Forty_Two
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My Phoenix 50A charger has a fault & i plan to bring back from Nice tomorrow on BA in my hand luggage. Anyone tried this or similar?
Battery Charger as hand luggage??
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davedpc
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I think you will find BA will only allow up to 40amps but Sleasy jet will allow up to 65. No but seriously if it fits in the little guide box and its not immflamable or toxic will it matter? Dont know what they will make of it through xray though, perhaps you should make the lid easily removeable.
jfm
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You should be fine. I've carried all sorts of boat hardware thru NCE hand luggage, with no problem. Electronic circuit boards, cables, pumps, heavy switchgear, large electric motors, nav electronics, etc. Anyway it's such a fast airport, if they say no you can walk 20m and check it in. It's not like heathrow
Powersalt
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yep, similar to the advice above. I have carried most things in hand luggage. Had a few difficult moments on some equipment when they have asked for it to be switched on to show it works and I have to explain thats why its with me is because its gone wrong rtc etc.
Go for it
Go for it
jfm
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Come to think of it, in all my trips to Nice carrying boat gear in hand baggage, most weekends, I've only had 2 things confiscated.
First was a load of cable ties. Probably 5 packets from Maplin, so maybe 500 of them. The security guy at Luton told me I could use them to strap all the arms of passengers to the arms of the seats, so taking control of the plane. I explained to him that by the time I'd done that to the first 2 or 3 passengers the other 140 would notice and kick my head in. I also asked him, once I'd taken control of the plane, what would I do next? Demand that the pilot fly to Nice? But he thought it was a risk. FFS
The second items were a few of those stainless steel eyebolts, or rather "eye nuts", like a thick stainless steel ring with a threaded hole, that you can attach to a deck with a bolt to make a tie down point. The security guard told me they could be used as knuckle dusters and slipped one onto each of his fingers, clenched his fist, and said "Look, see, like this!". I told him he'd spent too long on Grand Theft Auto on his playstation. He still confiscated them. FFS
So a harmless batt charger will be just fine, unless the security guy has a vivid imagination and says you can connect it to the pilot's seat to make an electric chair or something
MapisM
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Well J, if you think that the cable ties and eyebolts were crazy, tell me what you think of the following fresh story of this afternoon (Nov.4th) at Stanstead. I had this lethal weapon in my bag, which attracted the attention of the security boy (and I mean it - he was in his early twenties), who told me that I couldn't bring it onboard. After showing him the length of the screwdriver bits, which (as I now realise from Maplin site) was 25mm (!), he felt the need to ask his supervisor. And this gentleman was kind enough to give me the choice of keeping either the 8 metal bits OR the screwdriver body, but not both.
I thought of arguing that I could have given the metal bits to my wife, keep the body for myself, and go through the security check separately. But at the end of the day I bought the thingie just 'cause I needed a short handle with a light, and I already had some other metal bits that I could use with it. So, I kept the handle and left the bits. FFS, as you say.
But wait.
Once inside the security area, we went to eat something.
And we could help ourselves from some boxes full of forks and knives. Steel ones, not plastic!
I even took a picture of them, together with the menu of the restaurant inside the security area.
You know, just in case Al-Jazeera would be interested to publish the pic on its website...
I thought of arguing that I could have given the metal bits to my wife, keep the body for myself, and go through the security check separately. But at the end of the day I bought the thingie just 'cause I needed a short handle with a light, and I already had some other metal bits that I could use with it. So, I kept the handle and left the bits. FFS, as you say.
But wait.
Once inside the security area, we went to eat something.
And we could help ourselves from some boxes full of forks and knives. Steel ones, not plastic!
I even took a picture of them, together with the menu of the restaurant inside the security area.
You know, just in case Al-Jazeera would be interested to publish the pic on its website...
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jfm
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Well J, if you think that the cable ties and eyebolts were crazy, tell me what you think of the following fresh story of this afternoon (Nov.4th) at Stanstead. I had this lethal weapon in my bag, which attracted the attention of the security boy (and I mean it - he was in his early twenties), who told me that I couldn't bring it onboard. After showing him the length of the screwdriver bits, which (as I now realise from Maplin site) was 25mm (!), he felt the need to ask his supervisor. And this gentleman was kind enough to give me the choice of keeping either the 8 metal bits OR the screwdriver body, but not both.
I thought of arguing that I could have given the metal bits to my wife, keep the body for myself, and go through the security check separately. But at the end of the day I bought the thingie just 'cause I needed a short handle with a light, and I already had some other metal bits that I could use with it. So, I kept the handle and left the bits. FFS, as you say.
But wait.
Once inside the security area, we went to eat something.
And we could help ourselves from some boxes full of forks and knives. Steel ones, not plastic!
I even took a picture of them, together with the menu of the restaurant inside the security area.
You know, just in case Al-Jazeera would be interested to publish the pic on its website...
Yes it's fantastic stuff. Indeed, if you fly BA club you dont need to bother collecting your metal knives from the airport restaurant. They give you them, together with as many wine glasses and tumbers as you want, on the plane! But a screwdriver Sir? No, you could stab somebody with that, at least to a depth of about 15mm
Nick_H
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Yep, i had a plastic spray gun confiscated, the kind that goes on the end of a hose pipe. I was told "you could hold it under your jumper and pretend it was a gun", to which I replied "well you'd better cut the middle and index fingers off every passenger that comes through then".
