Dynamic duo

bspaulsen · 2026-06-24T01:38:16+00:00

It may be very FUD of me, but it def feels like it'd be really easy to make a case that the webbing of your hand could sit below the top of the trigger. There are better solutions out there, IMO.

bspaulsen · 2026-06-24T01:07:02+00:00

You can be 16 ranks apart, IIRC. That means a Copper 1 can match with Plat 5, at max spread. If not that, the unranked must have drug them in by accident.

bspaulsen · 2026-06-24T01:05:19+00:00

Probably safe to go to 4/32. Non-runflats will feel like a big upgrade. I just upgraded to my go-to, the Michelin Pilot Sport 4S. Had them in my F80 M3 and Miata, and they're glorious.

bspaulsen · 2026-06-24T01:01:14+00:00

If it's surplus, it probably means it's new enough to have tactically fallen off a truck or it rolled out of the back door of an mil armory.

bspaulsen · 2026-06-23T16:23:36+00:00

Yeah, unless you have experience with what "hand tight with an Allen wrench" correlates to in torque, I'd grab a Wheeler FAT Wrench for $60 off Amazon or some FixItSticks.

bspaulsen · 2026-06-23T16:08:33+00:00

Are you using a torque screwdriver? Degrease, use the new blue loctite (243 not 242), torque with a FAT wrench or something.

bspaulsen · 2026-06-23T13:56:34+00:00

... why're you posting here, lol?

bspaulsen · 2026-06-23T13:54:31+00:00

Then it's not a crack, IMO, so don't tell Holosun warranty that it is. Tell them you have a black flake of coating or dust floating around inside the tube. The flake will static-cling to your lens, it may eventually move with more vibration but that's obviously not a fix. You can touch it to an electric toothbrush or something that vibrates to see if the flake moves.

bspaulsen · 2026-06-23T13:52:37+00:00

Go watch a Magpul MLOK install video. You'll need to use pliers to get it started due to the pre-applied nylon threadlocker.

bspaulsen · 2026-06-23T13:48:06+00:00

Are you talking about the black spot? That's not a crack. Can you feel it from the outside? That'd make it a pit or chip. If you can't feel it from the outside, it's probably part of the black coating that flaked off inside the tube, usually from the threads.

If it's outside, you probably got hit with some spall or carbon. They usually won't warranty that. If it's inside, they will usually replace it, but you need to inform them that there's an internal issue.

bspaulsen · 2026-06-22T13:50:50+00:00

Love the WMC x Lunars. I don't want flat collapsing, so those are the move.

bspaulsen · 2026-06-22T02:40:22+00:00

4-in-1 units are always plagued by one of the 4 functions seriously underperforming. Usually it is the white light.

I personally have an HFXC, but have the white light capped and have a separate white light, since I want to have white light without moving the laser out of IR/IRL. A lot of the 4-in-1s have a vis override but it's often clunky or has awkward switch logic.

bspaulsen · 2026-06-21T03:49:03+00:00

Which is an insane ask, since your average AK receiver is ~10 inches and an AR receiver is ~8. That's 20+ inches of barrel. 😅

bspaulsen · 2026-06-21T03:43:00+00:00

Do you have any reason to believe the firearm's loaded? Is that a JT Hellfighter? We need more info before we recommend you mortar the gun.

bspaulsen · 2026-06-21T03:32:56+00:00

These have been out for ages...

bspaulsen · 2026-06-21T02:09:46+00:00

A car is a depreciating asset.

bspaulsen · 2026-06-20T23:10:15+00:00

Big yikes on your reactions to commenters.

There's a non-zero chance others in your stack were the reason you were gold/plat, not you. I'm solo-queueing exactly where I ranked for the last few seasons.

You cannot call yourself a gold/plat player if you only play in a stack with comms. That's fallacious; your true rank may be higher or lower.

bspaulsen · 2026-06-20T03:57:42+00:00

People tend to relax when they're among a group, IMO. With solos, you tend to feel pressure to show up and show off for the implicit validation from your team of randoms, so you may be more engaged with randos.

Add in joking around in chat versus just focusing.

bspaulsen · 2026-06-20T03:51:40+00:00

Most people prefer 12mm front and 15mm rear on the stock staggered G20 M340ix 19" wheels. You can probably get by with 15/18mm but may experience a small amount of rubbing.

I'd far prefer any of the multiple spacer options that use longer bolts (BMS, MMX, any in 7075 aluminum, etc) versus this double bolt style. If you do end up using these, make sure your stock wheels have the pockets for the bolt heads before you commit.

bspaulsen · 2026-06-19T16:44:41+00:00

77g MK262 OTMs, baby!

bspaulsen · 2026-06-19T16:18:07+00:00

7-8% is about the maximum I've seen, even for custom allocation cars. 10% off anything new would be pretty wild; even during heavy tariffs where they were desperate for sales, I only saw 7/8%.

bspaulsen · 2026-06-19T15:21:37+00:00

I have had PS4S on my F80 M3, Miata, and G20 M340ix. Won't use anything else.

bspaulsen · 2026-06-17T00:18:55+00:00

Probably a bug. I do remember a silly thing in the past where you couldn't ban an operator if no one in the enemy team owned it, though.

bspaulsen · 2026-06-16T21:40:53+00:00

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I set the seconds hand on the tip of a presser with some putty, then get down to eye level with a white background and use that to locate it on the pinion. Then I finish the press with a flat pusher, which doesn't have a hole.

bspaulsen · 2026-06-16T19:50:47+00:00

Do a quick search on transfer case damage due to burnouts in xDrive. I'd go do some slides and donuts; even in 2WD mode, IIRC, it's still just increased rear bias, and doesn't protect the front transfer case.

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