My Armalite is Cursed.

[Eeyore]

All right folks, ready for the next installment of why is my gun fucked now?
So for some reason my G&G GR 16 stopped working. It will fire once the "freeze", I play with the selector switch and it may or may nor cycle once more etc etc... I have had this problem before when I first put on the metal Dboys body. What was happening was that the plate on the secector switch was too large and it was seizing the bushings and gear. I swapped out the plate to a thinner one and it worked fine for about 2 months. Now out of the blue its happening again. The selector switch is really tight, I have topush really hard to change fireing modes. I took it apart regreased and shimmed it and no dice. Any suggestions? I am really really sick of this cursed gun.

[Styrak]

Take it to a gun doctor to have a good complete look-over?

[BORDENSNIPER]

if the selector switch is very tight, take sand paper/file and sand/file it down just a tad bit. Dboys bodies arent bad but they have some fitting issues do to their beefyness.


cheers.

also, because it was so tight, check the 2 little metal connectors that the selector plate enages in order to fire semi or auto, make sure they are bulging out at an equal distance.

[Eeyore]

Thanks for the help all. It seems to work now for some reason. If I get this sam problem again I'm gonna call a doc.

[Crunchmeister]

The disc inside the body that activated the selector plate is too thick and binds one of the gear axles. This is common on DBoys aftermarket bodies. I had the same problem with mine and it had me stumped for months.

You can sand the disc down a bit with a dremel, or just get a new selector switch. I prefer the latter option, as once it's sanded down, it doesn't engage the selector plate as well anymore.

[Eeyore]

I had aleady changed the selector switch to one with a thinner disc. It worked fime for a while. No clue what the problem was the second time. I was playing around with the selector switch and I heard a pop. Then it worked like normal again.

[Amos]

A good solution to all these mystery parts is to not use cheap, low-end stuff... The way I see it, the amount of time your gun will be down having strange mystery problems and the chance that your gun will break mid-game is not worth the little bit that you save buying low end parts.

[Eeyore]

Thats true. So what we need is more retailers carrying more high quality products and more of them... HINT HINT!!!

[Amos]

Originally Posted by notom66866

Thats true. So what we need is more retailers carrying more high quality products and more of them... HINT HINT!!!

The importers are still stuck in 6 months ago's prices, and because of all the new cansoft and all the cheap crap prices have deflated an insane amount... It' just not worth the hassle anymore

[Shirley]

Probably your shimming and/or bushings that can cause a problem with your selector plate.