Haha, I got kinda carried away reading the other posts I forgot to answer your specific questions...
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Originally Posted by Spa
Hi everyone,
Some questions that do come to my mind is that, what would happen to an AEG's internals if a latch was not to exist? What would happen to internals if a AV latch has a very weak spring only making the latch go back to the bevel gear only slower then a normal spring? Would a pinion gear get damage?
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No latch - if the piston is partially in its cycle when the motor shut off the spring will push the piston forward, causing the gear train to run in reverse. Bad for piston as I've found out in one case. Gears should be okay (as they're meant to run in both directions). However, should you pull the trigger WHILE the system is running in reverse, I would expect bad things to happen to your pinion and/or bevel gears.
Weak spring vs strong spring - shouldn't make no difference unless the spring is even to weak to push the latch up against the bevel gear. In either case, the latch is always in contact with the bevel gear while the system spins so the latch doesn't 'return faster' because it's always there! It's how many notches on the bevel and how far the notch is away that will determine when the latch engages.
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Originally Posted by Spa
This does not have to solely be focused on damage but also what it can do for an AEG. for example? would a quicker AV latch mean that there will be less damage to gears? The more latches on a bevel gear mean the faster an AEG can fire on semi auto?
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See above for the first part...
I don't think you'll find more latches will give faster semi auto response as the piston always returns to the forward most position in semi. The only case I could see this actually working is with overspin - the gears spin after the cutoff level is engaged and actually pull back the piston a tiny bit back and the latch engages before it can return. I think the difference wouldn't be very noticable and that little bit of overspin isn't good for the piston should the latch not engage in time to stop it from reversing direction.