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08. 02. 2020

Destroying gearbox by cylinder head

Sometimes we got a complaints about our CNC milled gearboxes, where you describe problems with Maxx cylinder heads (and other cylinder heads with frontal shock absorbing pads). And the problems are…

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02. 02. 2020

News 2020

Dear Customers, because of high demand of OEM production, the situation in our company is unbearable (OEM part of our production is currently about 90% of all orders) and we have to restrict some of…

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27. 07. 2019

New generation of Spring Guides

We made our first generation of spring guides from aircraft aluminum, but even with high strength of this material, there was some cases where it just broke up. The reason were thin walls in place…

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21. 07. 2019

Questions about cylinder compatibility with CNC gearbox

We got a lot of questions about cylinder compatibility and CNC gearboxes. A lot of you had a problem with installing cylinder into the gearbox. Our stainless cylinders and CNC gearboxes are made to…

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09. 01. 2019

Subsidized price of DHL Shipping

The end of 2018 year got a few tightening changes of terms and conditions of air transportation via Czech post, for destinations outside of EU**. These changes made it to the phase, where security…

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12. 12. 2018

The End...

Well this is it. None of us wanted that, but we have to end. It's sad, because this year just flew away and we need some time for a break to get ready for the next year. It has been five years since…

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01. 12. 2018

New NBU nozzles with sealings in our offer

Because of huge demand from our customers, we made first series of our new NBU (New Bore Up) dural nozzles. Our NBU nozzles are fully manufactured on CNC milling machines and instead of "branded…

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09. 10. 2018

CNC gearbox for Tokyo Marui SOPMOD - Fully working

We finally get working our new CNC gearbox for SOPMOD replica made by Tokyo Marui. This gearbox is the most complex gearbox on the market and it was really a challenge to build and manufacture one…

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15. 09. 2018

How to shim your gears

Our shop started the offer of our own gearbox shims recently. The shims are used to correct the movement will/gaps of electric airsoft gun between gear and gearbox. Our shims are manufactured from…

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15. 09. 2018

Tappet plates and how they are different

Tappet plate is the most underrated part in the Airsoft Gun. This part has a huge influence on the right functionality (feeding, loading, performance with used air nozzle) and we often see a case…

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15. 09. 2018

Comparison of the CNC gearboxes

Based on yours frequently asked questions about the high "price" of ou CNC gearbox V2, we decided, that we will answer you by this article and we do a comparison of two same products. In this case…

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06. 09. 2018

The difference between bushings and bearings

Since you frequently ask questions about the types and dimensions of our bushings/bearings, we had to write down some basic informations. The bearings (or bushings) are installed in the gearbox…

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26. 07. 2018

New CNC milling machine is operational

Today was a good day. We were working from the morning on our new CNC milling machine and it is now operational, the installation was without any problems. We can really see that Haas has the best…

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25. 07. 2018

Cooperation with DHL shipping company

From this day we offer express delivery for retail and wholesale customers in cooperation with DHL company for very favorably prices. The shipping fee of DHL option is shown in the cart shipping…

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24. 07. 2018

We bought another CNC milling machine

We needed to expand our manufacturing capacity, so we bought another milling machine, the fourth one from American manufacturer Haas. This new machine finally arrived and with help of two cranes…

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23. 07. 2018

We gave up our fight with anodizing because we found better solution

So far for 5 years since we founded Retro FACTORY s.r.o. we manufactured and anodized over 100000 pieces of different aluminum (dural) products, but we always had a lot of issues, where we cannot do…

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20. 07. 2018

Minor improvements on our new gearboxes

When we started manufacturing new series of our popular gearboxes V2, Split V2 or SR25, we added some improvements to them (marked with yellow color). First thing are radius cuts in the critical…

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20. 07. 2018

Expanding production

Dear fans, customers It is almost half of an year since our last moving into the bigger area, which started in the end of the 2017 and now its time to make another step forward. We are expaning our…

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03. 05. 2018

Another versions of our CNC POM Tappet Plates

We are preparing our factory for manufacturing another versions of our very resilient and flexible tappet plates made from POM material. These tappet plates are not made by injecting material into…

