M26A1 BBs Container - ArniesAirsoft

Author

Shao14

Misopethamenos

Registered: September 2004
Posts: 306,044

Review Date: 25/2/06

Would you recommend the product? No | Price you paid?: �5.00 | Rating: 4

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Looks cool from far
Cons:	difficult to use as BBs container

When I was making a big purchase from WGC one time, I added this
little item to my order since it is so cheap. Well, that's pretty
much what you get: cheap.

From far away, the M26 looks pretty good, and many people have
mistaken it for the Escort M26A1 Gas-Powered BB Hand Grenade. Aside
from a ugly seam line runs through the body of the grenade, the
texture finish looks pretty good albeit slightly shiny under the
light.

The spoon and ring are metal, and the ring can be pulled out, but
the spoon is not spring loaded, so it will not flip up after the pin
is pulled. Be careful with the joint that the spoon is connected to
the grenade, mine broke after 5 minutes, but can be glued back on,
and if one don't keep taking the spoon off (not that one ever needs
to take the spoon off), it won't be a problem. The spoon is slightly
longer than the body, and this prevents the grenade from standing
up, but can be easily corrected by bending the spoon a bit more.

There's a small adaptor comes with the grenade, but it is pretty
useless. In fact, the whole grenade is pretty much useless except
look good from far away. Why you ask? Read on.

This device is a BBs container. It is surprisingly light when
empty, but when it's full, it has a good weight about 1kg depending
on the BBs you fill it with. It holds about 500 or so BBs.

The main problem with this is that it's a royal pain to get BBs
either in or out of this thing. Unscrew the top part reveals the
opening of the container, and the diameter is so small that only one
BB can pass through the hole at one time. If you don't use a speed
loader to fill this thing, then expect to either spill or take a
long time to fill it.

After you somehow finally get the BBs in, good luck on getting them
out. The concept was that BBs would flow out one by one nicely. It
would have worked had the BBs all lined up nicely in single file, but in
reality, BBs tend to jam at the opening when one tries to pour more
than one BB out, and it requires you to shake the device vigorously
to un-jam the BBs. The adaptor is supposed to be used when loading a
hi cap, but it does not help the BB jamming at the opening one bit,
and the opening is already small enough to pour to hi caps only if
the BBs do not jam all the time.

In conclusion, the grenade may look cool, but it is far better to
just keep your BBs in a zip lock bag instead.

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gigfran

Registered: April 2007
Posts: 33

Review Date: 29/5/07

Would you recommend the product? No | Price you paid?: �5.00 | Rating: 4

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	looks ok from a distance
Cons:	nigh on impossible to use.

I agree whole heartedly this is one of the most infuriating airsoft gadgets i have ever used. As for ugly flash lines etc a scalpel and a bit of 1200 wet and day. then krylon og for the outside.