[Hectic]

Well at the onset it looked good in respect to the pick up tooth to sector meshing but yes I see where shaving the extra tooth to compensate for the extra padding caused it to fail.
I have removed the sorbo buddie. Have to shave the seccond tooth a bit and then it will be good. Just packed it away before dinner gonna grab some more low res wire and do that while I have it apart.
I had never used the sorbo buddie before but because of the higher fps it was recommended to "protect the sorbo pad from wear" basically.
I'm sure in a setup like this (likely any 30rps+) something will fail or start to act up well before the sorbo pad gets worn out without the buddie so I don't see any issue with leaving it out.
I will say that shs piston does seen to fit quite nicely, it doesn't get hung up like the lonex one did before I shaved it down and (without weighing it) it say it's easily 20% lighter than the lightened lonex as well. Hopefully that will make the piston travel faster reducing pre engagement chances. Only thing that worries me is friction. I know it's not tight but I'd think the polymer pistons would be sort of slick but metal on metal should I use special lube? (i usually use madbull grease or super lube)