Originally Posted by
RichardKenner
It's the same with cables in a bag. A few won't cause a bag check, but a lot of cables combined with a bunch of relatively dense stuff will. But there's no way to give some exact numbers because it depends very strongly on such essentially random things as what shadows what.
Not necessarily true. My bag has at least 20 various cables and lots of dense stuff. It is always packed exactly the same way as it is the only way everything will fit. Sometimes it is checked, sometimes it is not. It is a mystery to why it does not get the ETD every time. It should.
As for the cuff links, keep them away from the vertical sides, walk with your hands out front, and they will be less likely to set it off.