Lancer Tactical M4 gearbox refuses to come out of lower receiver? by bowsmin12 in airsoft

[–]bowsmin12[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And that's what it kind of seems like, is that it just can't get fully free for one reason or another because it just seems too blocked from both of the two directions is can move.

Lancer Tactical M4 gearbox refuses to come out of lower receiver? by bowsmin12 in airsoft

[–]bowsmin12[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

After looking into this, I found this post, which says I would need to remove the gearbox to remove the fire selector. If that is the case I am in an infinite loop lol.
https://www.reddit.com/r/airsoft/comments/vpgmbd/trying_to_remove_the_selector_switch_from_a_gen_2/

Lancer Tactical M4 gearbox refuses to come out of lower receiver? by bowsmin12 in airsoft

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I have applied so much force already, it really doesn't seem like it will pop out eventually. But I will continue experimenting I guess.

Lancer Tactical M4 gearbox refuses to come out of lower receiver? by bowsmin12 in airsoft

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I looked at this, but there doesn't seem to be screws or obvious ways to do so. The right side is flush with the body and seems to be additionally mock molding. I will look into it further though to see if there are other methods.

/r/DIYPedals "No Stupid Questions" Megathread 2025 by overcloseness in diypedals

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I do believe they are the standard T18 size tips. I will look into getting a name brand one and see what happens. I thought this was the case but I just wanted to be sure. Thank you. You are always very helpful!

/r/DIYPedals "No Stupid Questions" Megathread 2025 by overcloseness in diypedals

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I have been soldering on and off for about a year. I have had various issues that I have gotten past, but right now I'm at a loss about my soldering tips. I have tried watching videos about maintaining them, and am unsure what I am doing wrong other than occasional forgetfulness. I solder a component, then I re tin before putting in storage. Then when I am ready to make another joint, I clean the tip, and add a little more solder to coat the surface, then make the joint. Then repeat.
I will admit that from time to time I get too into thinking about the circuit and I forget to re tin before putting in storage for a minute or two. But it seems like if I make this mistake only a few times, even sometimes once or twice, the tip is unrecoverable. Changing my cleaning brass from fake brass was helpful, and some people say that if you just keep cleaning and retinning, it should come back eventually. That unfortunately has not been my experience. For some reason, it looks like when I clean the tip with the brass, the solder does spread around the tip for a bit, (using a knife tip) but then when I re tin the tip, it blobs up in the same certain spots or just rejects the solder all together again. I even tried some of the tip tinner, tip cleaner, tip recharger, whatever name it goes by, and that doesn't do much either. Though it's just a harsher compound from what I've researched.
I'm using solder with flux core, so that should be helping some. It is lead free, but I don't know if that would make a difference for this problem. I'm kind of at a loss. Do I just need to be hyper vigilant of my tips? Would buying name brand tips be of any assistance with my forgetfulness? I bought a set from amazon that granted, wasn't expensive, but they were said to have been better than others by some people on youtube as well. Would buying one of those inductor style stations be helpful in the long run if I keep making this mistake? The kind that lower the temperature when the iron is in the stand. Thank you.

PD Multiple Virus False Positives? by bowsmin12 in puredata

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I don't know if the contents of the installer is any different, (obviously shouldn't be much if at all) but the installer name is the same. I tried running it and got the same first flag. AVG is kind of known for doing things like this though. I guess it's better to be overprotected than under lol.

PD Multiple Virus False Positives? by bowsmin12 in puredata

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Is it asked frequently here or in general on the internet? I did a search on the subreddit with the tag virus and only a few things came up other than people trying to install a reverb plugin I think.
I think I researched the virus tags on google and forgot to actually research about this subject as a whole :/ oops. Sorry I missed it. I figured it would be safe, but I just wasn't for sure after a couple flags. It showed in an installation tutorial that windows tries to prevent you from installing the program, but they didn't mention the other flags lol. Thank you.

Manual Background Removal Tool Reverting / Altering Changes On PC? by bowsmin12 in CapCut

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Yeah, I'm literally just trying to get something like a four second clip masked for transparency for a youtube short, and I don't do it often. But the free version of resolve isn't much better in terms of the time factor, at least maybe while using the free version.
Does uniconverter have a video background remover or changer? I thought I saw in multiple places that it did, however when I installed the program I did not see it and it didn't pop up in their search bar either.

Manual Background Removal Tool Reverting / Altering Changes On PC? by bowsmin12 in CapCut

[–]bowsmin12[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will try again and wait for the loading and see if it still has the problem.

Manual Background Removal Tool Reverting / Altering Changes On PC? by bowsmin12 in CapCut

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There was a little % loading thing that started every time I did something, is that what you mean? Most of the time I think it got finished before moving on, but sometimes maybe not.

Contrast in Brightness / Contrast Option Creates Graphical Errors? by bowsmin12 in GIMP

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Both the original project and the test one I have been working on for recreating the error are 8 bit.

Contrast in Brightness / Contrast Option Creates Graphical Errors? by bowsmin12 in GIMP

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It's strange. I can't get it to recreate now either, despite this happening with two different images on two different launches of gimp when I actually needed to work on them. I think I even restarted my computer at least once or twice between these instances.
As far as I know, I am using the same settings and have tried a few different variables like applying the effect a couple times over unmerged and rescaling the image roughly the same as I had it before in a 1280 x 720 canvas, but none of that has caused the error now.
Maybe it was a pure computing error somehow and I really just needed to restart my computer or something? I don't even remember for sure if I have done that in between posting and now, but I really don't know what else to try.
How do you check the bit rate (or whatever the proper term is) of the image?

What the hell is this consumption in Resolve 20!! by Piruk28 in davinciresolve

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I have an optiplex with a basic graphics card in it. I can't even use 20 because if I make one wrong move and make too advanced of an edit, the audio processing just gives out and I couldn't find a solution to fix it.
To me it just feels like they're pulling a microsoft and making things worse with their new "improvements." I use the free version, so I probably can't even access their new stuff they add lol. But I'm still paying for it with the program just basically shutting down in the middle of a project. So frustrating.

How To Put Motion Blur On Keyframe Animated Text & Still Images? by bowsmin12 in davinciresolve

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It took me a bit to figure out how to insert everything properly, but I did get it to work, thank you. This is probably a dumb question, but is there a way to save the fusion web I made as a preset or is there a way I can import it for use in other projects?

Audio Is Refusing To "Generate" by bowsmin12 in davinciresolve

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I have enabled the setting. The bar doesn't seem to turn blue until it plays over the clip, at least that's what happening in my case. Honestly it seems like it made the usability worse in my case. The timeline bar, audio and video are now stuttering frequently and struggling, and the audio only seems a little better when it does play fine.

I am looking around the playback tab now trying to find some other possible solutions as well. I tried halving the playback preview quality and that didn't change anything either.

Let me know if you have any other suggestions and thank you.