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Originally Posted by SuperHog
I may not be a PTW expert, but the PTW is just a redesign airsoft gun that Systema did many years ago to go beyond the AEG.
As for your comment on the motor/water. It works fine. After the brush break in the motor was dried with air and then motor spray that vaporizes without any residue, then blown again with air. The bearings are also relube.
I have put over 10 magazines through it and no issues or should I expect issues?
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My biggest concern is not the water you get in your motor while you are seating your brushes. Hell, this is not a new procedure, guys have also used alcohol for decades in this fashion. My main concern in use is that the water you are going to get in there is not going to be in a uniform submersion, nor is it necesaarily going to drain uniformly. Nor is it going to be nice and clean.
The solution to this is to seal up grip. It doesn't have to be 100% air and water tight, that is an excersise in futility. But removing the majority of the possibilities of contaminants is much better than leaving the motor exposed to them. I have seen them fail due to water, as well as excessive contaminants in the brush hoods (be it dirt, brush dust, whatever).
You also have to be cogniscent that the control circuitry for that motor are looking for faults, and if it sees it, it will lock out your gun. A motor fault is the #1 cause, and it can happen even if the motor itself will run. Contaminants that can cause alterations to the inductive properties of the motor can be sensed. I have seen it occur with motors that eat up brushes, and the conductivity of the dust across the endbell is read by the EL-001.
So, which is worse? Heating of the motor, which is really only a massive issue when large quantities of rounds at higher FPS are expended (like 2500 rounds per hour with an M130, which I have done), or keeping debris out of the motor?
I vote keep debris out.