TM shotgun feed problem

[Shottie]

hey. i recently bought a tm m3 shorty and i loved it for the day and a half i had it working. now it wont fire, and from what i read its from some sort of feed problem. does anyone know how to fix this? thanks in advance. (i though i'd seen this problem before, but i searched and couldnt find anything.)

[Fat Tony]

You should have posted this in the springer forum. :rolleyes:

[DeltaSniper]

and farmore importantly, probbaly been a bit more specific. Describe the problem and only then can we help you.

[Clayden]

Yeah,
it's a general problem with namely the M3. Is the problem that the cocking handle won't lock after a pump (to where you end up charging about 9 bbs into the barrels before you're able to fire)? If so, you've encounter (dun dun DUN!) in "INFAMOUS BENELLI JAM (echo echo...), in which case you're going to have to find Inferno's hompage and look up how to disassemble your shotgun and fix it (he's written ALL about this problem).

There's no easy fix unless you feel like experimenting with white lithium grease, so either your SOL or you've got your work cut out for you. I'll look up his homepage (since asking others always seems to be too much) and post it here if I find it again.

[Shottie]

thank you all. ill do springers next time. i found inferno's page so it does look like i have my work cut out for me...

[Dax]

About 2 years ago I had the same problem. I did a complete search and I pretty much found only Inferno's site. I talked to him and was gonna send him my gun but then I figured out he lived in Hawaii. I have probably disassembled the gun 20 times, and it is not an easy one to do so. I tried gluing parts, making parts, and nothing worked. With the recent improvements in production of TM M3 parts, i say order new ones. WGC has some parts and I would suggest doing a search.

P.S., if you are gonna actually try and dissassemble it and fix it, it is very very stressful. If you get frustrated easily, i say take the loss, and sell it to someone who wants to fix it.

[Clayden]

Hmm...
I just waxed my interiors with white lithium grease (as mentioned before) and fed it through a few times and the gun never jammed again. Of course the shotgun's effective range has completely dropped off of the "skirmish-scale" (meaning it's not ripe for skirmishing anymore).

Basically the hop-up lip either broke or has become ravaged due to feeding problems. There seems to be little to no hop-up on it at all anymore. BBs drop straight out of the sky at about 30 ft. The original range of the gun wasn't all that great, but still... the grease helped to prevent the jamming from continuing, but the hop-up lip has yet to be repaired.

One of these days when I'm sick of looking at the gun laying around, I'll venture into it's internals and see what I can do. Until then my M3 is nothing more than a 4 ft paper-weight.

[Death-Head]

Does the SPAS 12 ever get this problem?

[Clayden]

It does (or so I've heard - namely from Inferno) but not nearly as often as the M3. For one reason or another, the construct of the SPAS-12 seems a little better, in that you just don't see that many SPAS-12s jamming like the M3s do.

[Kendodude]

Ah yes... my glorious glorious days of my dear dear Spas...
such wonderful days, such wonderful days...
but death is a saddening thing, for then depression has more power to move mountians than you can possibly imagine.
no eating, no sleeping, no more twinkle in the eye as in the past before in those bright bright days.
then you try and replace it with something else. either not as good or even better. yet that won't fix the problem of what your own human emotion found so special. the candle is lit, then the wax melts and the flickering flame goes out... the history to the present... gone in such a moment.

that is how i feel about the SPAS. MY SPAS
for I had such a problem where it was not firing and i tried to fix it myself and it is completely stripped from all of it such glory. cept for the fact that the seam came out of place. i could've sent it to Precision airsoft but i didn't know at the time. shottie, i hope that your Toukyo Maruii Shotgun will be able to live. live life to it's fullest.

Now i sold off the rear grips and all my shells for a Gas Sig P226. that cannot replace such emotion. not even using an AEG can replace such fun and danger put together.

The SPAS-12 was such a good gun, a good gun
and it made me make some biceps

[Dax]

its not the hop up, its the piston, a bb gets inbetween a part and breaks the plastic off offsetting the piston and where it plugs into. just not getting enough air pressure.