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canook said:
It will break the window but it will also wreck your tip. Glass is harder than steel and because a knife tip is so fine is will just get bent or broken. I tried it with an old Benchmade just to find out and I blunted the last 1/8" of the blade.

The glass beaker on the 3Mil is just a semi sharp little nub that's big enough to not get damaged but small enough to still break the glass efficiently. Just hit the window in the corner.
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You won't damage the RC5 tip breaking a car window-that I can guarantee. It's at least as thick as most glass breakers.
 
PayetteRucker said:
You won't damage the RC5 tip breaking a car window-that I can guarantee. It's at least as thick as most glass breakers.
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I have some little spring loaded glass breakers that cost under $10 for that job. Knife-wise, I'd prefer to using the handle on my RC-3 Mil "handle first" into the glass. That'd make me feel a lot safer than stabbing into windows with a knife that doesn't have finger guards. It's just easier to toss an inexpensive glass breaker into your familys' glove boxes for emergency use.

If your OUTSIDE the vehicle - a whole lot of options for breaking glass become available. I watched a big cop, boot the passenger window completely out on the Steven Seagal police show today. Cheap glass breaker! :D
 
PayetteRucker said:
Duty carry/demo work/EDC in Florida... any sort of salt water, dust, sand, dirt, foreign particles in general will lock that action up so fast and hard it'll be useless. I started with a Trident-it was done in about three weeks. I thought it must have been a mellon or something so I purchased a Flash II for a good deal on base-it did the same damn thing.
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my father in law has a trident that cost twice what my flash ii cost and it started rusting right away, even through the finish. we couldn't believe it. also, his gummed up pretty bad and doesn't fly open. i've never had a problem with my flash ii, but i don't need to use it a whole lot. i do carry it every day and i use it whenever i need a knife, but i just don't need it much. mine has been great, even through korea's humid summers and cold winters. it's seen a lot of different weather patterns and environments and it's still going strong. maybe i just got lucky with mine.
 
That Ti/Nitrade coating that they use sucks-the finishes on all my Seal Pups rusted off too. Titanium is one of the least reactive metals in existance, so in theory it should make for an ideal blade coating. I'm not sure if it was the AUS8 steel itself or some other sort of oxidation going on with the coating. Either way I've moved on... there are very few folders I'd ever spend that much money on again, and that's assuming I've got money in my pocket and nothing else to spend it on. If I had a million dollars, an Enzo folder, a Daniele Serrano flipper and probably a Gaylean Pro JYD ...
 
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