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12. 04. 2018

New surface finishing Shot Peening

Because of total failure of Czech Republic anodizing/surface treatment factories, which can’t deliver products in time and with problems of anodizing EN AW 7075 Aluminum, we were forced to buy our…

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12. 04. 2018

New parts for our cylinder sets

We re-designed and improved the cylinder head and piston head. Piston head got some improvements. Centering O-Ring was removed. This O-Ring was reason why the piston did not have full free…

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10. 03. 2018

We are expanding our production and building our store

Because of expanding our own production, we decided to build our own store in location of our company in Brno on Karásek 1f, 621 00 street. This store should be open during summer holidays, where you…

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20. 12. 2017

Production stopped, Internet store still available

Same thing as last year, we have to stop production from 22.12.2017 to 1.1.2018. You can still make an orders on our internet store, but all orders will be processed in 2.1.2018.   Thanks for…

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16. 12. 2017

Raising the price of our products

Same as last year, we are forced to raise the price of our products. Becouse the cost for our basic manufacturing material (Aluminum) and energies went also up. This is the last chance to buy our…

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04. 12. 2017

Possible delay of orders

Dear customers, we expect delay of shipping time in December because of Christmas. The shipping companies are overloaded, so please check your tracking number in your email, or in your internet store…

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30. 11. 2017

We are repairing our production machines

After 3 000 000 of repairings on our first CNC machine Haas VF2SS, our CAMBOX has broken. It is used for changing of the tools, so we had to change it for new one. This repair cost us 2 days. We…

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23. 11. 2017

Shipping Tracking Number

 All of our customers can found on theirs internet store accounts new feature - shipping tracking number. After sending shipment to the shipping company from our store in Brno, we will send you…

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22. 11. 2017

Extending of inner barrel through silencer

In this article, we will take a look on how to extend the inner barrel through the imitation of silencer. We offer our own manufactured silencers in a lot of length options with M14 Right Type Thread…

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21. 11. 2017

Retroarms Outer Barrels for AR15 and accessories

We decided to start producing of the CNC outer barrels for Airsoft AR15 replicas. These barrels are made of EN AW 7075 and EN AW 6061 material and they are whole made on CNC machines in lengths from…

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11. 11. 2017

New production area

After ten days of exhausting preparations, packaging, moving, re-opening, cleanings and tuning our CNC machines, we are finally in new manufacturing area. Even when we tried, we had to fully stop…

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17. 05. 2017

Concept for upgrade study – Dboys M4 + RetroArms split gearbox with integrated Hop-Up chamber

We wanted always to show, how simple and easy is installation of our CNC gearboxes. So we bought airsoft replica by Dboys company – model M4A1 CQBR and we installed into it our CNC gearbox ver. II…

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13. 05. 2017

Testing of new CNC gearbox ver. V2.2 for HK417

We made prototype of modified gearbox ver. 2.2 for HK417 VFC-UMAREX airsoft replicas. First big innovation is removing third part of the gearbox and integrating it into the lower part. This new…

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05. 02. 2017

Test of new cut-off lever for AR 15

As we announced before on Facebook, we are back with some fresh news about our new cut-off lever for AR15. We made some test properly and we used for that our split-gearbox ver. II with integrated…

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28. 01. 2017

RetroArms news

We are back with some fresh news. A lot of you maybe now asking, if we are still sleeping during this long winter. We were working on some great things and we want to also reply on your questions…

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06. 12. 2016

We are announcing new shipping packaging

We are annoucing new shipping packaging Due problems and restrictions with a lot of "unions", we were forced to make new packaging method. Our new shipping boxes have different logo (Retro FACTORY…

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05. 12. 2016

Problems with Yahoo mail

We found that our e-mail communication to the Yahoo service don't work. Please use different e-mail provider until we solve this problem. We are trying to solve this problem as fast as possible…

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27. 11. 2016

CNC nozzles available in lenght progress by 0,1 mm

We just finished manufacturing new CNC nozzles. They are available in lenghts from 19,5 mm to 26 mm  with 0,1 mm differencies. These new nozzles have one O ring sealing, which is enough for perfect…

