Eclipse fluid can not be on flight even in "checked-in" luggage ?

I know eclipse fluid (sensor cleaning) is flamable and all, and can

not be carried on flight.. but can it not be carried even inside the

checked-in suitcase?

 

I'm going to California next week .. and.. well, if they won't let me

carry eclipse in both hand luggage and checked-in luggage, .. should

I just take a chance of slipping it inside the checked-in luggage ?

Why don't you just buy some when you get there if you are so worried aout it orship to your self with UPS ground or FedEx green?

How about asking TSA. They have a web-site, too.

I get my photo back pack hand checked about half the time I fly, usually when they freak out because they see the 9mm box end wrench I use to assemble my camera bracket with in the X-ray and think I'll unbolt the wings of the plane in flight or something.

 

Every time they paw through the bag they see and sometimes even hold the eclipse fluid , and NEVER even mention it.

 

Just throw in in your camera bag.

Flammable materials are prohibited in checked baggage. If anything, the risk to you and your fellow passengers in checked baggage is quite a bit GREATER than the risk in carry on. Checked baggage gets handled much more roughly, and if a leak develops during flight, there's less opportunity to discover it and seal things up again, since nobody is nearby. Remember <a href="http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/1997/AAR9706.htm">ValuJet 592</a> and don't carry flammable materials in the cargo compartment of airliners.

I suggest you visit www.visibledust.com because they even Sensor Brushes that don't even need compressed air, and are thus ideal for air travel.

 

Pierre

>>Flammable materials are prohibited in checked baggage. If anything, the risk to you and your fellow passengers in checked baggage is quite a bit GREATER than the risk in carry on. Checked baggage gets handled much more roughly, and if a leak develops during flight, there's less opportunity to discover it and seal things up again, since nobody is nearby. Remember ValuJet 592 and don't carry flammable materials in the cargo compartment of airliners.<<

 

Reminds me of the time I was travelling Space-Available (ie hitchhiking) in the cargo compartment (sometimes the cargo is people) of a USAF C-130 from Honolulu to Little Rock, Arkansas. It was carrying a single huge cylinder of hydrogen, which I used as footrest during the flight.

A bottle of hydrogen is muchless dangerous than a bottle of oxygen at crusing altitudes.

There is 250000$ fine and few years of prison probably if they consider this as crime.

So, putting it in the checked-in bag is much more risky than carrying it with me in my camera backpack..I didn't realize that.

 

But, if they don't allow the eclipse to carry-on, will they accuse me of crime or will just ask me to dispose it ?.. I'm going to ask this to my airlines and security as well.

 

I mean, I was asked to dispose a few alakaline batteries (AA) on Air India once, I couldn't care less about that. If the same thing happens with Eclipse, well that's fine too. But if carrying eclipse is viewed similar to carrying narcotics or a gun, I'll surely choose a dirty sensor over being accused of a crime :)

 

I don't have the visible dust brush, but I do have a similar pesudo-visible-dust-brush that I bought from an aparently reputed seller on eBay. It works okay, guess I will live with that for this trip.

And I had to throw away my favorite lighter a few yrs ago..

I flew with eclipse fluid about 8 times in the last year. My camera backpack got searched and they were only interested in the wirey things inside (like the battery charger and a USB lead). I think thats what prompted the search. They never looked twice at the eclipse. Anyway, if its in a compartment with some other cleaning stuff (mine was next to the pec pads) it just looks natural anyway... shouldn't raise any suspicion. Just fly, and if the worst happens and they ask you about it, just tell them its cleaning fluid, act all shy and niave and you'll have no problem.

 

Don't bother asking airport security about such things. They do the job because of the power rush they get when they bark orders at you. I have no respect for these people anymore.

Thought I should just update the post for future reference.. I have carried the eclipse fluid box in the camera bag and no one even cared to look at it... several times, since my first post.

<p>I always travel with lens cleaning fluid, sensor cleaner and swabs in my camera bag. Lens cleaner also contains flammable alcohol. As it is in a spray container; it would be far more potentially hazardous than an screw capped bottle of sensor cleaner.<br>

Some high strength spirits sold in duty free shops and on board; are not exactly inflammable either.</p>