Just wondered if neones done this before, and if so how hard or expensive is it?
Ive got 6 weeks to burn and im borred as hell after the second day
Ive got 6 weeks to burn and im borred as hell after the second day
Building myself a cocker
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yup pritty much every tinkerer ever has built a cocker, the good news is they are fairly easy to get parts for and the budget can be as little or large as you like depending on how crazy you want to get, from a simple mechanical cocker all the way up to an ego framed cut down sled-bodied mq-ed e2-ed crazy beast. or go old school and do a sniper (pump action cocker)
the sky really is the limit....enjoy!
last one i did (6 months ago) was a pump - total spent was around 450 (could be done a lot cheaper using a 2nd hand gun these days probably less than 300), i used an ebladed 2k4 eclipse cocker which i bought a couple of years earlier and took parts off and basically traded them for the pump parts, added a few nice touches and a very slick anno job (white with polished green) and im very happy with it.
before that i did the first turtle cocker in the uk (around 3 years ago) with the intention of making it as light as possible, built up entierly from parts, full eclipse internals, eblade, all in polished black, wieghed 1g less than a nexus cocker, lol. i think i spent around 500-600 again on that one and sold it for slight profit if i remember correctly.....it changed hands a couple of times since but i have seen it being used !
pic is a bit dark but http://homepage.ntlworld.com/matthew.stockdale/Tur 2.jpg
before that i built my first every cocker (and first semi) around 10 years ago...one of the early minicockers which i added to bit by bit over a few years and finally sold it to finance another gun i was building, last time i saw it it had had a race conversion and looked pritty damn good for a 10 year old gun!
the sky really is the limit....enjoy!
last one i did (6 months ago) was a pump - total spent was around 450 (could be done a lot cheaper using a 2nd hand gun these days probably less than 300), i used an ebladed 2k4 eclipse cocker which i bought a couple of years earlier and took parts off and basically traded them for the pump parts, added a few nice touches and a very slick anno job (white with polished green) and im very happy with it.
before that i did the first turtle cocker in the uk (around 3 years ago) with the intention of making it as light as possible, built up entierly from parts, full eclipse internals, eblade, all in polished black, wieghed 1g less than a nexus cocker, lol. i think i spent around 500-600 again on that one and sold it for slight profit if i remember correctly.....it changed hands a couple of times since but i have seen it being used !
pic is a bit dark but http://homepage.ntlworld.com/matthew.stockdale/Tur 2.jpg
before that i built my first every cocker (and first semi) around 10 years ago...one of the early minicockers which i added to bit by bit over a few years and finally sold it to finance another gun i was building, last time i saw it it had had a race conversion and looked pritty damn good for a 10 year old gun!
Right well i was gonna go and mod summit like 1 of these
Neone know what it is?
heh how come i cant post pics when im a plat member or did thye take that off?
Neone know what it is?
heh how come i cant post pics when im a plat member or did thye take that off?
Actualy thinkign about it if prolly prefer to retro fit cocker internals into a timmy frame... ill have to get pondering
Think they may be either Rekka's or Evolution's. Couldn't say for certain though. I don't know very much!!Bon said:Right well i was gonna go and mod summit like 1 of these
Neone know what it is?
heh how come i cant post pics when im a plat member or did thye take that off?
Well the image is a bit small and i'm on my way to being blind drunk, but that looks like a standard "Evolution" cocker?Bon said:Right well i was gonna go and mod summit like 1 of these
Neone know what it is?
Maybe a dark evo if they did such a thing, the milling on the top rear looks like the dark cocker milling
How about this instead?
image is a little small but looks like evo cockers to me, good place to start a cocker build as the internals will already be top quality and wont need replaceing
MMmmmm...Z-Force....diablo66 said:
I think they have sorted an adapter so it will take an MQ Valve now.
They have indeed.Skeet said:MMmmmm...Z-Force....
I think they have sorted an adapter so it will take an MQ Valve now.
I've built a bunch of 'cockers, like Jahlad said, it all depends on how much you want to spend. I built a RF 2k1 'cocker back around 2k2 for what, at the time, was a great price from a couple of broken guns I acquired on Pbnation ($100 a piece, plus an LPR), built an Uprising based electro from that and a new ram, bought a vertical feed body for under $100, used the spare mech frame from the 2k1 and built what was left from spare parts I'd acquired from various transactions and broken guns. By the same token, you could build an E2 or Racegun based, custom bodied 'cocker with MQ and high-quality bits for over $1,000. You can get parts, bodies, and broken 'cockers for cheap all day long and have some fun tinkering and "restoring" them for not a real big investment, or build a one of a kind performance machine that costs as much as your house. The problem I always run into though is that I have a hard time selling the guns after I build them, even if I don't use them or need them (which I never did, I just built them for sport) - I get too attached.