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27. 11. 2016

New silicon and teflon Hop-Up spacers

We have new product on our marker. The silicon and teflon Hop-Up spacers. First of them is from silicon with 60Sha hardness, other one is hollow one from teflon with 80Sha hardness. They fit into…

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27. 11. 2016

Why do we stopped doing laser hardening

Some days ago, we released information on our Facebook page, about few prototypes of fullsteel piston teeth hardened by laser technology. After some testing, it showed this isn’t best way to go…

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27. 11. 2016

Prototype of new generation P90 gearbox

We just finished a prototype of new generation CNC gearbox for P90 airsoft weapon. Last version had problems with springs above M140 and get broke because of high pressure, so we connected upper part…

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27. 11. 2016

Why do we anodize 99% of aluminium parts

We get a lot of requests from customers about non-anodized gearboxes, yes we understand that, customers wants to see precise work and high quality material. Most of our parts are made from EN AW 7075…

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27. 11. 2016

New 7075 CNC nozzles

With our new CNC lathe, we can finally start production of high quality parts. First of this new parts are new nozzles sized from 19,8mm to 26mm by 0,1mm lenght distance. This nozzle are…

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27. 11. 2016

Parts marking

Some of our new generation parts like – new M4 triggers and cylinders, will be now marked for better recognize. We will mark them by engraving with hardsteel needle to the depth of max. 0,05mm. First…

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27. 11. 2016

We bought new CNC lathe

Two years after founding RetroArms company, we finally bought a new CNC lathe machine Haas ST10. This machine is perfect for manufacturing small and precise parts. So our two CNC milling machines…

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25. 08. 2016

New generation gearbox V2

Based on feedback and experience from you and tech guys, we totally reworked gearbox ver. II. Old data was deleted and everything was changed. The compatibility is now our main goal, so this new…

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16. 08. 2016

New type of fire selector for AK

We are manufacturing new type of fire selector (B) for airsoft AKs. This fire selector will be made of aircraft dural EN AW 7075 on CNC milling center. Available colors will be black and red.

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28. 07. 2016

New reworked pistons

After some time, we reworked piston. Almost everything is reworked now, but body is still Polyamide PA6.6 with 30% carbon fibre and 5% Molybdenum. We finally got 1,5 ton of wiring steel 14260…

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02. 01. 2016

Připravujeme eshop s příslušenstvím pro ostré zbraně

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01. 01. 2016

Ukončení prodeje některých produktů

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22. 12. 2015

Taking orders in 2015

Last year's orders will be handled by 12/23/2015. Another order to send 04/01/2016. At this time in our company we will plant shutdown so you will not even respond to emails. Thank you for your…

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17. 12. 2015

Další Hop Up komory ve výrobě

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17. 12. 2015

Nová generace skládaného mechaboxu verze II

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17. 12. 2015

Nová generace mechaboxu verze II

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12. 10. 2015

CNC split gearboxes in production!

Dear customers, we are happy to introduce you our second generation of CNC split gearboxes with many improvements. For example:  - less material at motor gear - hole for release ARL - different…

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16. 07. 2015

Temporary production shutdown

Dear customers, Since Sunday 19.7.2015 to Wednesday 22.7.2015 will be our company temporary closed. Due to instalation of the second CNC machine. Thank you for your patience

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22. 06. 2015

Gearbox prices increase

Unfortunately prices of aluminium still growing. Since last year more than 50%!! But we didn´t increase prices of our products until now. Due to futher price increase we must marking up prices of…

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21. 06. 2015

Latest News from RetroARMS

We received 2000 kg of aluminium EN AW 7075 T6 from Germany last week. From this material we will make gearboxes for stock and preorders. We was improve our tools.. Now we have new compressor MARK…

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01. 06. 2015

Latest improvements

In our latest series of gearboxes we made two improvements. First: We was add screw thread on pins for tapet plate and spring on contacts. Second: We was enlarge hole for trigger, so there will not…

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21. 05. 2015

Spring guide for CNC gearboxes from RetroARMS

We was improve universal spring guide for CNC gearboxes from RetroARMS. Spring guide base is from EN AW 7075 material and it has red eloxing color. First improvement is hexagon hole for easier…

