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Originally Posted by Ricochet
I have a gen 1 PTW M16 A3. I had it modified to handle the newer style cylinders. It has my original 2007 mechbox from the gun I smashed. It's on it's second set of boards, and second motor. After so many years, that's a fairly low cost to keep it running. If you take care of it, the only thing to worry about is to have your motor rewound. But then it goes for years.
I can verify that the Final Evolution (2012) guns are superior in performance to the prior models. Not by much, but the difference is noticeable.
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Wow a Gen1? mine lasted 3 games before the boards go crazy on me, it would auto fire without pulling the trigger and eventually dead
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Originally Posted by m102404
I actually feel a bit of survivors guilt that my kit/scavange built 2007 upgrade to 2008 PTW has actually had zero issues once it was working (side selector board needed to be replaced where the little micro switch was gummed up, motor worked fine, I modded the hopup...nothing else to do). The motor has been going strong but I think it's showing it's age/wear and tear. Sum total of issues I've had with it are mags that can't feed fast enough in full auto (doesn't really matter to me) and a broken piston rack when there was a bad jam and the piston didn't go forward before the sector came around.
I can't pull the trigger faster in in semi to really notice a difference with an FCC build. I think it's a faster shot cycle...but the difference is beyond what I could need.
I'm on the fence on whether to scoop up a good deal on a 2008 and mod/upgrade it as necessary with FCC parts...or to go with what basically amounts to a tuned and QC'd build (IMO) from FCC.
Don't need it because my PTW is still trucking along...but it's an attractive lure out there to start another build.
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It's still a freak of nature on how your PTW, made of differents parts last a whole lot longer than my factory QC POS