Can you take one in carry-on bag? I have had CO2 cartridges taken away, and a pedal wrench too. Anyone know if torque wrench can be carried on a plane? Trying to travel without checking in a bag… Thanks!
Nope - you might try and explain it, but they kinda frown on anything coming on board that may be used to disassemble the plane in-flight…
I am guessing, “No”.
They seem to zero in on anything weird like that, that looks like some for of “potential weapon”. I made the mistake of leaving my many year old Park Tool Pedal wrench in my brief-case ounce, when traveling as opposed to checked-in with my bike. It was picked up on scanning/x-ray and taken out. They asked what it was, but seemed perplexed by it and said that it had to be confiscated. Being a frequent traveler, I know there is no point in trying to discuss/argue anything with these folks. So, I cheerily, I suggested that they could keep it and sell it to a cyclist, so it finds a good home and use - dull, bored looks all-around!
I am guessing, “No”.
They seem to zero in on anything weird like that, that looks like some for of “potential weapon”. I made the mistake of leaving my many year old Park Tool Pedal wrench in my brief-case ounce, when traveling as opposed to checked-in with my bike. It was picked up on scanning/x-ray and taken out. They asked what it was, but seemed perplexed by it and said that it had to be confiscated. Being a frequent traveler, I know there is no point in trying to discuss/argue anything with these folks. So, I cheerily, I suggested that they could keep it and sell it to a cyclist, so it finds a good home and use - dull, bored looks all-around!
You got that right… they’re completely inflexible… I had a Swiss Army Credit card sized multi-tool taken from me once - the nail file was too large. Dumb.
On a related note, I was behind a guy at Pearson last week who was stopped with a bottle of rum in his satchel - he had just returned from the Bahamas, and was connecting in Toronto and no one told him that the duty-free liqour couldn’t go through… he was about to lose it on the guy, but not because it was being seized, but because the guard wouldn’t go with him to the bathroom and pour it down the sink… ‘If you’re taking it from me, there’s no f*#kin’ way that you’re taking it home!’
My wife had a nail file taken away and then on the plane they gave us metal silverware with lunch. This included a serrated edge butter knife.
It isn’t security, it’s security theater.
Last time I flew the TSA agent almost took all of my 35mm photographic film. She didn’t know what it was. I had to show her online on my phone. Several people were trying to help me explain to her that it is film that records photos. Meanwhile, you know who was waved right through. Morons.
Did they try and take your 8 tracks too?
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It isn’t security, it’s security theater.
LOL, that is so true. Just last week going through TSA in LA, the agent in the front tells my wife that there’s no need to toss my 2 year old’s sippy cup water, it is perfectly “ok”. Then we go through the scanner and they confiscate it so they could run tests on the liquid. We explained that the first agent told us it was ok, and this one replies “it still needs to be tested”. At which point I said, fine - please throw it out then. The guy apparently gets ticked off and has my entire family sit in a room while they took 15 minutes to test the water. Lovely, great system they have going on…
At my local airport they will take your water. In the secure area they have a vending machine that sells bottled water for $4.00 for a 8oz. bottle. You might think the smart move would be to “pre-hydrate” but, alas, there are no bathrooms in the secure area.
Oh, I can bring my coffee in, though. There is no coffee machine in the secure area.
Once I wore a T-shirt that read “Do you feel safer?”.
No flight for me that day.