Hot Weekend

Sunday, Jacob and I went to play at the weekend's game at ABZ. It was very hot out there and Jacob and I went back tot he safe zone to stay in the shade. His current medication has him very susceptible to hot weather and he can't really stay out in the the sun for very long. Many of the other players seemed to be thinking the same thing as most of them headed back for water and to cool off.

Even just in my camo with gloves and using the sniper rifle, it wasn't long before I was just incredibly hot. I had been using the camo netting to cover up the ominous black rifle I was using, but that only seemed to make things hotter.

I ditched the jacket and cooled off as best as I could. Jacob did the same. and we did manage to keep ourselves cool for the rest of the afternoon. Still, it was blasted hot out there with little or no breeze. Almost too hot for a game, probably nothing for a Florida player to bat an eyelash at, though.

After the game, we stopped at Tep's for dinner and were treated to nearly three gallons of homemade Root Beer. Yum.

G36E is doon :(
Last weekend, while I stayed home from Freefall, I began doing some maintenance on my G36E. Apparently, I cracked the fuse last time I was using it, so I had to take the gun apart to remove pieces of glass and metal. While removing the barrel assembly, I managed to break my Hop-up. Double damn on that one.

The hop snapped right off and my efforts to repair it were mostly in vain. The G36 has an extremely fragile hop and the only real replacement is to buy the complete unit, which is plastic, or try to buy one of the expensive metal hops (about $50).

Warther's...
I had some excellent suppliers and sources for spare parts. I decided to use one of my previous favorite suppliers Warther's Originals. This guy is out of Oregon and specializes in buying new Classic Army guns, stripping them down, and selling the parts through ebay and his own private website.

Recently, I'd been hearing some bad news about their shipping items and just extremely poor service. But having never experienced any problems, thought it may have been simply a problem between them. I understand how poor communication can often cause problems with online orders. But all of my past dealings had always gone smootholy with the seller.

Well, I think I see where these problems are coming from. It seems Warther's Ebay advertises items as in stock. Once the transaction has been completed, they print out the shipping lable. Then they wait until the items are actually in stock to ship out. THese items, in the eBay ad are listed as being IN STOCK, with a listing of shipping to be 2-3 days. Resonably, you can expect items within 4 days, if you account for logstics and packaging.

Items should have been shipped out when the lable is printed or shortly thereafter. That appears consistently to not be the case. I am disappointed as I had recommended this seller to others in the past and it is difficult to find reliable parts sellers like he had been.

So, for those of you looking for parts, I no longer recommend Warther's Originals from eBay. As a fellow eBay Seller, I do not condone listing items as In Stock and then drop shipping. This is poor business and somewhat shady to me. If this is the case, the seller should do more to notify the buyer when there are problems with shipping time.