Game in the Brain

G3 problems continued. Ok, so last I talked about it I’m missing about 20-40fps, even assuming the SP130([email protected]) spring settled a bit in the last 2 months. It just occured to me that this is the rough amount of losing the FPS bonus of a tight-barrel… which led me to consider maybe there is something wrong with my hop up.

I’ve been reading about using teflon to secure the hop-up. So for about 2-3 hours (3:30-6:30pm) I was in my “workshop” trying to gently and slowly fix the hop up system. I checked for videos of people fixing G3 hop-up and there are not many, or any at all. So if I do start making such videos, it would be one of the few or first.

I tried using rugby, but It doesn’t seem to stick. It got me thinking how did my smith do it? It is only after the whole ordeal, when my mind is more relax and not paranoid/distracted about accidentally breaking my hop-up mechanism.

First- he applied it to the barrel, a very thin coat and let it dry. He did this so that when the rubber is in place, it will not buckle and slide. He put silicone to help it get into the hop-up mechanism.

Anyway, so I got it in and with teflon coating one side. I did it by only letting the hop-up rubber go half-way, then well lubed eased it in. When there was some of the rubber visible and left to go, I wraped it with a very thin layer of teflon and lubed over it. It took several repeat attempts. The clip would not fit in nicely and the hop-up selector would not fit in, with the clip. It was very hard because the clip would only fit if the positioning of everything was very specific.

I realized that with all the chaos and ways to do this, how do I know the hop-up rubber is not compromised? Without a chrono, I can’t tell. Anyway, I’m borrowing a friends extra chrono and buying new a new hop-up rubber. It costs Php200 for the Guarder brand.

Their prices may be ok, since this is not their key or high-turn over product. This is just a guess.