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Update (2004/04/09):
Well, I was able to whack out a few pieces of the receiver, buttstock, and handgrip,
but I just moved out of the house and into one of those extended stay things, so
it's been packed and I won't be able to work on it for quite a while - I should
update the design page sometime soon, because I found a much better way
to get the BB's going a lot faster with the same motor and speed. Maybe I'll even
have a picture or design or something!
I also added a new design philosophy page under "philosophy". You know, if you're
interested in that type of crap. An "Other cool stuff" page was also added, which
I guess most people would call a link page. And there was much rejoicing.
I guess that's all for now. Don't overwhelm my e-mail account all at once now :P
QUESTIONS
- So what's this all about then?
- I guess thist all started up a little bit ago when my friend Paul got a
Glock 18C gas blowback airsoft pistol. Within a week I was over at the local
army surplus store picking up a spring-powered Beretta. Then another friend,
Richard, got an upgraded Steyr Aug, 4 (yes, four) MAC-11 submachine guns, a
Raging Bull, two Beretta M9s, and more (he worked as a scab worker during the
grocery strike, so he had some spare cash lying around. Ebay is cool too.)
- This was all well and good - until I started looking to get my own AEG
(or and Automatic Electric Gun). The average price for
and unupgraded gun was just under $300.00US. This price went from the extreme
low ($175 for a piece of crap) to the ridiculous ($2000 for an M1 Garand?).
I was even more confused when I found
this site
and found how relatively simple these things were. I knew I had to do
something when I found a "great deal" on ebay for a Heckler/Koch MP5 for
$245. I started thinking about how to build one on my own.
- Like most other things I start considering, it just went undone for a
while whilst I was thinking about how to do it until I got so sick of
thinking about it I didn't want to do it anymore. This time though, events
conspired to make me want to do this.
- I love a show on TLC called Junkyard Wars
(it's called something else in the UK, but - I don't know what, because I
don't live there), and they recently had a show about building an automatic
golfball launcher. I stole one of the teams' ideas (the one that won, incidentally)
to use in my design. (See the Design Page). Then I was poking around
some of the sites containing mods for Unreal Tournament 2003
and found the XM8
that the US Army is considering replacing its venerable M4 carbine with.
My mind was made up: I was going to make my own.
- What's airsoft?
- Why is your site so simple and boring?
- Because if I see another site that uses java to make hyperlinks or display
pictures, I won't have enough room to hide all of the bodies.
- Really though, I think that it's more important for me to focus on the
content and finishing my project and doing other things than making the site
colorful. Besides, I like making my own HTML by hand.
- How does(will) this thing work?
- Can you give my plans to build my own/give me help/build one for me?
- At some point in the future I may post more exact plans than what I
have on the design page, but right now I'm mostly
improvising as I go along, then writing down what I've done. I've looked and
haven't found any support documents for making your own airsoft gun, so I'm
basically trying things to see if they work. Once I get it done and time
permits, I'll post whatever I have.
- As far as personal questions go, it's important for you to know that I'm
just a college freshman. If it involves more than a potentiometer, I have no
idea.
- The amount and detail of replies will also depend on how many questions I
get. Really common questions, or particularly interesting or helpful questions,
will likely find their way onto this page.
- Again, I'm a college freshman. That means I have very little spare time.
I also haven't built my first one yet, so I probably couldn't build a different one.
If I could, it probably wouldn't be very good. For right now, I'd suggest you
hold off - either wait for the Japanese companies to stop gouging us, for me to
finish, or someone else to come along and do a better job than me.
- How do I contact you?
I've set up a hotmail account specifically for this site. E-mail me.
That's about all the questions I could think of at 1 in the morning. If you have
some, feel free to email me.
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