Heavy Weight bbs

[gvanzeggelaar]

I have been looking everywhere and I can not find 6mm bbs over 0.3g. Does anyone know where I could get a hold of some.

Thanks in advance

[demco11]

0.30g is the most available of the heavy weighted bb's.

However... there is a 0.43g available...
On a local board we are going to do a group order... seems to be no-name brand bb's but we will take a chance...
Link for 0.43g:
http://airsoftoutletnw.net/index.php...hk=1&Itemid=28

[patcou]

http://www.shootercity-airsoft.com/
they have some made by SIIS and under the tab other (no name).

[BBS]

there are bbs that are over the weight of .30g. Straight makes those, but most of them are graphite coated, messing up your hop-up, thus throwing off your accuracy. You can wash off the silver coating of these bbs but its very tedious to do. Furthermore, these bbs are hard to find.

in the meantime, just stick to .30g

[digital_blue]

I believe 0.34 gram aluminum bbs are available... IIRC 0.88g steel bbs are also available...

[gvanzeggelaar]

Alright thanks for the information guys. Appreciate it.

[LUTNIT]

Originally Posted by digital_blue

I believe 0.34 gram aluminum bbs are available... IIRC 0.88g steel bbs are also available...

.34 are most definitely plastic still, as I have used .43's and they are 100% plastic. The .88's might be aluminum.

[Tirador]

i have here .878g bbs (6mm solid steel ball bearing )for gas powered guns. hit me up if interested.

pic.

[Contradiction]

Its funny that you mention that, I was just taking a look at this today.
Wikipedia is your friend. (unless the creator of the article is stupid)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airsoft_pellets

[Jayhad]

IIRC you can get the 6mm steel bbs from any transmission shop as they are transmission bearings.... I could be wrong though

[Donster]

Scarecrow on the forums is the man behind BB Bastard. He said he will be creating a .34g product. You can look at his thread on the topic. Just hold out for another 6 months, a year at the most and it should be here.

[arman]

Originally Posted by BBS

there are bbs that are over the weight of .30g. Straight makes those, but most of them are graphite coated, messing up your hop-up, thus throwing off your accuracy. You can wash off the silver coating of these bbs but its very tedious to do. Furthermore, these bbs are hard to find.

in the meantime, just stick to .30g

why do they coat them then? also why do people still ask for them?

sorry to jackathread

[SHÖCK]

I wouldn't want to be hit by metal ball bearings. Why would you play with these unless you are sniper that is very very good at respecting minimum engagement distance accorinding to weight and energy on impact. If your gun is hot enough to propel nearly 1 gram metal bbs, I'm not playing with you It's basically an air/pellet gun.

[Scarecrow]

Anything above .30gr is tricky - actually going above .28gr reliably was tricky. The .30gr BB I sell and that anyone else sells is actually not pure ABS plastic - it has additives to bring up the weight.

My problem is the additive we use tops out at .30gr so we have to find another additive that offers greater weight and density options that does not interfere with the molding process or the polishing process. So far thats been very difficult to find. I did test one batch of test .34's sent to me and didn't like them - the surface pitted during the polish process. This is why I suspect the graphite BBs are popular as a heavier BB. They use a colored BB and then add graphite powder to cover up the pitting, and then market it as some kind of BB enhancement, when it fact all it does it gum up your hopup and if you wash the BB, you're again left with pitting.

No easy answers on this one folks - plus there is the ever present volume issue - people are just not buying heavy weight BBs in quantity. This year .20 and .25 are way ahead in sales compared to .28 and .30. Perhaps I've sold 50 bags of .30 product so far - so the incentive to manufacture and carry heavy weight product really isn't there. I've got about 5 years of .30 product in stock based on that sales volume.

P.S. Aside from the obvious danger of shooting ball bearings, ball bearings will ruin the inner barrel by scoring it as its fired. Not recommended.

[Skladfin]

Originally Posted by Scarecrow

My problem is the additive we use tops out at .30gr so we have to find another additive that offers greater weight and density options that does not interfere with the molding process or the polishing process.

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