Poor copy of Charlie's Angels

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This is a poor copy of Charlie's Angels, photo taken on october 24th 2004. You can see there Majki with his sawed-off AUG, Wrubel with borrowed Famas (the replica was and is owned by Kmicic) and Squarek with his MP5K. That was very nice game because I always liked playing with many people (many targets to shoot).

Majki and his Steyr AUG

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Majki's first AEG was this Steyr AUG replica by Tokyo Marui. I presume he bought it somewhere around autumn 2004 because this photo was taken on october 10th 2004. As far as I remember he sawed-off part of the barrel, silenced it (he put some foam around gearbox inside the stock) and sold the replica with income. You can see the sawed-off rifle in the post about poor copying of Charlie's Angels.

At that time I didn't understand Majki because he was buying and selling replicas on a regular basis while I stuck to one MP5 SD3. It seems now that this is a proper way of maintaining your ASG collection because you can't tell if the replica you want to buy will fill all your needs. This is the reason for which I had couple different submachine guns and rifles and even now am not sure which one I prefer...

Note that this is the same replica I own at the moment - Steyr AUG A1, but from different manufacturer. I own a Classic Army replica and this one was made by Tokyo Marui.

The silenced AUG...

I just got back from Majki's home. I went to see him to install the tuning parts I ordered for my Steyr AUG Classic Army replica.

We installed the bore-up set and the spring guide with no trouble at all. It's easy so we didn't expect any difficulties, we only thought that positioning the gears with shims will take the most time. And we were right.

I wanted to put the ball bearings inside the holes in gearbox only to find out that I ordered 6 mm bearings while I should buy 7 mm set. So the ball bearings went back to the box and the original bushings were left intact.

Majki put the helical gears inside the gearbox. He closed it, attached the motor, and tried to fire the gearbox. The motor mover the gears a bit and stopped. We thought that the battery was not charged enough (what's odd -- it fired the replica in its original state) and attached second battery, with no effect.

It took us some time to find out that one of the teeth on the spur gear was broken and we had to use the file. After that and putting all the shims we thought we need we closed the mechbox. Nevertheless the battery was not able to move the piston so we put together the replica and I went home.

At home I plugged a fresh 1,200 mAh battery to the replica and it fired easily.

I thought that the Steyr AUG after these alterations will be silent. I was wrong. It's much louder than originally. It sounds like a drill. Since you have your ear next to the gearbox it is not pleasant to fire the replica. :(

So it seems I threw $200 down the silent toilet. :(