Airsoft Thread

[Cortexian]

Oh, I can count on you guys for walking me through any internal tinkering I might do in the future, ja?

I'll do what I can to help you out, but I'm no AEG "gunsmith", LOL.

It's not, actually. They are related. The position of the safety is related to the position of the tapet plate, which is also related to the position of the piston. When your spring is partially compressed like that, you get a trigger lockup. Why else do you think just flipping your safety to automatic fire works at all? It's not a mechanical issue with the safety, it's an electrical issue with your motor not getting enough juice to keep going. I daresay I do know what I'm talking about here.

No... There's still a separate issues with a few models of AEG where the mechanical safety doesn't disengage all the way unless you push the selector a little past semi-auto. It's a completely different issue than having a compressed spring and a motor or battery that isn't powerful enough to compete the cycle on semi. This usually happens on ambi-safety AEG's that have a gear-axel moving across to the other selector as well, specifically when this axel isn't perfectly aligned with the selector gear on either side. This off-sets the selectors a small amount and "semi-auto" is still actually "safe" until you push it past a little ways. It's fixable if you tinker with the positioning and such, my G36K no longer does it.

So it makes sense how when I first go semi, I can fire a few shots before it does lock up? And I honestly feel like I get a better response from depressing the trigger all the way for each shot(though my tap firing is a lot slower!).

Yea, keep the trigger depressed until the AEG completely "cycles" each shot and you'll get better results. Sounds like you're getting the electrical issue Warsaw was referring to. Are you using an 8.4v battery by chance? A 9.6v will greatly improve the "snappiness" of your semi-auto fire.