M24 Feeding Issue/Hammer Issue ???

[Dahm]

Basically, the problem is this:

I'm shooting a Tanaka M24 SWS. I have the mag in the rifle, full of gas (fresh fill), and I cock it. BB goes into the chamber. I pull the trigger but nothing happens. No click, no gas sound, no bb exiting the barrel.

What I have to do is re-cock the bolt and unfortunately allow two bb's to go through to fix the problem. Then its back to normal, at least for a while (maybe 6-10 rounds). This happens with both of my mags.

Has anyone ever experienced this before, and know how to fix it?


If it helps, I have a King Arms/2Roy Hop Up Conversion to use VSR barrels coming on its way.

[cqbr]

You should probably take apart your bolt to make sure there's still enough tension on the little spring in there.

When it becomes too compressed/weak, it won't cock back and doesn't allow spring to strike the mag hard enough and let the gas out.

[Dahm]

Hmm, I'll definitely take a look at that because that sounds about right. It doesn't even make a "click" sound when I pull the trigger so its a high candidate for success.

EDIT:

Well, I checked the spring. Its strong as ever. I removed the two flathead screws on the bottom of the bolt, and moved the action of the spring in and out. It was very, very strong. So unfortunately, that's probably not it.

Any other ideas anyone?


EDIT 2:

I think Kender helped me figure it out. I'll revive this thread if the problem persists.

THE SOLUTION: (Pending true testing) There is a small hex screw on the bottom end of the bolt, and it really needs to be tightened in order for the bolt to be able to allow the gas to be released and fire the bb.

Testing: Yeah, it works now. Back to 100% normality. Thank you Kender!

[BoredKender]

Glad we could fix it.

Moving to Quick Fixes.