Very nice work Lear.
Using a metal tube is a problem with N-Channel Mosfet such as the one you show in the link because ALL of your negative connections have to break through the mosfet.
Unless...... you turn your battery backwards and put the positive on the bottom cap spring. This means the outer tube and battery/atty connectors outside casing will be positive and the center pin of the battery/atty connector will be negative.
The mosfet will then have to break the regulator negative only. Drain (D) to regualtor (-) and Source (S) to battery (-).
IF this is a single cell:
The mosfet that you show has a Vgs(th) voltage of 1v so it will work with a Single cell mod. The Rds ON is 12mOhm which is good (low).
FOR TWO cells, most of us are using a Vgs(th) of around 4v w/ as low as you can get Rds ON resistance.
I would have gone w/ a P-Channel so you wouldn't have to reverse the battery and just break the positive from the battery to (+) of the regulator. Remember 4v Vgs(th) for two cells.
P-ch STP12PF06 touch for 08100w:
http://breaktru.com/smf/index.php/topic,244.msg1932.html#msg1932Anyone here see anything I may have missed?