Unfortunately the Lonex ARL in this gearbox is a bit weak, d'oh.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1149620/airs...broken_arl.jpg

Note to any readers reading this thread as a drop-in mechbox review. The above ARL failure is unlikely to happen to you unless you're doing "fun" mechbox stuff :)

How fun? "60+ rps sexperiment" fun?

Not gonna lie - I follow this thread daily to see what you say about that AK Lonex mechbox and its weighing hard on wether I make the purchase...

Had to say it!

Surprisingly (or not), I've seen my fair share ARL failures that looked EXACTLY like that.

Actually, not that fun. I haven't gamed this setup yet, this is just during assembly/disassembly and testing that it broke. Stock 18:1 gears, stock spring, nothing fancy. I think it probably broke during pinion/bevel alignment.

If your first guess is significantly off and you are mixing a high torque motor with a 6000mAh LiPo that can happily supply >200A routed through a MOSFET, the occasional accident can happen. Just be careful with these ARLs during initial setup if you're messing around with high powered parts.

edit: Also I'd like to report that this AK build is complete and the Lonex gearbox has worked out great. Due to the sketchy JG body I put it into I had to play around a bit with nozzles and sanding down a couple areas on the receiver, but it's great now. I'll probably use the V2 version of this gearbox if I'm doing any further builds in the future.

Yo. SC. Do you still have one of these? I kinda want to throw one into my VFC.

Yeah we have a few. Emailed you.

Any further confirmation of this? My purchase depends on either KA or Dboys and wether or not the Lonex mechbox fits.

Searches on google find the Lonex mechbox to be finicky in some metal receivers mainly to do with rear body pin alignment.

A list of confirmed receiver fitments would be ideal.

I'll drop the box into my KA body tonight and let you know.

you know what, I'm glad I don't have a ARL in my dmr. Thank you ASCU.

LOL ASCU...

In other news, as promised - Lonex box in a KA body. I don't see any issues, both body pins are in and the mechbox is straight.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...122_234436.jpg

PM sent - lets make some arrangements here :)

So one of these in a V3 for an ak beta with an sp100 would fit in my mp5k and with a lonex orange or red motor would give a prety high rof in a riliable box without having to swiss cheese or short stroke or anything fancy like that?

I've managed to snatch up a Lonex drop in from a user on the forums who bought it from airsoftstore.ca in a fairly recent transaction.

Looking at the selector plate theres a little spring that to my knowledge (based on other gearboxes) has a loop hole at one end to help keep it in place -

Mine has popped out twice now (yes I was fucking around with it) due to the fact that it DOES NOT have a loop on either end of the spring

Are they all like this? or did something break.

I haven't been able to test the box out yet (in the process of adding deans) but when the trigger is pulled - it clicks - whats that all about?