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You think you're awesome, badly drawn Mel Gibson?
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MDK_Marshal
You think you're awesome, badly drawn Mel Gibson?
Registered: February 2005
Location: A small hole in a muddy field, wondering where my artillery support is.
Posts: 5,031
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Review Date: 26/7/06
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Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: £5.86
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Positive aspects of the product (pros):
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Metal, And as such mroe reliable than stock TM bushings, Cheap
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Cons:
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Absolute B****rd to fit!
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Wel,, I'll start at the begining. A Good friend of Mine Wanted to upgrade his SG/1, as it was running on a 9.6v battery with stock internals. So, one trip to the local airsoft shop later resulted in a bag of aprts, and his wallet being £200 odd lighter. I'd have recomended he get some systema Bushings, but they didn't stock them - only these.
So, Tonight, I cracked open the gearbox, and started fitting stuff. I decided to fit these bushings first, as it's the logical order of things.
I'm still trying to fit the damned things.
Bear in Mind that I started this at about 5 PM, and it's now coming on to 11 o'clock at night. that's six hours odd, or about four hours actual work, if you don't count the time I spent eating and the like.
See, I was expecting problems with these, but not like this. Usualy, bushings and bearings are a pain to get into the gearbox shell. Not with these. These ones went in niceley; they took a small bit of bashing to fit, but they fit with no real problems.
When I went to put the gears back, though, I encounterd the problem.
The axels of the gears didn't fit into the holes in the bushings. The holes were too small. And not by a piddly ammount, either. A good half a millimetere on EACH BUSHING. That may not sound like a lot, but when it's sinterd steel, it takes a LONG time to work with...
So. Frustrated, I got some sandpaper and sanded down the inside of each and every bushing. After five hours of work and after sanding most of the skin on my fingers off, I finaly got them to what I thought would be Alright.
Not a chance. They still didn't work properley. They fit, yes, and they seemed to work. I popped the bevel gear in with no shims, connected the motor up, and fired it up with the 96v battery. The gears turned.
To my horror, I realised that the gears weren't turning in the bushings - the bushings were turning in the gearbox!!
so, for the past two hours, I've been doing the one thing I hoped not to have to do.
I put each individual gear onto my cordless drill, got my whetstone out, and carefully reduced the diameter of each and every axle on all the gears.
Now, I could forgive this if it was just on one Bushing - or if there was a burr on one of them, maybe. But for the bushings to be the wrong size, and to force the person installing them to not only modify the bushings, but their gears as well - that's unforgivable.
Would I buy these again - Not a chance. I may have gotten a lemon, or six lemons, or had badly made gears. But I doubt it.
My advice - spend the extra money and get systema bushings.
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Registered: February 2005
Location: A small hole in a muddy field, wondering where my artillery support is.