Travel with Tools - TSA Concerns?
Sep 1, 2009, 9:08 am
#16
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 684
I appreciate the advice on buying tools but you are not a professional, I am. with over 20 years of experience. And I won't use lousy tools, they are dangerous, inefficient and produce bad results even in skilled hands. If I were a chef worried about checking my "set-up", would you say get some knives at the local hardware store...
My original question was about security of the tools, TSA hassles at the airport etc.
So if someone has travelled with tools, post 9/11, please help me out.
Thanks again
My original question was about security of the tools, TSA hassles at the airport etc.
So if someone has travelled with tools, post 9/11, please help me out.
Thanks again
Your comparing apples and oranges, traveling with knives is easy since they are lightweight and take up little space, tools are heavier and take up more space. But I'm not saying anything that a professional such as yourself knows already.
Last edited by magellan315; Sep 1, 2009 at 9:24 am
Sep 4, 2009, 12:14 pm
#17
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: On the fast track to dirt status, Raleigh, NC
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Anybody have experience with traveling with tools in the US and the seven inch rule? Going to move an apartment out and will need a screwdriver and wrench. I do not want to waste time going to Sears to buy stuff I already have. Also do not want to check.
Sep 4, 2009, 12:17 pm
#18
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: FrostByte Falls, Mn
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Break down the stuff you can break down so that everything is well under 7 inches. No hammers and smaller is better.
Sep 6, 2009, 10:42 am
#19
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: ORD
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My 10mm wrench (4in long) in my bag was confiscated by TSA a month ago. The night before the trip, I have to replace my car battery and I slip my wrench in my laptop bag afterwards. I forgot the whole thing until the X-ray scanner found it.
Sep 6, 2009, 12:04 pm
#20
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Sep 9, 2009, 6:45 am
#21
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: On the fast track to dirt status, Raleigh, NC
Posts: 1,085
Update on my experience.
At RDU, TSA fondled the ziploc with my short tools in it. At LGA, it went through the xray without a second glance. But I needed some hex head wrenches but fortunately a helpful neighbor let me use some of his tools to dismantle the furniture.
What a change from the times when TSA confiscated my key chain bottle opener because it was a tool and "you might try to take the plane apart" with it.
At RDU, TSA fondled the ziploc with my short tools in it. At LGA, it went through the xray without a second glance. But I needed some hex head wrenches but fortunately a helpful neighbor let me use some of his tools to dismantle the furniture.
What a change from the times when TSA confiscated my key chain bottle opener because it was a tool and "you might try to take the plane apart" with it.