type of operations, if properly dried and maintained afterwards.
Do not shoot in long continuous bursts or dry-fire, latter being among the worst things that you can do to your gun. Long burst will cause more strain and overheat your gun. Electric guns do produce lot of internal heat when you shoot them in continuous full-auto.
At the end of the day, make sure that the spring is not left in thingyed or semi-thingyed position by shooting few single shots. Keeping the spring in thingyed position for overnight will reduce guns muzzle velocity about 10-15% (!). That is in other words at least around 26.5 FPS (8m/s) PERMANENTLY REDUCED from the regular Marui electric gun muzzle velocity.
Basic Maintenance Rules
• Do not dry fire your guns unnecessarily
(this is one of the worst strains to your gun).
• Do not use other oils than silicon oil. Wrong oils will break your gun!
• Keep dirt away from any entrance points in your gun
• Clean your magazines from dirt so it won’t end up inside of your gun
• Make sure at the end of gaming that your gun’s spring
is not in thingyed position. Fire last round in semi-auto to avoid this.
• Empty your magazines at the end of gaming. Leaving BBs
in will cause the magazine spring to deteriorate.
• Avoid extreme temperatures, especially cold
• Discharge the batteries with “smart chargers” that have this
capability. Do not use Marui battery dischargers that don’t
recognize when to stop discharging. Constant wrong battery
charging will quickly render batteries useless.
Maintenance requirements of airsoft guns are not nearly high as what they are in real firearms. In fact, if you are familiar with firearms you will be very surprised how maintenance-free airsoft guns are in comparison. Excluding the screws and springs, most parts in airsoft guns are made from stainless materials so oiling of the gun is not necessary and in fact, prohibited. Real gun oils will just melt important plastic parts such as hop up units and should not be used.
In all times do your best to prevent foreign materials entering your weapon. During gaming your gun will collect dirt mostly on the surface, but also to inside, if you are careless. The best thing to avoid this is to keep your magazines stored correctly in pouches (upside down) and check them for dirt before reloading. Be careful that you don’t accidentally stick muzzle of your weapon into ground during the heat of combat. When re-loading BBs into magazines the first thing to always do is to remove metal snippet from BB bags. There are quite many cases that this metal snippet has ended up inside the magazine and subsequently caused feeding malfunction when fed into gun among the BBs. So when you are re-loading make it your instinct to check that there is no stuff that should not belong there.
Avoid playing in extreme temperatures. Cold weather will quickly strain your gun as the materials shrink in freezing temperatures. Slight rain is not disastrous with electric guns, but heavy rain needs to be avoided. Needless to say any airsoft gun will be damaged if you try to execute SEAL-type waterborne operations. Having said that, some older gas guns can bear that type of operations, if properly dried and maintained afterwards.
Do not shoot in long continuous bursts or dry-fire, latter being among the worst things that you can do to your gun. Long burst will cause more strain and overheat your gun. Electric guns do produce lot of internal heat when you shoot them in continuous full-auto.
At the end of the day, make sure that the spring is not left in thingyed or semi-thingyed position by shooting few single shots. Keeping the spring in thingyed position for overnight will reduce guns muzzle velocity about 10-15% (!). That is in other words at least around 26.5 FPS (8m/s) PERMANENTLY REDUCED from the regular Marui electric gun muzzle velocity.
Basic Maintenance Rules
• Do not dry fire your guns unnecessarily
(this is one of the worst strains to your gun).
• Do not use other oils than silicon oil. Wrong oils will break your gun!
• Keep dirt away from any entrance points in your gun
• Clean your magazines from dirt so it won’t end up inside of your gun
• Make sure at the end of gaming that your gun’s spring
is not in thingyed position. Fire last round in semi-auto to avoid this.
• Empty your magazines at the end of gaming. Leaving BBs
in will cause the magazine spring to deteriorate.
• Avoid extreme temperatures, especially cold
• Discharge the batteries with “smart chargers” that have this
capability. Do not use Marui battery dischargers that don’t
recognize when to stop discharging. Constant wrong battery
charging will quickly render batteries useless.
