LWI Shark Hop-Up — Fixed

Description

Designed, tested and made in Queensland.

Six months of prototyping and range work went into this unit, chasing a single result: the most consistent hop a gelball can be given. It’s printed in engineering resin — light, dimensionally stable, and strong where it needs to be.

Three custom elements, working together

• The tongue. Length and surface texture engineered around a gel travelling at roughly 300 FPS — enough grip to spin the gel cleanly without deforming it.
• The air porting. Excess compressed air is vented and dispersed before the gel is spun, so the hop is applied to a gel in clean air rather than one fighting its own pressure wave. The result is a flatter, straighter flight with far less vertical scatter.
• The bottom lip. A custom profile that suppresses the side spin responsible for curving fliers — and side spin is what opens up a group more than anything else. This is where the tightest groups come from.

Factory-tuned, not adjustable

This variant is finely tuned around sorted gels at approximately 7.35 mm. There’s nothing to dial in and nothing to drift: fit it, lock it, shoot it. On graded gels it is the most consistent setup we build.

Fitment

Inner barrel ID	7.5 mm
Barrel OD	9.5 mm only
Exposed inner barrel required	12.8 mm
Mounting	Friction fit, grub-screw locked
Material	Engineering resin
Tuned for	Sorted gels, approx. 7.35 mm

Installation

Leave exactly 12.8 mm of inner barrel protruding. The Shark is a friction fit over that length — push it on square and fully home, then tighten the grub screw to stop it shifting under recoil. Snug is enough; this is resin, not steel.