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19. 05. 2015

Processor unit for Retro ARMS V2, V2.5 and Split gearboxes

We are proudly present our latest project Processor unit for our gearboxes It is program-controlled device with motor active braking. It has six shooting modes, controls rate of fire…

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24. 04. 2015

First review from test of final prototype V2 Split Gearbox

Hello everybody, some of you are already waiting for new product from RetroARMS company - split v2 gearbox with quick spring change system. I had been honoured to test this beautifully machined…

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03. 04. 2015

Airsoft SA.58 - ARES

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19. 03. 2015

Prototype of CNC Hop UP Chamber for P90

Production of the CNC gearbox for P90 is nearly finished and therefore we manufactured a CNC Hop Up chamber prototype for testing with P90 gearboxes (CNC as well as the standard ones). Hop up chamber…

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12. 03. 2015

NEW C CLIPS FOR BARREL LOCKS

From today we have all new C Clips for M4, Ak,M249 an P90 Hop Up chambers. Clips have new design without dividing plane. We also added locking groove for inner barrel. You can find all of our C…

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26. 02. 2015

NEW SERIES OF CNC GEARBOXES IN STOCK!

We are currently restocking over 400 pieces of a brand new Gearboxes with code name 7075 series. These are the types: CNC gearbox v.2 - QSC CNC gearbox v.3 - QSC CNC gearbox SR25 - QSC CNC…

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05. 02. 2015

CNC Speed triggers for M4 series

We are prepared three types of CNC Speed triggers for M4 series. Three types, four colors! These triggers are full CNC from high quality aluminium EN AW2007 and thanks to them you will have better…

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05. 02. 2015

CNC CUSTOM ACCESSORIES FOR AK SERIES

Is your AK looking boring? We have a solution! Custum accessories for AK guns! We have custom fire selectors, custom buttons for dust covers, triggers and screws for selectors in four colors and…

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03. 02. 2015

WE ARE OFFERING 15% DISCOUNT FOR ARMED FORCES

For more informations, please contact us on email info@retroarms.com

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02. 02. 2015

CNC RECEIVER COVER FOR VZ.58 – 2. GENERATION

Because the first series of CNC receiver cover for vz.58 was very successful , we are preparing another batch of covers.For receiver covers we will manufacture complete internal parts. Including…

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02. 02. 2015

WE ARE FINISHING RAIL HANDGUARD FOR VZ.58

We are finally finishing aluminum handguard for the gun vz.58. Our handguards and dust covers will be tested in Zahal.org.

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31. 05. 2014

CNC SLING MOUNTS FOR P90

On the numerous requests we made sling mounts for gun P90 on CNC machine from solid aluminum. The part is completely milled on CNC, it is not a cheap steel burnout with sharp edges. All edges are…

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30. 05. 2014

IMPACT RUBBERS FOR PISTON HEAD AND CYLINDER HEAD

We expanding the production of plastic injection and molds production. We made form for the impact rubbers for piston head and cylinder head. The form worked well and impact rubbers were nicely made…

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28. 05. 2014

CNC CUT OFF LEVER V.II IN STOCK

We made almost 500pc of cut off lever from aluminium EN AW 7075 T651 for gearbox v.II. Cut off levers for other weapons such as AK, G36, etc. will be soon too.

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08. 05. 2014

LASER MARKING

We're testing a laser marking on gearboxes and on other products from our production. Laser marking on gearbox is also can be ordered. More details on our eshop.

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06. 05. 2014

SPLIT GEARBOX – LOWER PART

We slowly but successfully continue in our project of CNC split Gearbox Version II. On images you can see finished lower part. Other parts will coming in next few days. Preview of gearbox is on the…

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05. 05. 2014

CNC GEARBOX v.2 - 9mm

On request of our customers, we are making a series of CNC Gearbox Version II for 9 mm bearings. All other parameters are the same as the classic version of Gearbox Version II.  

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03. 05. 2014

PISTONS WITH TITANIUM COATING

We are preparing pistons with steel teeth and a titanium coating, which highly increases the life of the teeth. Titanium coating will be on all types of our pistons.

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