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Re: Transporting a SSTC on an airplane



Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net> 

The airport scanning machine can easily look through the secondary windings,
and, in fact, can probably tell that it is copper wire.  What WILL get you
stopped and searched is a high Carbon/ Nitrogen ratio or trace residue of
nitrates (e.g. my wife was stopped and searched because her luggage sat on
road flares in the back of the car).  If you used something like
nitrocellulose "dope" to coat your coil you might have a problem or, if you
scavenged your secondary farm from an agricultural area and there is nitrate
residue from fertilizer.  The other thing that raises their attention is a
solid mass of anything (plasticine, cookie dough, etc), especially if there
is a wire going to it and some more radioopaque object in the middle of the
mass.

The folks they're really worrying about don't do homemade explosives. It's
too hard and dangerous when you can just buy the real thing.

The also DO greatly worry about large amounts of flammable liquids (i.e. the
Molotov Cocktail).  The interior of a plane is all plastic, and burns quite
well.  If you're carrying that fifth of Scotch, and the seal is broken,
expect to show that it's really Scotch and not gasoline.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 6:52 AM
Subject: Re: Transporting a SSTC on an airplane


 > Original poster: "Black Moon" <black_moons-at-hotmail-dot-com>
 >
 > Just make sure your homemade caps don't look like homemade explosives! :P
 > Boy would that be fun, getting arrested pending the 2 week lab results on
 > the meterial in the glass bottles your transporting... When it turns out
to
 > be salt water.. heh.
 > Seriously tho, It might help if you could at least 'open' the secondary so
 > that it dosent look like a tube, shealded with metal, so xrays won't work
 > well:P
 > (ie so they can look in one end)
 >
 > >From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > >To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > >Subject: Re: Transporting a SSTC on an airplane
 > >Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 20:15:58 -0600
 > >
 > >Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
 > >
 > >I regularly carry all sorts of electronics (radios, loose PC boards,
 > >masses of wires, etc. through airports.  Sometimes they'll stop you and
 > >ask what in the world it is.  As long as your device doesn't say
something
 > >like "Remote Bomb Detonation Controller" it's probably just fine.
 > >
 > >You'll definitely need good ID, and I wouldn't wear your grungiest
 > >clothes.  In my case, it's very possible that the NASA/JPL employee ID
 > >lets me get away with it when I'm travelling on work.  However, when I
 > >went to England in summer 2002, I carried all my radios, lots of cables
to
 > >interconnect laptops and cameras, etc., and nobody blinked.
 > >
 > >At 05:04 PM 9/2/2003 -0600, you wrote:
 > >>Original poster: "Dan Strother" <dstroth-at-hotmail-dot-com>
 > >>Hey everyone,
 > >>
 > >>I'm going to be attending the Cheesehead Teslathon this weekend, and
 > >>wanted to bring along my SSTC electronics to demonstrate (Steve Ward
will
 > >>be providing me with a coil and whatnot).
 > >>
 > >>Now, I was wondering if anyone could offer advice about transporting the
 > >>SSTC driver electronics on an airplane. They will (hopefully) be
enclosed
 > >>in a nice aluminum project box. Has anyone had experience with carrying
 > >>homemade electronic devices in your baggage, etc? Should I just not risk
it?
 > >>
 > >>
 > >>Thanks,
 > >>Dan Strother
 > >
 >
 >