Four of the Roadcrew guys loaded into our car and headed out to find some nice compression springs to build some fun new airsoft mines we had come up with. A variant on the simple tube mine you see on youtube and at countless airsoft fields.
How you might ask is this an adventure worth chronicling? Well, long story short, no where near here carries them. The springs we found ranged from pitifully small and weak to "three men and an orangutan" to compress. With nothing reasonable in between. Oh, we saw a few springs that would work nicely, but they were built into several items too expensive to justify buying and tearing down just for their squishy goodness.
So we returned home to regroup and do some more research. It's a good lesson for airsoft; sometimes you have to pull back from your objective to win the battle.
We will update and give you links to get springs (along with an article on how to make these simple tube mines) in an upcoming post. Once we finally find a suitable one. At this point, AEG springs are looking like one of the best bets that will be commonly available, but if we can find a hardware store version for a reasonable price, it will be posted here for all of you to get your grubby hands on as well.
Over and out.
The Roadcrew is an airsoft group based in West Michigan. We are a casual group who also play with other local groups as time permits. This review is intended for new and intermediate players, to give them another perspective along with a good dose of weird humor on airsoft gear and tactics.
We have had some luck with McMaster-Carr, expect a full review down the road. Amazon has a few springs, but not in good sizes for what we have in mind.
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