Yes, another one of those infernal Airsoft Youtubers…
BUT WAIT!
This one isn’t about headshots and kill counts, but Informing, Educating and Entertaining (50 points if you get that reference!) fellow airsofters, by documenting my many cock ups and projects on the tech table, deep dive reviews of kit, loadout overviews and even gameplay analysis videos!
“So if you’re a youtuber why do you have a website?” I hear you ask! Well, I don’t just make videos, I make physical things too! And that’s what this website is for, so you can see the various products I make and you can purchase!
You can find a everything I make over on the English Kiwi Designs page.
The large majority of flexible bayonets available tend to be rubber cast, as as such are either too floppy, too stiff or, weirdly, a mixture of both! These rubber cast ones also tend not to have a locking mechanism on them so don’t stay firmly attached to the rifle.
That’s why I’ve been making 3D printed bayonets, with hard plastic hilts and working locking mechanisms, but flexible blades that hold their shape well, but bend when needed!
Those of you who follow the channel will no doubt know that I may be a fan on the SA80 platform. I guess I’m a sucker for punishment! So when the army announced it was adopting a new version, the A3, I sprung into action designing a kit to allow airsoft SA80s to be converted to match!
After interest in the prototype started piling up I teamed up with Super5ives to produce and distribute the EK3 kit. These kits are available over on Super5ives store and made here in the UK from aluminium at a CNC house.
Shortly after the EK3 kits became available the Army did something, well frankly, weird. They listened to the soldiers using the A3 and made some changes… shocking, I know! primarily switching the mounting solution on the handguard from HKey to M-Lok.
So I cued the music and re-span the EK3 design to produce the EK3M, which currently is the only kit available to build yourself a modern Airsoft L85A3! If you want one jump on over the EK3M page to find out more and get your order placed.
The ICS SA80 series of rifles are extremely popular and I absolutely love my LSW, however I wished someone would design a better hop up unit for it, so that’s precisely what I did!
My new hop unit drops in place of the old unit and replaces the side adjust ratchet wheel with a rotary dial that applies direct vertical pressure through the nub onto the hop up rubber.
