Is my local airsoft shop liable for shoddy repairs?

[Mindspeed]

Nah just take it to a real shop and have them fix it......may cost an hour of labor and few bucks in parts at the most.

[Jester316]

Maybe if you put your location in your profile like a good forum user, we could find someone qualified to fix the issue for you...

But alas we can't help you...

[Reeko]

^^ sorry I've had a busy week. As long as I don't think about the scarred, f***ked looking wires I'll be fine. I think the gun is overheating? I don't even know. There's $180 down the pisser plus the $15 I spent to have it royally screwed.

this is why you dont by M4's. they always break. :P

[Alien_Hunter]

HURRRDEEE DURRR This is why I will never take my sh** apart again. Really it started like "Oh let's see what we have here!" and I could not get it back together, the motor housing that is.

[Tankwitch]

^^ sorry I've had a busy week. As long as I don't think about the scarred, f***ked looking wires I'll be fine. I think the gun is overheating? I don't even know. There's $180 down the pisser plus the $15 I spent to have it royally screwed.

Bah! This is nothing. My current headache that is my M4 cost me 360 and over a hundred in repairs. But I now know how much Classic Army, Airsoft extreme, Spartan Imports, and Version 2 gearboxes suck. Bright note, Matt over at the TAAS shop rocks lots of socks.

The motor housing should be simple to reassemble. First screw the grip into the body. Then place the motor into the grip. Finally attach the base plate and adjust the motor height. If everything else is fine it should be good to go.

[Junto]

:( HURRRDEEE DURRR This is why I will never take my sh** apart again. Really it started like "Oh let's see what we have here!" and I could not get it back together, the motor housing that is.

That's been my motto for years. I flat-out refuse to ruin my own shit. Anything that cost me more than $75 can be running on magic and kittens for all I care; I'm not going to look inside of it and end up paying even more for it.

Declassify your location and look for a better airsmith.

[Payback]

Really it only takes about 20 minutes on youtube, a little mechanical knowledge (how to use a screwdriver) and plenty of time for trial an error.

My first box took me about 4 hours to assemble correctly, now i can take a whole gun, strip it, replace everything and have it running again in less than an hour. They aren't that difficult. Don't over think them, all the stupid AOE and crap like that isn't worth it on a stock gun, and even on most guns that are slightly upgraded. Shimming is about the most time consuming job just because you have to put the box back together often checking it.

Get a used gun, break it, screw up fixing it, screw up some more, think you got it but it's still screwed up, then all the sudden you have it working, you'll feel like a hero in your own mind. Now you can save all that money you spent for some guy who learned the exact same way to fix it, and put it into more used guns and parts to fix them up.

[Junto]

I've heard that many times. It's not something I care to spend time learning and I don't care to spend money on the possibility of learning how to do it myself just to end up with a box of parts when a spring flies across the room and disappears forever. I'd rather pay a reasonable fee that helps out someone's business than make time and space for learning yet another new thing. It's perfectly acceptable not to work on or upgrade your replicas yourself.

[Matt]

It's an acquired taste. You can learn to repair your own AEGs, if that's your thing. I hate it. I'd much rather pay a professional to do the job right than muck around with it myself. Sure, all it takes is time, but time is money.

[Alien_Hunter]

I started with Dboy ak's and they always locked up on the AR latch. Terrible experience. I tried my damnedest to work on them. I had 3 of them, all the same problem. The first one I sold to a friend and bought back later to swap furniture on my second. Then the second had the lock up too so I took it to the same shop as the m4. They charged me $48 telling me 'it just needs a lighter spring and a high torque.' So like my current m4 they charged me for shit that did not work in the end. Yeah so I bought an shs high torque (neodium magnet) and a non linear m120. Still didn't work. Set on having russian load out, bought a third ak'74. Same problem.

I will update my location but Im in Sonoma county California. I was referred here by some people on Red-Alliance. Red-Alliance is for people with big wallets and snobby attitudes.

[Shortbu]

I agree with paying a reputable shop to fix, and or, upgrade my guns. I currently own around twenty, and have five in the shop right now. I bought my son a gun when he first started, he took it to one event and it quit working when he returned home. I'm in construction, and I'm pretty mechanically inclined so, I figured I'd slap it on the bench, tear it down, and I'd fix it. Ooooops. It's never worked again! We've completely canibalized it, so it's not a complete waste of $250, but pretty darn close. Besides, I don't mind spending a little more to make sure my gear is fixed by somebody that knows what they're doing, and keeping the almighty dollar floating around the airsoft community.

[Alien_Hunter]

I bought my friend's ICS mp5 and his vest. Wow, for being 3 or 4 years old and unused most of the time, that gun rocks.

EDIT: and my M4 will sit in the back of my car until it fixes itself or I get tired of seeing it.