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December 31st, 2016, 05:24
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tappet plate broke after 30 BB's
My gearbox broke and i had replaced it along with the tappet plate. After putting everything in the new shell, replacing the tappet plate and adding a sector gear clip, installing a mosfet and an 11.1 lipo, i shot about 30 BB's and it stopped feeding. i took everything back apart and the tappet plate was completely destroyed. the gun came stock with 16:1 gear so it is shooting fairly fast. I plan on adding 13:1 gears but i want to solve the tapped plate issue first. anyone have any ideas? maybe a stronger or more flexible tappet plate you would recommend? thanks
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December 31st, 2016, 07:37
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Pics please so people can have something to look at and understand the points of failure.
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December 31st, 2016, 13:18
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Not Eye Safe, Pretty Boy Maximus on the field take his picture!
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tappet plate might be too short for the gearbox, or you shimmed the sector gear too high and it crushed it.
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December 31st, 2016, 20:23
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Better replacement tappet plate I guess.
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December 31st, 2016, 23:21
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December 31st, 2016, 23:22
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January 1st, 2017, 00:13
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Not Eye Safe, Pretty Boy Maximus on the field take his picture!
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when you've finished shimming the sector gear, put the screws in the mechbox, then press the air nozzle in. Should move in and out freely. If you're shimmed the sector gear too high, it'll jam up.
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January 1st, 2017, 03:49
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 Op I've taken the liberty of properly linking the image. Based on where it snapped yes it is highly plausible (probably a bs stat of 99%) shimmed too high. Most of the time you don't even need to shim the tappet plate side of the sector gear because the sector gear presses against the tappet plate keeping the gear in place. Shimming too much will cause it to seize or in this case destroy the tappet plate. |
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January 1st, 2017, 04:22
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"bb bukakke" KING!
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I'm going to say bad shimming... the fin is chewed up, like it's caught on something, when it catches hard it will snap or if it's just shimmed too tight that it can't move freely as mentioned. You might get some deformation of the fin over use but that's just nutty torn up to shreds.
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January 1st, 2017, 19:26
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Thanks for all the quick responses everyone. I am new to this whole forum thing so I am not exactly sure how everything works. the experience has been awesome so far tho, thanks again
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January 1st, 2017, 20:27
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one way I test the tappet plate is by placing gears, tappet plate and air nozzle,(no cylinder). then I close the gearbox with ALL screws. If everything moves smoothly then the size of parts are good to go. tappet plate should be able to move super smoothly.
It feels like your tappet plate got stuck or had too much resistance, use some lube on both size of gearbox where your tappet plate goes. |
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January 2nd, 2017, 02:12
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Not Eye Safe, Pretty Boy Maximus on the field take his picture!
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If the tappet plate breaks due to resistance, I promise it's not because of a lack of lube lol
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