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Originally Posted by yogurtstorm
Hi guys,
First please chill a bit, I need guidance, not more reasons to panic. For calrification: I have lightly filed the Magazine lips at the top of the mag, where BBs would not fit, not the actual airsoft gun.
The BBs would not fit at all without any filing on the mag lip. No fucking joke, if you put a BB in front of the lip and push hard, it would never fit. They are standard, Madbull 5.95mm .36g BBs, are these bad? I also tried 2 other brands that my brother had (he has been airsofting with a gunsmith for years so I tend to trust his word and choice in products). Funny thing: all of my brother's M4 mag lips have been filed previously too as he showed me and they all work perfectly great.
The shop owner from whom i bought the gun confirmed I would need to "mod the feed lip to get better feeding" when I asked if I should file more from the mag.
Right now the BBs FINALLY can be inserted into the mag, but there is still a lot of resistance (especially trying to push one out rather than put one in).
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You only need to file the front of the feedlip, not the top. If you file the top, you will get double feeding/crushed bbs's as there is very little retention to hold the bb vertically.
This is all you need to file:
Modified is in the mag and the left is a brand new feedlip.
Unless you are using japanese spec'd bb's that are 5.88+-, you probably will not be able to fit and feed lower quality bb's in a GHK mag.
Worse case is that you will eventually split the feedlip vertically in the channel as you are trying to push out a bb too big than the lip can take.
At that point you will have little to no retention at the top of the feedlip and will experience double feeding, crushed bb's and bb's being thrown about in the chamber as vibration / shaking from the blowback dislodges bb's from the mag since there is no retention from the top.
When filling your bb's with the provided GHK speedloader, you must do so at a 45 degree angle to necessitate easy loading. The bb's should go through the front of the feedlip in the filed channel, not the the top.
I never have any resistance when loading my GHK mags. If you do it any other way (ie vertically straight down) you WILL encounter resistance and wear out the top of the feedlips which you DON'T want.