How to Fix an Airsoft Gun

Video Transcript

"How's it going? This is Travis with weaponblender.com and today we're going to go over a few, common problems and how to fix them. First thing, if you hear a muffled sound when you're firing and nothing's coming out, chances are you have a BB jam. The one thing you don't want to do is try and clear that out by firing it out, you're under risk of stripping a piston among other things. So, what you want to do, first thing is turn down your hop up unit. In this case, it's located here, so you want to turn that all the way down, okay? And then, we're going to use our cleaning rod, you remove the mag and there's two ends on a cleaning rod, there's the tip end and an end with an eyelet, we want to use the tip end and carefully slide it in while looking at the mag well for the BB. Okay? Now, we've unjammed it. And it's clear! Okay, another common problem has to do with electrical. If you pull the trigger and it doesn't make a clicking sound, you get nothing but first thing you want to check is your battery, make sure you have a correctly and fully charged battery. If you've ruled that out, another common problem can be with fuses and so what you can do is bypass the fuse without harming your gun. So, you can find the fuse usually in housing located just after where the battery connects to the gun. Simply remove that housing and you'll see two brass connectors holding that fuse in place, simply remove the fuse and connect those two brass brackets and test the gun to see if it fires. If that's the case, you know you have a bad fuse, you can either replace the fuse or you can bypass it by simply stripping back the wires soldering them together and then shrink wrapping around them. Okay? Okay, another common problem that's easily fixed has to do with the motor, if it slips out of place, you'll get an ugly grinding sound, sounds like this, okay? What that means is the motor has slipped out of the gear box and is not engaging it properly. To fixed it on most guns, there's a set screw at the bottom . So, you want to test it as you tighten it to make sure you get it adjusted right. Okay? Still not tight enough. Okay? So, that's how to adjust the motor. For any problems beyond that, for anything that requires opening up the gear box, we definitely recommend going to a professional and some of that knows what they're doing 'cos it's very easy to get into a gear box but not so easy to put it back together right."