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Originally Posted by pestobanana
In my opinion lonex is only really good for two things: their pistons and piston heads. They're the best general purpose pistons. Everything else they do is average. Half of their air nozzles don't seal on anything due to machining errors for the internal O ring channel. I've had at least 5 like this. I've had two Lonex gear sets, both were defective out of the box. One had a cracked sector gear, the other had a bent spur shaft. The bevel gear on the latter stripped in a mild build without much use. Their motors have comparatively weak magnets, and their commutators are extremely inconsistent. I've seen at least 5 with bad comms. For people reading this, I'm not bashing Stealth's shop, his customer support is fantastic. This is my experience with Lonex as a brand.
As for RA, yes their QC is terrible. Some of their racks can be bent by hand, almost as soft as TM metal. Some of their pistons are strong though. Some.
SHS is a Chinese lottery brand, but if you happen to get a good batch their parts are great for the price. I've never had problems with the strength of their pistons, only problems with fitment.
Also going to say that 16:1 gears and a Tienly 45 is going to easily put the OP around the 40 RPS mark. Unless he knows how to build high speed stuff this is going to end very poorly.
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I'm not surprised by your report above - I've had similar issues with Lonex gears in the past. But have you reported these issues and other failures and provided supporting empirical evidence to your retailer so that the products can be revised and improved? Or are you reporting these issues now which may have occurred up to 2 years in the past with no evidence to support them?
I'm disappointed in the number of techs who continue to advocate for companies who do little to no QC, do not take feedback, make unnecessary design changes without validating measurements - leading to the scrapping of entire batches of parts - and producing products which are only "good for the price". Continuing to patronize these manufacturers and the retailers who stock them really is doing a disservice to the aftermarket parts world. Failure to report issues to your retailer that DO offer after-sales support also falls into that category of disservice.
I'm picking on only one company here you can easily generalize. How many times do you have to break an SHS product before you can draw a conclusion about their apparent lack of consistency and quality? And what exactly is that pricepoint where the grief and worry associated with installing a newer batch of SHS product is somehow justified? I see the argument all the time of "SHS makes good enough <insert part here> because this generation/batch works really well for me" and then ergo it seems like the company as a whole must have turned over a new leaf. On the other hand, if a more reputable company who sells items with a higher pricepoint pushes out a new batch of product 2 years ago which does not live up to expectation in specific applications (namely high-power or high-cyclic-rate, which by-the-way corresponds to quite literally 1% of all airsoft builds on the field), then suddenly a generalization is made that basically all past and future iterations of the company's product is suddenly sub-par.
Am I missing something here? Is a particular part that's half the cost but requires twice the time to install somehow more worthwhile? Or is it about being a hobbyist where you must expend hours on a part to either get it to work or improve it 10% that gives some form of die-hard validation? Does it have to do with this dick-waving?