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A couple months ago I was working on this local kids Lucid AK-47 because of "really low fps" as he described it. One of those Buyairsoft clear-soft guns of course.
Took it all apart and it seemed to be a normal V3 gearbox, and of 'alright' build quality. Now, I stripped the whole gearbox down and looked through the cylinder because there was a A LOT of this... goopy liquid coming out. I figured it was just a lot of factory lube, but I was incorrect.
There were at least 3 or 4 dead ants and a very large queen(?) ant inside the cylinder head where the nozzle would go and around the cylinder itself. I'm actually surprised they didn't just fly out the barrel with every shot, but the combination of lube and this goop must have kept them in place the whole time. This kid just leaves his airsoft guns laying around outside from what I've been told by his parents.
Cleaned the gearbox out, lubed it back up and the gun shot just fine for a Lucid gun (280 fps or so).
Just a side-note, TM (and others of that style) V3 gearboxes with the fuse that fits down near the hop-up DO NOT work in Lucid AKs. They seem to come stock with a fuse that sits not in the receiver itself but in the stock, attached with large tamiya connectors instead of the standard small ones.
Really, don't even bother with Lucid if you know what's good for you.
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