A&K Masada woes.

[sleepyzombie]

Hey guys. I bought an A&K Masada a few months ago now. Started out with some small issue. But as we all know, small issues leads to big problems.

I arrived home from college to for break and finally got to see it. I had ordered it weeks before and hadn't gotten to see it. So I quickly open it up, and charge up a battery. As soon as I got the battery into the rifle, my first problem arose. the rifle never fires full auto. It can only fire in semi-automatic bursts even when on full auto. however, when I took the handgaurd off and held the battery at a specific angle, the rifle would fire full auto. this made me realize that I seemingly have some wiring issues.

Unfortunately, the rifle was well past GI's return policy already. So I figured I'd just deal with it. A few days later, two friends came by to take a look at it. One airsofts, the other does not. My airsofting friend takes notice of the problem. I tell him eh.. At which point I pull the charging handle back.. But it locks at the half-way point. It won't go back all the way. I walk off the a second.. Only to return to see my non-airsofting friend pulling on the charging handle with all his strength. And he pulled it all the way back. and now it will only stay in the back half of the assembly..

So... here I am. 310$ out. I have no clue how to fix my charging handle, and no idea how to re-wire a rifle (if that's even the problem). Can anyone help? I don't know what parts the A&K masada will take.. And I can't buy anything out of fear of this thing becoming a bigger money sink.

Any help is greatly appreciated. And I'm sorry if I'm in the wrong place.

[cqbr]

The fake bolt issue can be solved by splitting the receivers and wiggling it free. I remember that happened with the ACR I owned way back when.

If you got an instruction manual with the gun, it should show you how to do it. If not, Google it. (The take down that is)

Take the gun to someone with a bit more experience for the re-wiring.

(Unless you know you want to learn and can accept that fact that you may end up doing more harm than good that is)

[Dev]

Seeing as how you admit that you don't have a ton of electrical experience with airsoft guns I'd HIGHLY recommend just getting a hold of one of the tried and trusted techs that frequent MiA. Although it can be fun (though when starting out, has the potential to become very frustrating and sometimes costly) it may just be better to spend 20-30 bucks, if that to have someone do the work for you and know that it will be done right.

It cost me $150 to replace a motherboard on a computer I was building a couple months back because I bent 1 pin on the CPU socket when I was sure I was putting everything together correctly. Moral of the story, get someone who you are positive knows what they are doing to do it for you and if you do have the desire to learn, watch what they do and ask them to show you the right way to do it, if they are willing. You'll be better off for it.

-Dan