Re: Commercial flight restrictions

From: Leo Pilachowski <leop_at_lyradev.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:26:44 -0000

Many fliers check or even carryon small amounts of glue and solvent when flying in the US. After all, many people carryon or check small amounts of cosmetics, such has nail polish, everyday. But, it is good to take the precautions and be careful, especially on international flights.

If one can use Duco Cement, Duco is available, especially in the bottle form rather than the tube (same product) at many hardware stores in the US, as is acetone. I am sure that we can arrange to have a bottle of Duco and a can of acetone available at Kibbie for those flying in.

One can also let one's glue harden into a lump (either Duco or Ambroid). Then, flakes of this hardened glue can be dissolved in acetone after arrival. In fact, many fliers do just this with all of their glue as they want to control the solvents in the mixture. One long time flier told me he still use flakes from glue he dried up decades ago.

LP

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "rodney.oneill67" <rodney.oneill@...> wrote:
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> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, Jake Palmer <82.jake@> wrote:
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> > I'm planning to fly to West Baden and it looks like pretty much every glue
> > and thinner I use is prohibited both for carry on and checked luggage. How
> > do you guys handle this when flying to contests? I don't want to have my
> > entire toolbox confiscated just because of a 1 ounce bottle of acetone.
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> Hi folks
> I shall be flying to the Kibbie this year from the UK and I would not risk having my baggage confiscated or held so that I missed my flight, just because I packed any prohibited item. I hope that by June I shall have arranged to get some glue and acetone in Seattle, before travelling on to the Kibbie.
> Rodney O'Neill
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