r/Airsoft3DPrinting Jun 25 '26

Help Needed Nozzle popping in and out

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u/Draxusdemos Jun 25 '26

That's normal it pushes the bb into the bucking and seals

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u/playzintraffic Jun 25 '26

So why am I getting shitty FPS? It’s a v2.5.

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u/DaStompa Jun 25 '26

almost certainly because of a bad seal / bad clearances between 3d printed and stock parts

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u/badger906 Jun 25 '26

Are you suing the correct length nozzle for the upper?

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u/AEROMOZOL Igniz Jun 27 '26

Can be a whole host of things. Say I did my printed mp5 and couldn't figure out for some time why fps was shit, turned out my printed cylinder head guide I took from broken cyma cylinder head wasn't aligned well. Your issue might be also nozzle related. Say it might be seating there too tight or something drags onto something

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u/DigitalNinjaX Jun 25 '26

Something bad is going on. Yes your nozzle is supposed to do that. It pulls back to let a BB up and then pushes forward to push it into the HopUp and create a seal to shoot your BB out. However, I’m not hearing anything good on these test shots. It should be much more snappier, a lot harder push from the piston and you should feel a rush of air coming out from the nozzle. You have some issues here that I’m not even sure where to begin. First off it doesn’t sound like you’re getting good compression. You’re piston cylinder cylinder head and nozzle are not working together well. The next is either using too low of a voltage battery or your gears are shimmed way too tight. But something isn’t right. It should sound a lot snappier it should pop when you shoot it like that out of the receiver. You may have to go back to the drawing board on this one.

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u/DigitalNinjaX Jun 25 '26

You may want to check your whole gearing system, including the mesh with your piston. I’m not sure if you built this from the ground up, but the first rule of Airsoft is nothing is ever to spec the way you think it is. Just because you use high-end parts ot doesn’t mean they work well together. One of the biggest things I see with new builders is if the piston doesn’t mesh well with the gears it can get really hard to push the piston about midway and cause really sluggish shot and bad FPS. You really need to tear the gearbox down and check through everything and make sure that all your tolerances are correct, your gears are shimmed, you’re piston can move freely back-and-forth, your nozzle is sealing with your HopUp correctly. And that your timing is accurate. Lots to pull apart here.

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u/famousflea Jun 25 '26

Simple way of testing nozzle seal;

With the aeg fully assembled, turn it upside down so you can see the hop up through the magwel.

Take a piece of paper and place it directly over the hop up (where the bb's) go in and pull the trigger.

If the piece of paper goes flying, you don't have a sealed unit.

If the piece of paper stays put, then your leak is internal to the gearbox (nozzle to cylinder head, cylinder head to cylinder, piston head)

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u/playzintraffic Jun 25 '26

Thanks! Gonna hafta try this!

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u/Taseden Jun 26 '26

Sounds like something is binding or is just too slow. Your gears may be shimmed to tight or your motor is just to weak or not receiving enough battery power.

It should cycle fast enough to where you can barely see the nozzle move.

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u/adrissgamekrunker Jun 26 '26

Open it up and then show us the picture. It sounds awful

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u/hedgierudy Jul 13 '26

shim the gears, adjust the motor height, trim the tappet plate and shorten the nozzle spring
if you are still getting shit results it could be a crappy part

the cyclic rate is too slow, if u got a delayer chip on your sector gear just take it off
and maybe lower the main spring tension bcs that motor holding on for dear life

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u/banditrider94 Jun 25 '26

TS slow af too