ASP stuck open. WTF

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Posted: 3/20/2006 4:17:31 PM EDT

My ASP is extended and I can't get it to close. I soaked it down with CLP and it still won't budge. Anybody got any suggestions?

Posted: 3/20/2006 4:23:41 PM EDT

[#1]

Hold it by the handle, lightly tap the tip on the pavement while rotating the handle. then slam the tip straight down on the pavement.

Posted: 3/20/2006 4:27:55 PM EDT

[#2]

Find concrete or a flat stone.
Grasp the baton with 2 hands, so the tip is pointing down.
Forcefully run the tip into the concrete or stone.

1 of 3 things will happen
1) Chip the concrete or stone
2) The baton is now closed
3) Man card revoked, lifetime.

Posted: 3/20/2006 4:47:40 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
Find concrete or a flat stone.
Grasp the baton with 2 hands, so the tip is pointing down.
Forcefully run the tip into the concrete or stone.

1 of 3 things will happen
1) Chip the concrete or stone
2) The baton is now closed
3) Man card revoked, lifetime.

I tried that. I split a brick on my porch, knocked out a huge chunk of concrete, and took all the finish that was left off of the baton.

I also put it tip down and smacked it on the end of the with a kevlar helmet about 5 times. The people in the duplex next door came over and asked if someone was shooting in my backyard.

Posted: 3/20/2006 4:49:42 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Hold it by the handle, lightly tap the tip on the pavement while rotating the handle. then slam the tip straight down on the pavement.

Worked like a charm. Thanks.

Posted: 3/20/2006 5:22:30 PM EDT

[#5]

Now might be the time to trade that sucker in for something different......

How long have you had it?

Posted: 3/20/2006 7:36:44 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Hold it by the handle, lightly tap the tip on the pavement while rotating the handle. then slam the tip straight down on the pavement.
Worked like a charm. Thanks.

uh dude... that is in the instructions.

tap tap tap tap then Whack!

not Whack whack whack... that never works.

Posted: 3/21/2006 4:30:18 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Hold it by the handle, lightly tap the tip on the pavement while rotating the handle. then slam the tip straight down on the pavement.
Worked like a charm. Thanks.

uh dude... that is in the instructions.

tap tap tap tap then Whack!

not Whack whack whack... that never works.

Instructions?

I lost or threw away the instructions at least two years ago. I don't get alot of use out of the ASP.

Posted: 3/21/2006 4:31:02 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Now might be the time to trade that sucker in for something different......

How long have you had it?

About 2 years.

Posted: 3/21/2006 5:52:01 PM EDT

[#9]

I've used mine once so far.

I dropped my water bottle on the floor on the passenger side of the car and used the ASP to reach over and pick it up.

Posted: 3/22/2006 7:09:12 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
I've used mine once so far.

I dropped my water bottle on the floor on the passenger side of the car and used the ASP to reach over and pick it up.

Works great for that doesn't it

Also works to shut the vents on the passenger side of the car.

Posted: 3/22/2006 7:15:54 AM EDT

[#11]

The only time I used my asp, one night I came up on two guys, one was holding a piece of pipe like he was going to cave the other's head in. I snicked the asp out and said drop it....(Clang.) Came in handy then, mostly just in the way.

Posted: 3/22/2006 9:11:03 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I've used mine once so far.

I dropped my water bottle on the floor on the passenger side of the car and used the ASP to reach over and pick it up.

Works great for that doesn't it
Also works to shut the vents on the passenger side of the car.

Moved a nearly-dead cat out of the road...wasn't putting my hand near that pissed off sucker.

Posted: 3/22/2006 9:14:53 AM EDT

[#13]

It's good for waking up bums

Posted: 3/22/2006 10:03:59 AM EDT

[#14]

They are good for popping your hubcap back after you jump the raised railroad track crossing.
I haven't used mine on anyone so far...I always seem to have my large flashlight in my hand instead.

Posted: 3/22/2006 10:29:52 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
They are good for popping your hubcap back after you jump the raised railroad track crossing.
I haven't used mine on anyone so far...I always seem to have my large flashlight in my hand instead.

Posted: 3/22/2006 11:03:42 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Quoted:
They are good for popping your hubcap back after you jump the raised railroad track crossing.
I haven't used mine on anyone so far...I always seem to have my large flashlight in my hand instead.

<edited -NorCal>

OOOOOOOOOOH he said it...

Most of the times I've seen it deployed it'a been for psychop purposes.

FY you F'in pig (draws back)
<snik>
Hey, man... now hold on...

Posted: 3/22/2006 2:46:59 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
I've used mine once so far.

I dropped my water bottle on the floor on the passenger side of the car and used the ASP to reach over and pick it up.

That sounds a lot like my uses.
I tend to use mine as a probe for places I don't want to put my hands.

Posted: 3/23/2006 6:43:03 AM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I've used mine once so far.

I dropped my water bottle on the floor on the passenger side of the car and used the ASP to reach over and pick it up.

That sounds a lot like my uses.
I tend to use mine as a probe for places I don't want to put my hands.

DIDn't some guy get fired for that

Posted: 3/23/2006 2:05:36 PM EDT

[#19]

CLP? Why would you do that? ASP specifically trains to NEVER lubricate the baton. Take it apart, clean it up with brake cleaner to get off the CLP.

Hard strike on a concrete surface would have closed it up.

Posted: 3/23/2006 5:02:39 PM EDT

[#20]

Maybe one of the sections is bent and wont allow the whole unit to collapse?

Posted: 3/23/2006 5:13:31 PM EDT

[#21]

When I first came on the job, we were issued a straight wood stick, and a slap-jack. The nightstick usually got left in the scout car, but the slap-jack got lots of use.

When we transitioned to the ASP's, it was great because it was always on my belt. The down side was that we were no longer authorized to use the slap-jack

Posted: 3/26/2006 9:40:27 AM EDT

[#22]

I use my ASP to scratch me back under my ballistic vest when I can't get to the itch with my hand. Other than that, it's never used.

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