On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:53:30 -0400, wrote:

If this is a typical Maglite then trash it. The switch mechanism will
never be trouble free after the light is a few years old.

What do you base your statement on? I have several of their
flashlights and they all work well. One of my 3-Cell flashlights is
over 20 years old and has spent all of those years in a non-heated
garage.

G.S.