Flash Hiders

A compensator is a special device that is most often installed on the barrel thread. Its purpose in firearms is to reduce the stroke of the weapon after firing. Its variant is the muzzle brake, which directs the direction of the flow of gases from the barrel and thus reduces recoil. The most common devices sold today are a combination of a muzzle brake and a compensator.

In airsoft, they are only of aesthetic importance. Some devices can also serve as a lock for the suppressor, following the model of real models, where the suppressor is classically screwed onto the barrel, but then locked with a lock.

Any compensator must be screwed onto the barrel. For this, either threaded glue or a deformation washer, called a Crush Washer, is used.

As far as threads are concerned, there is no one universal type, but there are a large number of them.

The most common are LH and RH.

• LH is translated as left-hand thread, which means that it is tightened in a counterclockwise direction.
• RH is a right-hand thread, so it tightens in a clockwise direction.

There are actually a huge number of threads themselves, but the most common one we come across is threaded:

1/2x28 ( ar15, 9mm pistols), .578x28 for 45.acp guns, and 5/8×24 for larger caliber repeating rifles.