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Old November 15th, 2012, 21:05   #13
MaciekA
 
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Originally Posted by Thenooblord View Post
I always go for plastic tooth pistons, if theres a jam, I'd rather just replace a $20 piston than $100 gears, modify polycarbonate ones are good
I'd just like to point out that this is what I too believed before I learned about AoE and pre-engagement. Don't listen to this advice. You can run a $10 metal rack piston through 50-100K rounds at 410fps@40rps and never break it.

The whole "sacrificial anode" theory of pistons and gears is from an age when extremely nice gears didn't cost $30 and extremely nice pistons didn't cost $10. That age is over.
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