Left For Dead gun take 2

[Airsofter1]

A good buddy of mine bought this AEG from Left For Dead when he posted all his stuff for sale on these boards.  When he got the AEG it would not turn the gearbox.  Plus the Magpul stock would not stay on the reciever and the wiring was shoddy.  Don't get me wrong, it is a nice looking gun, but that was about it.  Wall Hanger.  

What I had to do to get it working again for him was just swap out the spring inside with a weaker one as the one installed was too hard of a spring for the motor to crank the gearbox over.  I put an M100 in it and it now shoots about 350 FPS.  The coils on the spring I took out look quite a bit thicker than the M100s.

The Magpul stock was permently modified by Left For Dead to were it would no longer fit on a real AR.  The buffer tube threads were cut off so that it would fit flush with the Guarder Metal Body.  A Guarder Real Buffer Tube Adaptor was used to slide the Magpul stock on, but thats it.  There is no way for a real buffer tube to stay securely on an AEG without drilling a hole and tapping it for some kind of set screw - which I had to do.  Now it is rock solid and is not coming off unless you take the set screw out.

The wiring appeared to be hastily slapped together to acommodate the short free floating RAS so that a battery could still be hooked up to the gun.  That was an easy fix though - some soldering and shrink tubing made for a much better and pleasant way to hide the wires behind a battery box.

The flash hider is on real tight also.  Its on at the incorrect clock position.  This is something I have not been able to fix so far.

Now, I believe there were other players in the state that bought some of this guys other custom guns.  Did anyone else have similar problems?  For what my friend paid he should have gotten a AEG in perfect working condition I feel.

Here is a pic of the gun now.  Doesn't look different from how it did before.  You need to take a closer look to see all the little things that needed to be done to make this AEG skirmish worthy.

[azsarge]

You did a nice job on that piece, Mikey.

Other than the Tan reciever, it's something that I would take into a skirmish without hesitation, knowing full well that the labor you put into it restored in to full ass-kicking ability.

A great Close-Quarters blaster for sure!

As for the LFD gats, leave them for dead and don't bother buying one unless you want a nice showpiece!  When I first saw this particular gun it didn't work, and the stock came off like a whore's panties.  OK for photo ops, but not anything else.

[IcePlatinumSky]

My brother bought a LR-300 off of him. The only problem was that the connector was not attached to theTeflon wiring, and the selector switch was in need of repair. This was mentioned by Left for dead before he sold it to me. I had the experts at AEX take a look at it. It had some very nice internals. G&P Gear box with systema and G&P parts wound up shooting 450fps!!!. The only problem with the gun other than mentioned was that they felt a need to replace the motor pinion gear. No problem with the body or anything eles. Left for Dead said that the selector could be done by hand that he put it on wrong or incorectly. However, it turned out that it needed to be replaced.

I understand where you are comming from Mikey. My opinion is that he was a wealthy guy that liked to put these things together in his spair time. Selected in some cases the best parts, and slaped them together in a trial, and error type of setting. Some guns were better than others. Some had realy nice bodys, internals or bolth.

It was just a matter of taking the guns and getting them to work flawlessly on your own time. It was not that he chose shotty parts, it was just that he did not always know how to put it together with his own limited knowlege. However, I feel he was lacking in how he informed us what he did with each individual gun. For what he charged us, "yes" we should have gotten working guns. The problems that came with the guns were made up with the quality internals and bodies. I think he got board of messing with these things, and wanted to try to get as much money back as he could. Some of us still saved money in the long run.

I feel that with some of us he should have been more honest. In your case Mikey did he say that the stock was retro fitted to the gun like frankinstine from a real gun? Lots of us frankinstine are guns, but he should have been up front with it!!!