Trouble with SL-8 AEG Rifle (Metal Gearbox Version

[vaalkk]

Heya

I'm new the the airsoft thing and recently bought two rifles. I got the Warrior1 L39A1 Sniper Rifle, which I particularly enjoy, and the SL-8 Metal Gearbox Version Electric Rifle.

I'm having trouble with the latter of the rifles.

Firstly, the products were shipped from Hong Kong, and the rifle in question was made by Elephant it seems. Everything was there, and in good nick too. The only thing I was missing was an instruction manual as to how to fire the thing.

The trouble I'm having is that the BB's don't seem to feed into the chamber, and thus not fire. Sure the fire mechanism works, but no projectiles are spewed out. It's frustrating and to be honest, I was hoping someone here might be able to give me an idea how to use it, as well as how to get it to fire the pellets.

Hope to hear from someone soon! Thanks!

[Creative Airsoft]

alrighty, there can be tons of reasons it wont feed but the most common are...

the piston is not reaching the barrel
barrel is damaged
mag spring is bent or damaged
lemon (which is very common with that type of rifle (an LPEG))
magazine is not fitting correctly.

those are pretty much the most common reasons...
a video of the gun firing would be helpful.
or picture of the piston and barrel.
it is most likely a bad gun (lemon) which is very commen with lower end AEGS.


hope this helps,

Gino

[mythe]

Is the magazine a hi-cap magazine? If yes, then you may be using it wrong.
To use a hi-cap, you need to open up the latch on the top, and fill it with bb's.
Then, wind the wheel on the bottom of the mag a lot, like about 10-15 full rotations.

To see if your gun is fine, and the problem is with the mag, try holding the gun upside-down, and putting a bb into the tube where they should feed. The gun should be able to fire the bb out.