Airsoft Canada - View Single Post - Bearing spring guides and piston heads

mcguyver · January 4th, 2008, 19:27

Marui keeps the head-end of the spring rigid, yet puts a washer on the spring guide as a point of rotation (as the piston doesn't rotate). They do this with guns shooting sub-300 FPS. Why would they bother, if rotation isn't actually occuring?

When you look at it from another perspective, like big machinery, they usually have bearings to allow a spring to rotate, and those move slowly alot of times. An AEG spring goes from fully compressed to somewhat decompressed 15+ times per second. Rotation is a certainty.

January 4th, 2008, 19:27	#15
mcguyver Trader rating Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Northern Alberta	Marui keeps the head-end of the spring rigid, yet puts a washer on the spring guide as a point of rotation (as the piston doesn't rotate). They do this with guns shooting sub-300 FPS. Why would they bother, if rotation isn't actually occuring? When you look at it from another perspective, like big machinery, they usually have bearings to allow a spring to rotate, and those move slowly alot of times. An AEG spring goes from fully compressed to somewhat decompressed 15+ times per second. Rotation is a certainty. __________________ Age verifier Northern Alberta Democracy is two wolves and a sheep discussing what's for dinner. Freedom is the wolves limping away while the sheep reloads. Never confuse freedom with democracy.