Posted: 9/29/2006 11:34:34 AM EDT
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I bought a 16'' ASP baton yesterday. Opening it is easy enough, but I'm having a really hard time getting it to retract. I've taken the shafts out of the handle and put some oil on them. When the baton is opened briskly, the innermost shaft locks in and is a bear to get to retract. Hitting it several times on a hard surface sometimes doesn't do it. Is there any trick to making it easier to handle? Thanks. |
Hmmm, not sure. I do know that Denver is a target rich environment. There's a drum circle around there somewhere. |
I like the ASP batons but you guys need to check your local laws, in many places it is illegal to have on in your vehicle. A lawyer had a funny story about an ASP. His client was arrested for having a ASP on the seat of his truck. At the trial the lawyer sized up his opponent a new ADA. He then asked the question, how does the arresting officer know that the ASP was indeed a venimous serpent and how does the law on 'dangerious weapons' apply to this reptile? The ADA did not know a ASP from the reptile so the guy got off. 
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SWEET STORY! Anyway, the ASP I was issued at my old agency collapased only on very hard surfaces, and after a couple hits. I cracked the concrete in my driveway once.
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Denver? Pshh...I'm typing this from a classroom in Boulder. I can see a dozen skulls in this room alone that need cracking! 
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I read the owners manual and it suggested oiling the inner shaft. I've also adjusted the spring in there, though that only effects opening and locking back into place. And not retracting the innermost shaft. Joker-Rolling it while tapping it does indeed make it easier. Thanks for all of the replies! |
If you use it and still have a little work to do stick it in your belt or down in the hole in the bottom of it's holster, you may need it again shortly. When all the fun is over hold it with a light grip and tap the tip on pavement like you were playing a drum and roll it so that you tap a different side of the tip each time. It will eventually come loose and retract. That is unless you hit something hard enough to bend it. 
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Tap the tip with a light swing like you are hammering a nail, roll it in your grip and do it on the other side of the tip. Then change your grip and drive it into the concrete like you are using a dagger. Gotta use some force. The hammer swing helps break the bond between the shafts. I use an auto lock now. Push a button and slide the shafts into each other. |
HIt it on the tip's side a few times with medium light force then rotate and do other side. That should lossen it up a bit for you to close with a flat strike to the ground. |
Handgunlaws - tread carefully, in a lot of states, owning one of those things is just fine, but carrying it on your person is treated the same as if you were carrying a gun. I think they're illegal for carry here in Georgia, whether I have a CCW permit or not. |
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Monadnock makes three types of expandable batons. Friction lock, the Autolock, and a pin lock. The friction lock batons by ASP, Monadnock, Casco, and hte generics are VERY easy to close using the proper technique. Do NOT hold them tightly when hitting them on the ground. Hold them loosely, with just your finger tips. Bring it down quickly onto the ground and they will almost always close with not problem whatsoever. The Airweight ASPs (the aluminum ones) will sometimes lock extremely hard if opened too hard, and will require multiple strikes to close. The vibration from holding it loosely shocks the shafts loose. If you hold it tightly, then your arm absorbs the vibration. You can also just keep slapping the sole of your shoe a few times and that'll vibrate them loose. |
when they say striking the ground they dont mean striking as in a stabbing motion(as this can bend the batton) they are talking about striking as if you were triking a person and holding it loose..... when you strike a person hold it firmly 
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