Maximizing BASR Sniper rifle before upgrading

Finally, i can get back on posting, this week was kind of busy one for me.

By the way, I have a short story as background for my topic today.
There was one of my skirmish friend whose began building his BASR plattform around year ago.
I can say this guy capable of throwing some serious cash to on his project gun.
So, he was building a APS96 / Well MB01, and unfortunately ended up spending over 8 mil Rupiah  (around US$ 700 at that time), and in my opinion it`s a bit too much.
There`s a day when we gather together before skirmishing for a "field-zero". In short i ask this friend to lend me his rifle for a couple shots (i was curios of what 700$ gun can do). After shooting last shot from it`s mag, nothing impressed me, yes maybe fps was HOT, but accuracy are lame, even on par with my cheap Chinese clone VSR. Yes, he also tried my rifle as well.

Even though he didn`t said it directly, i can tell he agreed also that the setup didn`t work as effective as amount of cash he boasted he threw on the rifle. Branded parts and expensive rifle DOES NOT guarantee maximum performance if you don`t know how to set up your rifle.

So, let`s find out what to do to maximize your rifle.

1. CLEANING UP & REGREASING
(If your working with Japan rifle, just skip, and go to no.2). Chinese manufacturer, usually overdo lubing their guns, most of ACM guns i purchased got it`s internal soaked with unknown lube.
So, for me it`s a must to disassemble the whole gun, degrease ( you can use alcohol or other degreaser), clean up, and finally regreasing all of parts. I use silicone oil for cylinder assembly, lithium grease on trigger box, receiver,and screw holes. Use a VERY THIN coat of lube in cylinder area to prevent fps inconsistency, then you can go crazy and put as many as you wish on trigger assembly.
Please make sure NOT to lube nozzle tip, hop up & barrel area even a bit to (again) prevent shot inconsistency and  slipping bb`s.

2. CHECK HOP UP SYSTEM
This part determine your rifle`s accuracy and consistency, so while doing maintenance, cleaning hop system can be put on priority list. Regularly check hop up bucking, make sure its not torn, not oily, not dirty (you  can soap wash it if necessary).
Peek inside your inner barrel, make sure its clean and shiny (ram it with cleaning rod if not).
Check your hop arm, make sure it`s working properly.
And lastly do multiple check on barrel-chamber-hop-up alignment while reassembling

3. CHECK ON COMPRESSION
Often ignored, but compression problem can cause rifle to perform poorly even with expensive upgrade parts. For you guys who doesn`t know, you can do compression test on cylinder by just pushing the piston forward while closing nozzle tip with your finger (doing this without main spring is easier), if piston can be pushed forward easily, then you have a leak. To fix this, you can either replace o-rings on piston or/and cylinder head. You can experiment with different size of o-rings for best result. Lubing also improves smoothness of operation and airseal on cylinder, personally i use 100% silicone oil with a very light amount (can also experiment with different viscosity).

4. DIY MODS
There are so many DIY upgrade that you can do for very cheap cost, such as Inner barrel polishing, Cylinder head polishing, Custom hop-up nub, Spring guide ring, Custom barrel spacer, etc. Details and guide can be found also on this blog (some are still on progress)

Well, thats all for this post, so if you are just started with your rifle, do these things to maximize it, before throwing cash on it.
Hope it`s useful, see again on next post!