Today I acquired...........

[500e]

Hmmmm

 

[Gragson]

40°C over here today.
Planning on finishing my setup during the summer and restart maybe in late September or early October.
Fortunately I'll be playing with other guys during the night.
Wich would be a lot of fun, having NVG and IR illumination and pointer on my gun.

In a few weeks I'm off to the Balkans on work, my host (mate) has setup some "range" play time with various hardware, looking at the forecast that will be hot also.

 

[Memmeddu]

Could be worse, you're not having to do it for real

Seriously I can't even imagine how soldier do in middle east or in the jungle.
Now my camo was issued to the Italian army in Iraq and Afghanistan so the real deal.
Maybe hotter temperatures but not as much humidity we have in Sardinia.
But that's really not as close to reality yet.
Replicas weight the exact same (3.5kg for the AR and 1.1kg for the Beretta) but the carrier is just fabric no plates in it, the helmet just plastic, the magazines even fully loaded don't even reach half of the weight of the real steel, maybe the pistol ones do.
Plus all the other gear like frags, knife, communication devices, and a bunch of things we don't really need to carry for airsoft like ir markers etc.
I've calculated a weight limit of 15kg in total for my setup.
That's according to what said by an ex Delta Force officer on a podcast, he set the limit up to 30% of the bodyweight just for the plate carrier for the operators he was leading in combat.
I'll not reach the 30% for everything including replicas but it's insane how soldiers actually carry over 50% of their weight in equipment no matter what weather conditions

 

[Jaeger_S2k]

Fortunately I'll be playing with other guys during the night.
Wich would be a lot of fun, having NVG and IR illumination and pointer on my gun.

 

[Memmeddu]

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I'm now afraid to have written something that sounds a little strange (can't say the right word cause it wouldn't be politically correct)

 

[Jaeger_S2k]

I'm now afraid to have written something that sounds a little strange (can't say the right word cause it wouldn't be politically correct)

You know I'm only pulling your leg, but I couldn't resist. You're braver than me to come on here and use, as eloquently as you do, a second language.

When I was in Italy, with family (Sister-in-law lives there). When asked if I wanted a drink, I replied. Tota Destra Poi (All right then).
It caused considerable laughter as 3 of them are language/translators and are fluent in numerous languages.

 

[Craig-SM]

Seriously I can't even imagine how soldier do in middle east or in the jungle.
Now my camo was issued to the Italian army in Iraq and Afghanistan so the real deal.
Maybe hotter temperatures but not as much humidity we have in Sardinia.
But that's really not as close to reality yet.
Replicas weight the exact same (3.5kg for the AR and 1.1kg for the Beretta) but the carrier is just fabric no plates in it, the helmet just plastic, the magazines even fully loaded don't even reach half of the weight of the real steel, maybe the pistol ones do.
Plus all the other gear like frags, knife, communication devices, and a bunch of things we don't really need to carry for airsoft like ir markers etc.
I've calculated a weight limit of 15kg in total for my setup.
That's according to what said by an ex Delta Force officer on a podcast, he set the limit up to 30% of the bodyweight just for the plate carrier for the operators he was leading in combat.
I'll not reach the 30% for everything including replicas but it's insane how soldiers actually carry over 50% of their weight in equipment no matter what weather conditions

Your probably looking at 25kg plus of equipment as a minimum, much more for longer patrols and hot weather carrying extra water.then you wonder why so many ex forces have knackered knees and backs.
You get used to being soaking wet with sweat then sand and dirt sticking to it to form a unique skin grinding paste where you don’t want to be rubbed raw. You really do appreciate clean kit after you’ve been stuck wearing it for weeks on end when you’ve not had chance to attend your personal admin

 

[Dozzer]

Big thank you to @DickyDoDah for the hoof files.

 

[Memmeddu]

You know I'm only pulling your leg, but I couldn't resist. You're braver than me to come on here and use, as eloquently as you do, a second language.

