cutting plastic cable ties?
Dec 23, 2002 | 10:53 am
#1
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Santa Cruz CA USA
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cutting plastic cable ties?
What am I allowed to carry with me that will but the plastic cable ties that will now lock my suitcases?
My hands are hugely strong? Will small nail clippers do the job?
I will have to purchase something, don't want it confiscated.
In general, might there be someone/something at various baggage claims?
Suggestions?
Sylvia
My hands are hugely strong? Will small nail clippers do the job?
I will have to purchase something, don't want it confiscated.
In general, might there be someone/something at various baggage claims?
Suggestions?
Sylvia
Dec 23, 2002 | 12:14 pm
#3
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Scissors with rounded points are allowed in carry ons. Nail clippers are allowed in carry ons. I have yet to meet a cable tie you can't break by twisting a pen in it (at least not one you would use on luggage).
Dec 23, 2002 | 1:15 pm
#4
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Boston, MA, USA
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If it can wait until you get to your hotel, I'm sure the staff will have something to remove the ties. This has happened to me a couple of times with products that came in blister packs that I could not open otherwise.
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Dec 26, 2002 | 4:10 am
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Cigar cutter?
If you have softsided luggage and don't want to buy rounded scissors just for carry-on, put sharp scissors in the outside pocket of your softside luggage.
If you have softsided luggage and don't want to buy rounded scissors just for carry-on, put sharp scissors in the outside pocket of your softside luggage.
Dec 27, 2002 | 5:52 am
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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Anything long and cylindrical like car keys, pen, pencil, etc. Just stick it through the loop and start twisting around until snaps. Just make sure you leave a little gap in the loop when you attach the plastic. Cinching it too tight will force you to use cutting implement like scissors.