In the 'good old days', before deregulation and 9/11 you could get almost anything onto a 'plane by giving a skycap $5.
I brought back USAF shipping crates full of wine, an OMEGA receiver, among other things. -John =============== > Have to agree about what I have carried on parts. When I get to california > and shop in a few old haunts I end up with strange looking parts. I > through > them in a clearer anti stat bag that I now bring along and send them > through the screening in clear site. Never have an issue an occasional ? > like what are those 3/4" catv cable connectors that look like a large > shell. > Regards > Paul. > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Jim Lux <jim...@earthlink.net> wrote: > >> On 4/18/12 6:56 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:28:17 -0400 >>> Dan Kemppainen<dan@irtelemetrics.**com <d...@irtelemetrics.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Wouldn't get broken if you hand carried it. I've carried on similar >>>> equipment when flying across the US. I'm guessing you may not have to >>>> check it for an internationl flight... >>>> >>> >>> Thanks to Home Land Security, the rules on what you may carry on a >>> plane got very much restricted, especially when flying from and to >>> the US. Basically anything unusual is prohibited. >>> >>> >>> Actually, it's not necessarily TSA/DHS that is the problem.. it's that >> other downstream consumers of the rules may have different >> interpretations. >> >> The guy standing at the gate or checkpoint gets to make an on the spot >> determination of what might be "dangerous" >> >> Example: The small roll of PVC electrical tape I had in my backpack >> being >> taken at secondary inspection (walking down the jetway) in Heathrow when >> getting on the plane home to Los Angeles. Am I going to argue with the >> guy >> from British Airways about specifically which rule he thinks my tape >> violates? When the plane is leaving 3 hours late already? Nope.. >> >> Example: the round pointed school scissors in my daughter's backpack >> getting on the plane in Rome? They were willing to let her take them, >> but >> we said, nope, just throw them away, because next stop is Zurich, and we >> KNOW that they won't make it past the inspection there. I got tagged in >> Zurich before for having my toothpaste tube in a gallon bag, instead of >> the >> required "no more than 1 liter" bag. >> >> So, carrying that oscilloscope on? If the inspector's fiance(e) just >> ran >> off with a EE/CS major the night before, you're doomed. However, in >> general, I've not had many problems with obvious commercially >> manufactured >> gear. And oddly, not much problem with random piles of protoboards and >> boxes with wires and cables stuffed into a backpack, as long as there >> were >> no large "blobs" in the X-ray that weren't obviously batteries on visual >> inspection. (Friends of mine say that trying to carry on a small lead >> acid >> battery that looks like a brick is often a challenge..especially if >> you've >> wrapped it in tape to hold it to the circuit board. >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/** >> mailman/listinfo/time-nuts<https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts> >> and follow the instructions there. >> > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.