Author Topic: Got my R/C Airsoft tiger today (Read 779 times)

BlueJ1 · « **on:** January 12, 2006, 05:19:37 PM »

Got home and found it on back step. Step down and opened it up to see how well it works. Taking it easy for the first few minutes I actually read the manual. 3/4 of it is in Japanese. Anyway, looking at the pictures I get the jist of it. I find the battery pack and try to insert it into the bottom. It dont fit...its maybe a 1/8 of a inch to long. So after some cutbacks on extreme ends of it I can get it in with some elbow grease. Next I move on to driving it. This is the fun part. Drove it around some, gets some good speed. Turns are amazing, the tracks work completly.

Ok enough of that, time to shoot some stuff. I insert 3 small BBs into the upper hatch that serves as the ammo holder. I aim downrange at the garage door, push the left analog stick forward. Makes some noise and nothing happens. Try a few more times with different BBs. After about a hour of rassing and frassing I flip it over to turn it off and it decides to discharge a BB into my inner thigh. Boy that felt good.

Move on to looking in manual for possible FAQs or something in the lines of help. None. Well, time to break out the screwdrivers. Start the dismantling. After about another 2 hours of rassing and frassing I isolated the problem down to the actual part that fires the BB. I open that part up now. Check make sure the gun is empty, turn it on and test fire the gun. The little engine that charges the spring works just fine. Then I look into the other half of the gun. Inside are about 5 tiny little white plastic gears. Also included with the gears is a substance I would like to call grease or some kind of lubricant. Honestly it looks like someone had a cold and sneezed into it. I clean it up some, reminding myself to put some real lubricant in later. I then find the problem. Its a spring used toward the back of the gun that applies pressure to the peice that after reaching a certian point flys forward and sends the BB flying. I find that the spring is putting too much tension on the gun and gears making the little motor stall. So after my fingers get some feeling back in them I am going to test out using some fishing line to tie some of the coils together and relieve some pressure.

(Will post some pictures later)

Meatwad · « **Reply #1 on:** January 12, 2006, 05:31:52 PM »

Glad to see it finally showed up. Sucks about not working right though. That figures you wait a long time for it and as soon as you get it, its fudged.

There a way to mod it to fire .22 rounds?

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 12, 2006, 05:35:53 PM »

Not much room in turret. And if I need myself whole for awhile. Can see the headline now. "Local Teen Shoots Himself Trying to Attach gun to R/C Tank"

DrDea · « **Reply #3 on:** January 12, 2006, 05:46:05 PM »

LMFAO....BlueJ your a true bonehead of a dweeb kiddo.Nice job finding out what the prob with the gun was tho.

rabbidrabbit · « **Reply #4 on:** January 12, 2006, 05:47:22 PM »

screw that, why have a whimp gun? Put a 22 on that sucker.. that 88 was a real gun.

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 12, 2006, 06:03:17 PM »

Heres a picture of the problem in question. The spring is in the upper left.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #6 on:** January 12, 2006, 06:20:48 PM »

Judging from the size of the spring in that picture it looks exactly the sme size as a spring I have sitting before me this very minute. a leftover part from a pair of bifold doors I just installed for someone.
the spring that goes into the upper track.

If you ever need a replacement or want ot experiment modifying it without worrying abut destroying the original you might want to consider checking it out.

g00b · « **Reply #7 on:** January 12, 2006, 06:37:33 PM »

Dude...

Before you go changing stuff you might want to make sure you got a full charge on the battery and the battery itself is in good condition. Problem sounds more like low voltage than a design flaw. Mine stops firing reliably when the battery gets too low.

g00b

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 12, 2006, 07:05:11 PM »

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Originally posted by g00b
Dude...

Before you go changing stuff you might want to make sure you got a full charge on the battery and the battery itself is in good condition. Problem sounds more like low voltage than a design flaw. Mine stops firing reliably when the battery gets too low.

g00b

That was the first thing I did. I learned that it was actually stripping the gears because it was spinning.

Well I fixed that part. Squeezed the spring alittle. Its about a 1/4 inch shorter. Works great now. But upon re-asembly I broke a wire. Need to break out soldering iron tomorrow.

Midnight · « **Reply #9 on:** January 12, 2006, 08:18:30 PM »

How much did you pay for this broken thing, and which web-site was it that stole your money?

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 12, 2006, 08:21:09 PM »

Answers within.

DrDea · « **Reply #11 on:** January 12, 2006, 09:09:37 PM »

My name is BlueJ........I am a rock.......Err rook.I have l33t skillz in fixing thing more retarded than m3.

I still kinda respect ya tho,Cause you have what I once had but what I now have is better than what you have.

Suave · « **Reply #12 on:** January 12, 2006, 10:13:14 PM »

The instructions are in japanese ? That's odd It's made in PRC, instructions should be in mandarin.

Well it works better than most Hen longs out of the box allready. So that's good.

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/forumid_369/tt.htm

Also check the yahoo groups.

Suave · « **Reply #13 on:** January 12, 2006, 10:32:39 PM »

Ok, there's a good example on that site that you bought if from of why the buyer needs to be wary. They try to pass off a hen long tank as a much better tokyo marui.

The 1/24 abram. All of the big photos are of a legit tokyo marui or Vs tank. However in the smaller photo of the tank, the one where it's shown next to box and controll, you'll notice that it's a different tank.

At least I noticed, because I know what to look for. Hen long abrams don't even have the right number of wheels, you'll notice in that photo that the wheels are blackedout, it has a garish paintjob, and it doesn't have a TM controller, and TM tanks don't use rechargable battery packs.

And then it says

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- Authorized OEM Factory for Marui RC Tank

. That's pure bull****, they're lying. Hen long 1/24 tanks are illegal commie ripoff's of tokyo marui tanks. We all know how well commies respect patents and intellectual property rights.

I wish you luck Bluej1, but had I been able to respond to your thread before you bought the 1/16 HL tiger. I would've strongly advised against it.

DrDea · « **Reply #14 on:** January 12, 2006, 10:42:44 PM »

The Chinese have a serious penchant for ripping off patents.Ask intell.or check any Tom Clancy novel.he always hes a chapter dedicated to Chinese ripoffs of US products.