Re: ITP A3 EOS & Maratac AAA Reviews: RUNTIMES, BEAMSHOTS, DETAILED PICS & more!
Great review!
Love my MaratracAAA SS. The keychain hanger is not up to par-only lasted about three hours before it popped off and that was just office carry. The clip seems good, I keep the light inside my front jeans pocket like you would carry a clip knife and has worked well for 3+ weeks. I really would prefer high-medium-low.Alsolike the ability to tailstand the light.
Not picking on you in paticular here but seems all the complaints of the lanyard attachment point and the clip needed some positive input. Again because of the way you have to reply, to my knowledge is by clicking on someones comment. Again not against your reply in the least but in general is why I am makeing my observations here.
I keep my maratac clipped to a beltloop of a leather sheath. This is heavyweight leather not cheap stuff. I put it on there at night for something that may go thump in the night. I do not own a gun so my gerber S30V ss in black coat is my little equalizer. But back to the subject. I have put this on there at night and in the day I clip it to my shirt pocket. Let me check here, Yep I pull on it and it feels as though it would rip my pocket before releasing. And as far as the thingy for the lanyard. I wished I would have kept mine on now just to test it. How can one break something like this is beyond me. With heavy tools and a machinist scribe, I had to pry, twist, pull, tried to push the clip out "with the machinist scribe" of its capture points, and eventually I gave up trying to pull/break it off. I simply got my sons linemans pliers and cut it off.
On another note. I made this aware to the reviewer here, but I will go ahead and mention it now. I was working on my sons car and I just tossed my maratac in my pocket. I pulled it out after a while to use it and it seemed to open on low and nothing else. I looked at it and you could see that the head was out of line with the body. It must have pressed against something on my sons keys in my pocket as I was leaning over the hood. Well it seems it could not take my 218 pounds force against his keys pressing against the front quarterpanel/fender. I simply took the battery out. I would roll it on a flat hard surface and it would go **** ****. Translated it was bent and the tail would go up and down on the hard surface while rolling. I simply flexed it with my fingers and hands till I got it rolling smooth again. It does not look like it but the tailcap is the same diameter as the head or bezel. This is by eye only by rolling it on the hard surface. I do not have a machinist caliper to check it. So now with just flexing it with my hands and being careful not to put to much of my brute strengh on it as to kink it and it would be all over, well it is straight once more and I can breath again. I was disapointed for the short time it was bent.
So that is my one and only finding so far as to the quality in build. I really want to buy another now to attach something on that lanyard and try different amounts of weight to see how many pounds it takes to pull off.
On the stainless one I don't know. Maybe you just got a bum one or maybe the stainless is a bit more slippery than the anodized aluminum and it does not have the "bite" if you will, like the anodized aluminum would have.
Just my observations and thoughts. I would still choose the maratac over the itp because of what some others like here. The knurling, and asthetics of the maratac, compared to the look of the itp and its carry point. Not having the itp to compare it seems the knurling would be better if the light got wet or get some lubricant on it like I did when working on my sons car. As far as every day carry though I do not think it would make much different as the light it self only weighs 20 grams and with a lithium battery not much more. So it is not likely that you would drop either one with regular dry hand use. :thinking:
Eddited to add. Again I appoligize for my long winded writing. Seems I have to explain to tell a story. Sorry.
nativecajun
