I know this is about SAK's, but did they OK larger scissors? Can I bring a LM Style CS or Micra now?
It makes you wonder though...where did the 2.36" figure come from? How did they arrive at 2.36" as being "safe for air travel"?
Scissors have always been ok to bring on-board, as far as I know. I have flown with my Wenger Air Traveler several times, and it has scissors. I placed it on the x-ray machine conveyer belt with the tools open, so they could easily see it had no blade. I was prepared to be hassled, but nobody even mentioned it.I just measured the main blade on my Executive as 5.5 cm from the tip to where it meets the knife. I only have a beat up old ruler, not a tape measure, so it may not be an exact measurement, but I don't see how it could possibly measure 6 cm.
In Korea here, it's limited to 5.5cm... Hmm... Wonder if my Victorinox manager can get through...Has anybody here got a SwissChamp XLT confiscated
Can someone with an exec measure the blade form tip to liner. 60mm is the cutoff, if the entire lenght is beyond 6 cm, it be too long.
Was this rule change ever made official?Cheers
Quote from: papercut on March 29, 2013, 06:59:02 AMCan someone with an exec measure the blade form tip to liner. 60mm is the cutoff, if the entire lenght is beyond 6 cm, it be too long. Using my SwissChamp fishscaler scale: the Exec's blade is exactly 2 1/8" (2.125") from body of knife to tip of larger blade, just under 5/16" wide - less than the TSA's new standard of 2.36" (6 mm?) x .5". Wenger's Patriot/watch-opener: just over 2 5/16" (2.3125") (about 5.7 mm) x 3/8". Vic's Classic and Wenger's Esquire are of course considerably smaller than these. These are all too long: Wenger's standard blade at 2 9/16", Vic's 84 mm model blade at 2 1/2", Vic's standard blade at over 2 11/16". The Cadet's even longer at 2 3/4". Victorinox's gardener series are 1/2" wide but over 2 1/2" long. The small blade of Wenger and Vic Officer's models is OK.Glad I can retire my Manager with the blade broken off as travel knife. I wouldn't trust the TSA agent with a full-size SAK scissors tho - might hurt himself with it. "There is no such thing as a dangerous weapon - only dangerous men." Robert Heinlein
Read this article(Image removed from quote.)So if you are coming home from somewhere and you do not have to go through US security you can buy knives and bring them back?
My Super Tool pin was nearly confiscated last week