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Old January 7th, 2009, 17:39   #4
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Originally Posted by m102404 View Post
Am I a KWA fan-boy? Not really. No more so than I think G&G, CA and a couple of others have put out good products. I do think that KWA missed the boat on a couple of key points in producing their armalite model:
1. Retaining the split hopup design

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is it like the old marui design? if so i wouldn't call that missing the boat at all. with all the clones out there using the old one piece hopup unit, this is obviously an informed decision. the problem with the old tm v2 style design plus one piece hopup is that its position depends more on the location of the magazine's bb port than on the location of the nozzle end. i have built many many custom armalites in my time and worked on many more that already had that one piece hopup and i've had nightmares trying to stop the various leaking issues. it's a rare thing indeed to have a one piece hopup working without any leaks and feeding perfectly, and pretty much impossible if you factor in the many many mags out there and the placement of each of their bb tubes and where they sit in the magwell.
tm's original ar's had one piece hopups, and they went to a two piece design... keep in mind this was BEFORE the multitudes of third party magazines. wonder why every other manufacturer went the other way.
look at any of their recent rifles, the part that the mag keys into causing the bb keeper to open is separate from the hop unit yet nobody complains about their "two piece design".
the old ca rifles (that actually had stamped CA trades) had a two piece hopup and switched to one piece, everyone else followed. I'm glad at least one company finally put some actual thought into their products instead of simply cloning some things and blindly trying to replicate the "features" of their competition.
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