This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment You guys are travelling by the wrong mode. Gotta go by ship. When I go = onto the big cruise ships to service pianos, I go with my electronic = instrument, big pocket knife, coiled wires, etc. - it goes through the = radar thingee and they never even want to look. Go figure. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Sarah Fox=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 11:11 AM Subject: Re: Traveling with tools Hi Del, A digital caliper?! Geez! Did you ever figure out whether that was a "listed" item? By that, I = mean that the taps were actually listed in the drill bit category, which = is verbotten. Are measurement devices placed on a verbotten list too? = Perhaps the problem was that you had an item of unrecognizable = electronics that they thought might be a bo*mb or a remote control of = some sort? Would a dial-type caliper have passed through more easily? I sometimes need to travel with odd tools and/or measurement devices = and would like to know how to avoid these problems in the future. Does = anyone know where we can find an exhaustive list of prohibited items? BTW, back in the late 1980's, I once had to travel overseas with a = large carry-on bag full of electronic equipment, much of it home-built. = Anticipating trouble from security, I remember carrying letters from = department heads, explaining that I needed the equipment for my = research. Do screeners pay attention to letters and/or professional = documentation, these days? The future of aviation should be interesting to watch. First, there = was Southwest Airlines, with stewartesses in hotpants and gogo boots. = Now there's Air Hooters (or whatever they're called). Soon there will = be NudeAir -- 'cuz we may as well be travelin' nude anyway. ;-) Peace, Sarah ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/23/2a/56/21/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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