A guy up our club has a reduced tune on a tx and that kept braking the guides he had a steel one made up and no problems as yet
Always looking for any cheap, interesting, knackered "project" guns. Thanks, JB.
Yes it was a skirtless piston,
I heard the person who made the kit are now doing skirted ones.
What is the science behind a two piece guide being better than a one piece, no heckling boys serious answers please go easy on me
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Whilst I agree that a two piece guide has less waste in manufacture I do think they require more precision in manufacturing with the two tapers
and achieving a flush fit at the base. I always have 1 piece guides and never had one break yet though my guns perhaps don't get as much use as some. I always ensure there is as big a radius as possible between the base and the stem plus always have a thrust washer on the base as well as in front of the top hat. None of my guns have shirtless pistons either![]()
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Were there also not a few mentions years ago of some people boiling their one-piece synthetic guides in an effort to strengthen them (through tempering)?
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A few years ago I experimented with delrin on a small hobby lathe. Cheap & quick. Not very acurate but a fun way to learn things. I much prefered Venom metal guides in my HW80's. I think many hobby tinkering efforts were made easy simply due to hobby lathes & delrin being cheap & easy to work with. As with everything, for anything to be of real value, quality leads & everything else simply makes a cheap substandard copy with artistic licence & clever marketing to seem a better deal
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NEXT EVENT :- September 7/8, 2024.........BOING!!