Empty Cooking Stove Fuel Bottles - Problem?
Jul 21, 2007 | 9:19 pm
#1
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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Empty Cooking Stove Fuel Bottles - Problem?
I'm shortly off to Alaska with a couple of buddies. We're bringing a multifuel camp stove and a couple of (empty) fuel bottles.
Is TSA going to give us grief? Seems dumb to ask, considering the bottles are empty; but one never knows these days.
We're going to ADK, so we really want to get there with the bottles. It would not be good if some enterprising TSA goon relieved us of them.
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Is TSA going to give us grief? Seems dumb to ask, considering the bottles are empty; but one never knows these days.
We're going to ADK, so we really want to get there with the bottles. It would not be good if some enterprising TSA goon relieved us of them.
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Jul 21, 2007 | 10:08 pm
#2
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: AUS
Programs: DL-DM/ 2MM
Posts: 263
I'm shortly off to Alaska with a couple of buddies. We're bringing a multifuel camp stove and a couple of (empty) fuel bottles.
Is TSA going to give us grief? Seems dumb to ask, considering the bottles are empty; but one never knows these days.
We're going to ADK, so we really want to get there with the bottles. It would not be good if some enterprising TSA goon relieved us of them.
.
Is TSA going to give us grief? Seems dumb to ask, considering the bottles are empty; but one never knows these days.
We're going to ADK, so we really want to get there with the bottles. It would not be good if some enterprising TSA goon relieved us of them.
.
Jul 22, 2007 | 4:10 pm
#3
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Dulles, VA
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I think even empty fuel bottles would be considered HAZMAT - you should check with Alaska Airlines, even if you're not flying them. They wrote the book on commercial aviation up there and they'll know for sure what you can and can't take and how to transport it if permissible.
Jul 22, 2007 | 4:59 pm
#4
Join Date: Nov 2005
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Done this many times. First do not take bottles that are marked for fuel. Second clean them out really well. If they smell like fuel they will be gone. Once clean leave the cap off.
Now I personally mark my bottles boldly with the words "PEE BOTTLE". Then I pee in them leaving a little in the bottom.
Here are TSA words of wisdom:
http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtrav...rial_1187.shtm
Now I personally mark my bottles boldly with the words "PEE BOTTLE". Then I pee in them leaving a little in the bottom.
Here are TSA words of wisdom:
http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtrav...rial_1187.shtm