Flying with tools / parts
Does anyone know if the TSA will allow me to take clipless pedals / pedal wrench in my carry on bag?
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I just flew across half the country with Multi-tool and small pedal/15mm wrench. The stopped me on both legs of the trip for a closer look. No pedals, but they would be fine, there is nothing about pedals that would prevent them from being okay. You can't take CO2 cartridges.
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Up to 2 (?) CO2 cartridges can be carried aboard according to the TSA website. I don't have the TSA printout handy but I have carried them (and a copy of the handout for local inspection) with inflatable personal flotation devices.
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Unless things have changed, your wrench has to be 6 inches or shorter. I used to fly with an adjustable wrench in my bag and they would always measure it.
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Originally Posted by MarkWW
(Post 14559797)
Unless things have changed, your wrench has to be 6 inches or shorter. I used to fly with an adjustable wrench in my bag and they would always measure it.
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Originally Posted by Rubato
(Post 14559755)
Up to 2 (?) CO2 cartridges can be carried aboard according to the TSA website. I don't have the TSA printout handy but I have carried them (and a copy of the handout for local inspection) with inflatable personal flotation devices.
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Originally Posted by maidenvoyage
(Post 14559706)
Does anyone know if the TSA will allow me to take clipless pedals / pedal wrench in my carry on bag?
I lost my favorite #2 Phillips to those ********. The pedals should be fine. |
If you have a checked bag, put the pedal wrench inside. The pedals will pass no problem, but there's language in the rules saying tools as a class are banned, some understand this to mean heavy or large tools, ie. over 6", but I've known 2mm allen wrenches to be confiscated.
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It may also depend on how clean they are. I flew once with some used motorcycle parts in my carry-on, and when it went through the x-ray scanner dealie, it detected hydrocarbons, which required going through another scan where they took swabs and ran them through another machine. Nothing was confiscated, but it was a pain.
If there's grease or oil on your parts, you might trigger the same alarms I did. |
I used to carry a pedal wrench until I had to retun it to my car in the parking lot or get it confiscated (luckily I was early for that flight). Since then I only travel with pedals that I can install with an allen wrench, and the ones I travel with have a socket that my multi tool will work with. If not, I would just carry an individual L-shaped allen wrench of the proper size.
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