Not my language still, someone said that if you are enough confident about what you're saying who's listening will believe you are very competent even if you are actually not.
Same thing apparently happened here because I'm far from good at English
Keyboard on my phone helps a lot otherwise I'll be just butchering your language.
Without the keyboard I would probably have a 5% correct to wrong written words rateo

It caused considerable laughter as 3 of them are language/translators and are fluent in numerous languages.



Tota is probably Latin

Tota is not a word I know honestly, but I've just searched it and Google opened a page about ancient Latin engravings
Destra translate with right (meant like turn right or on the right for example)
Poi you got it as it translates with "then"
Now
All right then literally translates as "apposto allora" but sounds a lot weird too, "si grazie" "yes thanks" was the only affermative answer TBH .
Did I already mentioned Italian is a much more complex language than English?

 

[Farside]

Not sure why my phone sometimes does the completely wrong words, hell even voice typing gives me sentences that even a bottle of whisky couldn't produce!

2 more anti defibulators

I'd have thought defibulators would have been slang for polygraph machines.

 

[Farside]

Could be worse, you're not having to do it for real

"Ivan, who is the bloke in desert camo, out here?"
"I do not know, Sergei, but let's have a little fun."

 

[Kram]

That is the summer tinted safety glasses sorted then. 35 pairs.
30 pairs of the left type and 5 of the right, which also come with a pouch and cloth.
As safeties, the right type, have a better fit and wrap around, but both are good.

https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/safety-specs.144341/

 

[Craig-SM]

More Milwaukee, this time a detail sander bizarrely on the recommendations of a Festool group

 

[Craig-SM]

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That is the summer tinted safety glasses sorted then. 35 pairs.
30 pairs of the left type and 5 of the right, which also come with a pouch and cloth.
As safeties, the right type, have a better fit and wrap around, but both are good.

https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/safety-specs.144341/

No doubt a strimmer will launch something that manages to get past them

 

[Kram]

So far, nope! I've been doing quite a bit just with the left style and they give good protection.
Thats with the Makita XGT strimmer which seems to maintain a higher speed than petrol and launches anything a lot further!

 

[Maker]

Felt like Christmas unwrapping this lot. Girlfriend needs something sparkly and I need tools so we compromised.

Saw, burrs, drills, gravers triblet, drawplate (With carbide inserts ), soldering bits, ring gauges and a bit of silver to play with.

 

[Craig-SM]

So far, nope! I've been doing quite a bit just with the left style and they give good protection.
Thats with the Makita XGT strimmer which seems to maintain a higher speed than petrol and launches anything a lot further!

It's waiting patiently for the right moment and then it will pounce. Just before you go that big party is when it will launch it's attack so you can spend all night tell everyone who asks that you can't open your red swollen eye because the strimmer launched something at you with near light speed that managed to penetrate your outer defences of mask and glasses.

 

[MattF]

Girlfriend needs something sparkly

A sensible bloke would've just sprinkled some glitter on something & then spent all the money on tools.

 

[Kram]

It's waiting patiently for the right moment and then it will pounce. Just before you go that big party is when it will launch it's attack so you can spend all night tell everyone who asks that you can't open your red swollen eye because the strimmer launched something at you with near light speed that managed to penetrate your outer defences of mask and glasses.

They are not so effective however, when also wearing a chainsaw mesh visor and cutting connifer. Connifer burns! I'm yet to find any combination that will prevent saw dust in the eyes, it seems to float around until it gets you.

 

[Maker]

A sensible bloke would've just sprinkled some glitter on something & then spent all the money on tools.

The tools are useless without a project though.

I've had a little play, took some copper down to about 0.3 x 4.5mm with my rolling mill, then folded it lengthways and drew it to a 1.5mm OD tube, then formed it round and tried to silver solder it.


Clearly my little butane torch isn't up to the job, well impressed with the drawplate though. Next acquisition will be an oxygen cylinder for my proper torch...