My G3 goes green - General - Facepunch Forum

(Well OD green) Story first. So the day before an airsoft game a few friends come over. So with the friend who was going to the game the next day, we kinda screw around with our airsoft guns in the yard. Later another friend sets down my G3. I thought nothing of it till I heard a snap. Everyone froze, I'm enraged to find he was leaning on the stock of the Classic Army G3 Taktik. He buys me a G3 OD green stock set from Cheaper Than Dirt. (and an Airport directory) We played the airsoft game with a broken stock and a good amount of duct tape that next day. Well the stock set came today. It was for a real steel G3 so I already had a couple files and the dremel ready. (Forgive some shake) [IMG]http://a.imageshack.us/img844/5403/dsc00002tl.jpg[/IMG]The black stock above is the old. The Below is the new. As you can already see that massive spring will have to go. [IMG]http://a.imageshack.us/img835/6321/dsc00007i.jpg[/IMG] I had already removed the 2 screws to the buffer, but it didn't want to come out. Quick search on the internet shows that 2 kind of stocks are made. Ones with removable butt caps and ones glued on. With nothing really to lose, I threw it in the vise and twisted and turned that cap till it pulled itself off. Apparently they bend 16 gauge steel around two pegs through the stock to hold that son of a bitch in place. [IMG]http://www.mg-42.net/images/G3stock/buttstock_assy.gif[/IMG] Now with that out of the way and access to the screw, I find that every screw driver in the house is too short to get to it. I did eventually find a 6 inch screw driver, but for really small screws and end up snapping the end of the driver. I quickly made my own screwdriver on the grinding wheel. Lesson learned, Locktite can fuck off. [IMG]http://a.imageshack.us/img341/9765/dsc00003sa.jpg[/IMG] Finally able to wiggle the metal attachment off. [IMG]http://a.imageshack.us/img836/9287/dsc00009v.jpg[/IMG] What do you know... [IMG]http://a.imageshack.us/img834/4858/dsc00013aa.jpg[/IMG] CA G3 metal part where the stock would go. Turns out,the metal part that attaches to the body of the gun, the one the came with the green stock doesn't fit on the CA G3. The CA G3 metal part doesn't fit the green stock. So I took a break from that and fitted the forestock to the gun. It was as simple as 'fit onto gun, dremel down whatever interferes'. The plastic creates a lot of dust so I dawned a dusk mask going into this. It seems that the CA G3 has a lot of unnecessary metal sticking out and that the real G3 stock was suppose to slip into something before being leveraged up into the front pin. CA didnt give the G3 a place for that to go into, so a good amount of plastic was removed there. [IMG]http://a.imageshack.us/img191/2200/dsc00014ke.jpg[/IMG] As it stands right now, only problem I have right now is the front pin just before the sling mount. It isn't perfectly aligned but some more dremel time will solve that. Thats were it stands right now. I'll try to finish tomorrow(today). I just don't know how exactly I'm going to attach the stock to the CA metal part. AND since the OD stock has two massive pins in the way, I can no longer use a large battery. I have borrowed a nunchuck battery and it looks like it will fit once the remnants of the buffer are gone. (Its that brown thing looking into the stock in the above pictures) So [LIST] [*]Attach metal thing (I wish I knew what its called) [*]Figure out battery issue [/LIST]

[QUOTE=Sonydude;24003879] [*]Figure out battery issue [/QUOTE] Wire it to the outside

[QUOTE=Mr 23;24004099]Wire it to the outside[/QUOTE] Better, small lipo batteries inside the stock.

[QUOTE=xXEnder007Xx;24004145]Better, small lipo batteries inside the stock.[/QUOTE] I really don't want a lipo. I figure the higher voltage would require me to upgrade the gearbox. I stray away from them. (and they are incredibly expensive) What lipo models do you have in mind?

7.2 lipo gives about the same voltage as a 9.6 but is lots smaller.

Tell you the truth lipos can be extremely cheap, about the same price as any other NiMH battery. The cheap balancing chargers work fine too. I run 11.1v lipos on all my guns, cheap chinese guns included and I have never had a problem, nor have I had insanely crazy ROF on them either. You might try something like this. [url]http://www.airsoftpost.com/product_info.php?cPath=31_171&products_id=31131[/url] I don't know the exact dimensions of your stock but Evike is kind enough to label the dimensions of the battery. You'll have to do some digging around. I know a buffer tube battery should work though. [url]http://www.airsoftpost.com/product_info.php?cPath=31_171&products_id=29681[/url]

When I saw the title I thought you were making some sort of Eco friendly G3. But this is just as good.

I finally got the stock on there. No wiggle at all, and it comfortably holds a stick type battery of 7in by 3/4 dia. [img_thumb]http://a.imageshack.us/img716/1736/dsc00401b.jpg[/img_thumb] Now I have 2 Large batteries with out a home.

Oh god, that spacing between the body and stock would drive me insane.

yeah me too, hooray for ocd :respek:

Well now that it's pointed out, that space is [B]all[/B] I notice. [editline]01:18PM[/editline] Holy shit I have that same blanket but in blue [editline]4:31pm[/editline] ohmigod my mom actually has that white one

Wow thats nice. I got a JG G3 a few months ago and still wish to play a real match with it.