airsoft is extremely interchangable if you know your way around the brands... meaning you can save a lot of money by buying the most robust 'cheap/low end' gun you can find and then doing the exact same to it what everyone does to their high end guns when they break.
This is airsoft. everything breaks. It's not a question of if, but when, even high end stuff.
It's not hard to put together a gun that can outperform a ptw or a vfc etc in terms of mechanics for a third of the price. Where some of the lesser brands may suffer is manufacturing tolerance or quality of the external model. You can ignore the internal mechanics, they are all relatively interchangeable between brands.
The balancing act when you do the 'low end' shopping is to find the highest quality externals with internals like the gearbox shell that is robust enough to handle dropping in stuff like a DSG gearset or a 13:1 speed gears with high power neo motors to go 40+ rounds a second. But even then, you can just buy say a lonex preassembled gearbox and drop it into a 100 boneyard gun frame and be at under 300$ for a well built gearbox that will last.
You don't see much of it in canada, the market grew slightly different here because of pricing... everything was stupid expensive until this year, so if a dboys or JG or cyma started at 300-400$ because someone had to upgrade it prior to import vs a vfc or G&P etc at 500-600$ It's not hard to justify spending the extra bit but hang out on airsoft mechanics (like maciekA and I do, and a few others) you will see some ingeniously cheap and crazy shit done to something like a Dboys or JG gun to make them crazy.
With prices being reasonable now, you're looking at 200-300$ for that dboys and still around 500 for that vfc... so for people who know what they're doing, that's potentially quite the savings. Still nowhere near what the americans can buy for 200$ but the options have opened up.
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Originally Posted by suzenonest
Hmm interesting point about VFCs self shimming gears. I was shooting my vfc side by side with my almost stock g&g and with proper shimming, the g&g sounds wayyy better. The vfc does have a whine to it. Maybe it's time for a new gearset next time I crack her open.
Would the modify drop-in shimless gearset cause the same noise? I liked the concept when I first seen it
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shimming is not hard. IF you don't like the vfc self shimming ones, the modify ones probably won't inspire any confidence either. Don't let someone else claim he can do for you what you know you can do correctly yourself. :P