[Flatlander]

Aw, okay now I see what you're saying, Tys. That's happened to me only once where the bevel was sitting too low and I had to shim it up higher - I couldn't physically get the motor in the pistol grip and was like WTF? It was actually on my buddy's gun in which I replaced his blown bevel with the kraken bevel. I generally don't put any shims on the bevel gear at all - if I do it's a very small one.

They're my buddy's modify gears and he did all the work himself (I helped troubleshoot a bit). He ran into another really weird probelm with these gears - the axles were thicker than stock. This caused his tappet plate and nozzle not to seat forward enough and cause a big airleak between the nozzle and hopup rubber. He wound up filing the fin back on the tappet. These gears have been a nightmare...oh well, his problem! I told him not too; his stock ones were perfectly fine...dummy.

Crunch, thanks for you input. Now everything is clear as mud (like usual) haha. I think I might stay away from the modify gears now with all these inconsistent results.


I'm curious if anyone has actually compared the gear diameters of regular/torque/hi-speed gears? The reason I've stayed away from anything but regular ratio gears is because when you change the gear ratio, you change the number of teeth on the gears. To change the number of teeth on a gear you either have to a) change the tooth profile or b) change the diameter of the gear to keep the same tooth profile. Option a) is what I'm assuming happens as there are space limitation inside the mechboxes and I'm sure they compromise in the profile design to get their ratio they require = bad.