Thanks nil8r.

I wonder why CA did it that way?

Anyway, I'll start will some sort of glue remover first and just work it slowly from there.  These things are pretty hard to find.  So I don't want to mess it up.  If it's too much trouble I'll just leave it and look for a Mk-1 outer barrel.

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Gents

I recently purchased a Classic Army Mk-II long outer barrel for my M249.

I tried to remove the flash hider with no success.  If I look through the front of the barrel is seems like the flash hider is a separate piece but from the out side it doesn't.  I don't see the small little screw that you normally find under the flash hider.  So I'm not 100% sure if the flash hider is a seperate piece that's glued on or it's a one piece barrel.  If it is a seperate piece does anyone have any experience of removing one?

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I lucked into an M240 Softmount Cradle for $350:
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h315/ ... Cradle.jpg

Falldownjaeger, what a frikken steal!  If you find another one for that price, let me know :mrgreen:

The Belgians and Germans actually mounted M2 .50BMG on the rollbar:
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h315/ ... Mount1.jpg

OMG! With that gun mounted that high, that vehicle must have rocked all over the place when shooting it.  Plus the gunner is a bit exposed.

If you do mount your M240 on to your vehicle I strongly recommend 2 things.  One, that you get a travel lock for it if you plan to drive around with the gun unmanned.  Otherwise, your gun will be bouncing around all over the place and eventually damaging it or worse.  Two, that you also have some type of ammo tray that you can tie down and secure your ammo box to for the same reason above.  Even if you have a travel lock it will still bounce around.  Hit a nice good pot hole and it will go flying.  

Wraith has an excellent set up!  I wish I had a spare ammo box so I can do the same.  Unfortunately, Trigger Happy doesn't sell spare.  I'm hoping I might find one some where.

I had my own custom made mount.  Originally it had no ammo tray but after driving around with out one and seeing the ammo box bouncing around all over the place. I decided to add one.  I got my idea from looking at Wraith's mount.  The one main difference with mine is that it's designed to sit low on a swing arm.  So the ammo tray doesn't sit below the bottom of the mount.  Because of this I had to modify the mount on the M240 ammo box to sit a little higher.  To do this I drilled 2 holes about 3/4 of an inch below the original holes.  The only draw back is that the ammo belt doesn't sit properly.  A minor annoyance.

Busta Cap

Thanks for the kind words on my review.  I plan to do add one or two more updates to it in the near future on the gear box and showing how to mount it on a vehicle and tripod.

From what I've heard, the TH M240 hasn't been discontinued but temporary unavailable according to a friend who tried to order one from Spartan recently.   I wonder if they were affected by the crack down on airsoft gun manufactures in China.

Echo-1 is supposedly coming out with one too but I think they have run into the same problem with China too.  From the pictures that I've seen it appears to be similar to the TH M240.

By the way, here is a Youtube review of the Inokatsu M240 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojN2KcPp4r0

I know Inokatsu has brought their prices way down to match the price of the Trigger Happy M240.  By the way, Busta, what's a MAP rule?

Anyway, from what I've seen, I think the TH M240 is better.  The only exception it that the Inokatsu M240 seems to have a more sturdier but heavier body.  The other thing that I'm not keen on is the ammo box.  It's bulky and not as clean.  The worst thing is the piece that attaches to the gun is the same hideous day glow light blue color as the gear box.

Aluminum

This review has been updated in the "Review" section of this forum.

Thanks for the compliment AZSAC Commander.

By the way, I just updated the review.  The updates are in green.