Airsoft G36 Repairs Echo 1 Quality

WOW time flies when your repairing airsoft guns, playing airsoft games and enjoying lifes finer things like...well work. Here is one of my recent pictorials and mini reviews on the Echo 1 G36. I have about 30 more pictures of the internals posted on our Version 3 Airsoft Mechbox repair pictures pages. This nice little addition to any ones airsoft collection retails for an average of $150.00 or less and has some pretty sweet airsoft clone attributes and bonuses added in by this company. As I have repaired and fired Marui's, JG and double eagle versions of this AEG I would have to say these E1's are a bang for your buck and a worthy investment.The mechbox has upgraded steel bushings factory installed and the internal build is very nice. Not sure why they have left the plastic spring guide in place and added steel bushings but this is an easy upgrade I would recommend. I have seen these plastic spring guides fail at roughly 30 to 50 thousand rounds in most applications, sooner in some, so be ready to replace this part. This G36 came in chronographing around the 365 FPS average that E1 and other airsoft clone companies are getting famous for.


The sector gear cam is another nice addition that will improve performance and help preserve the life of your tappet plate. All the internals and even the hop up are all standard parts meaning they will be interchangeable with other airsoft brands and manufacturers parts, which is another huge plus for these E1 guys. All in all I am pretty impressed...Again, by these Echo 1's and would highly recommend this G36 to any player. Keep it up E1 your making my airsoft field in Wisconsin a dangerously fun place to be with all these nice well priced clones showing up!

Airsoft Expo 2008

Good to Go! If you have not yet visited the Wisconsin airsoft expo website to vote on the location for this years airsoft festivities then do so now. The WI locations available this year are Milwaukee WI, Green Bay WI, Wausau WI and Madison WI. The voting ends on Jan 31st 08 and the promoters have scheduled the official location and date public release for February 4Th 2008. I attended last years 2007 WAE and met a ton of new players, got acquainted with several airsoft teams, watched everyone else win door prize after door prizes...None for armsdealer nope I gotta be one of those do gooder types who volunteers for stuff, so since I am on the committee that runs this event...I Can't Win...That's a dumb rule who made that up.

Anyway, back at the topic...
Last years airsoft expo was a great resource to pick up handy tips and DIY airsoft repair and tactical tricks from some of Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota local airsoft repair specialists. One day is hardly enough time to soak in all the information available at this event and did I mention Airsoft Shopping! We are talking about airsoft super center prices for 1 day a year only. Discounts on airsoft parts, aeg's game gear and more. Airsoft Freebies! Yes lots of door prizes and hourly prize drawings from the US Marines and US Army, Airsoft Extreme, Airsoft Guns USA, and more. Last years expo was also featured on page 14 of the U.S. Tactical Airsoft Milsim Magazine. Kudos to these guys for giving us a full page pictorial by Wisconsin Photographer Aaron Slusarek. I also renewed my Wisconsin Airsoft Association membership at their informational booth as well, and got to chat with some of the safety reps and officers of the organization, face to face instead of my usual member participation by online forum chat. So if you are a Air Soft geardo or enthusiast who will be in Wisconsin this July, Come on down and see why Wisconsin's Airsoft Expo is... Good to Go!

Airsoft AEG Upgrades Defined

Building custom, upgraded airsoft AEG's is a favorite pastime of mine. Many of these custom builds originate on the repair bench as airsoft g*n emergencies. Normally an old team loaner or some players ancient passed down, hand me down, aeg that needs reviving. Just like some people like to restore old vehicle's, I like to restore and upgrade old airsoft G*ns. On the AGR website I have added pictures of many of these custom airsoft restoration's and upgrades like the one above as well as some World War Two styles right up to present day M4 models with M203. At first look this appears to be nice, but nothing real special, just some sweet add ons. But Lets Take A Closer Look at the internals of this beast. This is what defines the upgrade and makes it a complete custom AEG.

The after market parts installed will improve the rate of fire and overall durability of this aeg mechbox. The steel aftermarket gears assure reliability and the solid transfer of extra torque that will be produced by the newly upgraded spring. The steel spring guide will handle increased shock on one end of the mechbox while the full metal cylinder and metal air nozzle will help dampen the extra piston vibration created at the front end. The trigger switch and wiring have been replaced with a low resistance replacement harness for maximum power delivery. This version two custom mechbox, installed in the full metal m4 above, add a metal hop up chamber and tightbore barrel and you have one clear definition of an airsoft upgrade. The Cost: priceless or maybe we should just say pricey!