<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by KNIFE THROWER:
I persomally think that brass was and is the way to go. This tool would realy pack some punch. If it is just being used as a pocket stick Ti would be fine. For use as an impact tool/club the extra weight would be better.</font>
Jim,
I think you're off the mark on that one, about the brass being the way to go. Sure, brass is indeed heavy and packs a wallop. It is also slower. If that was not bad enough, the flashlights the Brass weight was designed to be screwed onto/into, the Mini-Maglite, they are Aircraft-Grade Aluminum.
Now, having that heavy ass chunk of solid or semi-solid brass screwed onto the end of a hollow piece of Aluminum...was not necessarily the way to go.
Titanium is 1/3 the weight of steel [roughly] and it is very fast in the hand. Sometimes, speed is better. If you can develop great speed, it will still generate enough power to ring someone's bell...
Not only that, but if you actually hit someone with it, Titanium would be less likely [than brass] to split the relatively thin-walled Aluminum Flashlight at the threads.
It is no big deal to ruin a $12.00 Mini-Maglite, but you do want it to stay together for more than three good strikes. Then you can pick up the pieces [if you have the time] and go about your business.
The brass is softer than Titanium, so if you did destroy the Mini-Mag on someone's head, you would probably be able to just unscrew the remaining Aluminum off the Ti-Add On and screw it into another flashlight. The brass, being soft, would not put up with too much abuse on the threads.
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[This message has been edited by Don Rearic (edited 05-09-2001).]
