Originally Posted by
cordelli
I went to Home Depot, and for under seven bucks you can get a ten foot piece of 4 inch pvc drain pipe
http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1...1#.UKGpXOTAebs
If you don't have a saw at home, bring it over to the moulding section, measure and cut off a 1 foot long section, and repeat until you have ten pieces of pipe.
A wine bottle fits perfectly inside (even pinot and champagne). You can fill them with your clothing on the trip out, or just buy it there.
I've been using it for years and never had a problem. The stuff is pretty indestructible unless you freeze it in liquid notrogen and hit it with a sledge hammer.
When put in a suitcase, it doesn't scream "somebody steal me, I'm a case of wine" as it's spinning around in the luggage area.
That's a great piece of advice, thank you, never thought about that, we are usually going twice a year to France/Spain/Italy and its always something close to a heart attack to have those bottles in your luggage, with that I can finally test the limits of my baggage allowance
I think you can also buy some caps for those pipes, just to close one side, the other maybe stuffed with old news papers and wedge it a bid, just to don't cause an airport shut down if someone looks through the bag
thx for sharing!