Mercian and Ares One.

So there is a game next weekend that I am prepping for. I have been debating whether or not I’ll be taking Kerberos or Ares One. Ares had some issues last weekend at the shooting course. The night before, I dropped the 6.04 Deepfire 363mm barrel back into it. The 6.02 is way too tight and allows for no tolerance for dirt and will cause serious jams in the middle of an outdoor gun fight. I kept using the .28 gram bb’s but I got some serious double feeds! At least one jam per magazine…. not good. I dropped back down to .25g bb’s, but now its really emphasized the accuracy issues. I’ve got the Kerberos up an running to satisfaction. LOL when I first clocked it after all the upgrade work, it came in at 111 FPS. Yeah, my heart sank until I realized it was actually set to Meters and not Feet. A quick adjustment to feet revealed that it was actually 364. I slept easy that night. The Ares still isn’t battle tested which I have a serious issue with, but I’m sure there will be more events this summer that will get it baptized by fire. I think for the first real game of the season, an electric is the way to go.

I’ve also begun work on the Mercian today. Holy shit. Talk about a homemade abortion… Last week, I attempted to installed an ICS M120 spring inside the gun. The motor could hardly turn the gears. Pissed me off pretty bad, then I realized that the motor in the gun is a high speed motor and is really only meant for M100 springs or slower. Ok, not a big deal. So I pick up some parts from work to include a Systema Magnum motor and a Systema Helical torque up gear set. I was very hopeful at first. I installed the Systema gear set and shimmed it. They rolled smoothly, but felt really grippy. I didn’t want to take the risk of using them without them properly shimmed because of how friggin expensive they are. I degreased the stock gears and installed them back into the rifle with the Systema motor… It kept shorting out. It would either overheat the wires, battery, or the motor. I made the mistake of thinking that it may have been the motor, so I disassembled it and put it back together, didn’t solve the problem. But now I know how it put a motor back together. Well, I broke a screw on the motor so I’ve been forced to canabalize an existing Long Type Systema motor… I’m still on the look out for a replacment screw.

After this, I broke the gearbox down, installed the Sytema gears, and this time, I tested the gearbox with just the gears. The motor worked, the gears spun, everything should work, right? No, not at all. I put the M120 spring back in the gun and again, it barely turned the gearbox 6 times before locking up. Once again, I opened up the gearbox, swapped the spring for what I suspect could be a lighter spring, annnnnd finally it worked consistently. Well, put it all back together, yeah, didn’t work. Started burning up fuses. I tried bypassing the fuse, and instead, it fried a couple of connectors. After all of that, 6 hours down, I left the rifle alone.

Tomorrow, I retackle the rifle. I am replacing the conectors with deans connectors. I am once again, downgrading the spring. Hopefully I can track down the screw that I need. And hopefully by the evening, the rifle will be in good reliable working order! Wish me luck! I may need it! I am unsure of why its blowing fuses, there is no reason why that motor can’t pull that spring……
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