Magazine Trouble

ok thanks alot! I've looked at it, but i'm scared of breaking it.

Hm....yeah, I'm looking at the mag right now, It's gonna be tricky, but I think I may be able to figure it out. Tell me, When your shooting, and only about 9 BBs come out, and the you take the mag out, and look into the main chamber, (Where the BBs go after you wind them, NOT where you load them) what do you see? can you see the BBs stuck somwhere in the middle? somewhere near the top? Or are they all the way down there and you cannot see them?

Right now, just by looking at it, I would say dissasembly will most likely have to do with those two "pushpins" near the top of the mag. they are small, it looks like you may be able to tap them out with an ice pick or something skinny. I'll work on it, and maybe try to take it apart tomorrow.

Don't risk your mag for me. anyways, i was thinking it may not be the mag, but the gun. When i take the mag out at 9 shots when it doesn't shoot anymore, there is a bb in the chamber as well as one that falls out, and the bbs are at the top of the mag. I'm thinking it may be my gun that has the problem right now. Know any good guide sites to take the thompson apart?

Well i wouldn't want to exactly take it apart until i absolutely know what the problem is.

I would try to find a troubleshooting guide online first.

thats what i'm looking for right now.

ooohhhh wow. Thats a biiiig step there. Do your other mags work well in it? And yeah, If the BBs are near the top, then it is possible that it may be the gun and not the mag. But I'm not sure how to take it apart, maybe try:
www.Mechbox.com

If it's your gun the problem would be in the hop-up. Is the gun just totally not shooting? Or is it dry firing? You might need a new bucking.

sticks

It will shoot, but sometimes it won't shoot any bbs, and then after like 4 dry fires then it will fire 1 bb, then it will dry fire again... etc. etc. the mag still seems to "unwind" but there doesn't seem much hope except to get a new one. I'm going to look at it today, as i'm curious whats inside, also because i want to fix this. I'll pay special attention to the hop up though.

Yeah, man. Mine did the EXACT same thing....I don't THINK It's the gun, But as long as your extra careful, I guess taking it apart can't be too bad of an idea.....

Did you lube you magwell? Sometimes one mag will work but another from the same company won't. I would look into your hop-up again. Lube it if everything check out and fire it again. You will have feeding problems if you don't lube your hop-up.

sticks

I'm doing that right now, and i took everything apart actually and cleaned it, regreased. i'm not sure if the magazine works now, but my only problem right now is that i think i may have stripped the little hex screws on my selector switches, so i'm troubleshooting that right now.

Alright, i finally took apart the mag. I took some pliers to the top of the metal casing, so i could bring out the actual mechanics. From what i'm seeing, the gear that latches on the bbs to spin them, gets stuck on bbs or just gets stuck randomly. i have put silicone oil on it a bunch of times, it doesn't help. Please help, anyone!

buy a new mag...thats really all i can think of, because fixing that one would probably be too tricky...

Probably, but since they are 30 bucks a pop, and i was wanting some other airsoft stuff first, i'm going to try messing with it for one more day.

I guess i should talk. I succesfully got DSL version of Linux on a old panasonic toughbook, but that is another discussion for another time...

A little tip, using the Silicon Spray is great, just don't go using a whole lot of it, if you do, sooner or later it is going to end up in your HOP-UP and you will start to see your BB´s( not Bullets ) going every place except where you want them.

Oil in your Hop-Up will not allow the Hop-Up rubber to do its job, the BB´s will slide out of the Hop-Up, instead of being spun out. This Spinning( Drall ) is what causes our Airsoft Weapons to be so Accurate.