Airsoft School - Shimming (Lesson 10)

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Airsoft School Lesson 10!
Have you ever wondered what "shimming" was?
Has the term been tossed around when you're talking to people on the field and you never knew what it meant or was too afraid to ask? Well this is a video explaining to you just what shimming does and how it affects your gearbox.

Disclaimer: * This video does not instruct you 100% on how to shim your gearbox and Evike.com and its affiliates will not be held responsible for breaking your gearbox by attempting a disassembly without the proper knowledge needed. This is a overview of what shimming is and is meant to be used as a guide and not a "how-to" shim video.

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[DisguisedAirsofter]

You aren't shimming the bevel to the pinion... that is one of the most important interractions. That is where you should shim FIRST.

[cccplt]

For the guys criticizing his shimming, PLEASE make a video on how to do it properly!!!

[Blackhawk9323]

this guy's doing cartoon network commercials apparently

[yoyager6567]

this guide is horrible... 

[DisguisedAirsofter]

@haronasi That probably explains it then, lol.

[haronasi]

@DisguisedAirsofter Siegetek all the way pal, bought f2f from Riotsc himself. As a gearbox I tend to use a CA gearbox, with custom milled 7mm steel bushings.

[DisguisedAirsofter]

@haronasi Not sure what parts you are using that have that small of tolerances... the only way I've had this is with Siegetek gears in some of the slimmer gearboxes. (or you are using very soft gears/pinion (IE: systema/TM gears, TM/G&P pinion) that can deform to function properly like this)

[benp3331]

@DisguisedAirsofter Thank you....

[benp3331]

@kalashnikob1 lol I did the same thing!!

[haronasi]

@DisguisedAirsofter I do. I haven't ran to a situation like that, not even once. the tolerances are so tight that the odds of that happening are so small. I shim my gears as close as I can to the left shell of the GB, therefore the the pinion and the bevel teeth meet up quite nicely, this also aligns the piston teeth rack with the sector gear. It's just my method, but using this shimming method I havent ran into a problem of misaligning the bevel and the pinion.

[benp3331]

Ewww, you shim via spur. My IQ just dropped.

[DisguisedAirsofter]

@haronasi Eventually meet up eh? Eventually could mean that just the front half of the teeth meet and you've got poor power transfer, bad noise, and low ROF, or it could mean that you would need the front half of the pinion to pass through the center of the gear for the rear half to meet properly and have poor efficiency, major noise, and low ROF. You really don't get it, do you?