Air Travel with the GG

[Torqueguy]

I've been looking for a way to bring my GGTS when I travel. Ecigs are not prohibited but my GG's usually cost me some time as some brain dead TSA zombie tries to prove himself by pulling my bag out of the machine, going through my stuff etc. i try not to waste time explaining things to idiots and have determined that the best policy is to get through the line with zero attention getters. I just found this metal sunglass case that looks, well, like a sunglasss case. The metal will block the image of the contents yet is small enough and innocent looking enough to hopefully streamline the security process.
this will hold and protect a full size collapsed GGTS with Ody up top. My juice goes in my shaving kit and an ounce will last well over a week. 6 18530's ride in an innocent looking flashlight that has been modified for this purpose and the whole kit now comes with me on carry-on.
Any other suggestions?

 

[Bonehead]

I am in Cabo ATM. Traveling w/ the GG is no problem. I think just openly placing in the tray is the best way to do it. No questions. Sure the image maybe blocked w/ a metal sunglass case, but this may add to any suspicion. Also they will open the case anyway since they can't see inside.

 

[CaptSteve]

Torq I go through airports around the world daily due to the job. Trust me when I say that that case however nice doesn't block anything. The technology they have now has come a long way but again as Bonehead said if they can't see inside that's a pretty much a guarantee that they'll do a personal search.
Best policy is just don't conceal anything, you're doing nothing illegal so you have no reason to hide anything.

 

[Torqueguy]

Ok, point taken. My concern is they'll confiscate the thing. I fly to Belgium and Japan alot and know ecigs are illegal there

 

[CaptSteve]

If you're entering a Country were e-cigs are illegal they can confiscate it sure. I never take a GG to a place were they're illegal. If you do I suggest you strip it down to pieces and put it in checked baggage, if they ask say it's samples of machined parts.

 

[Para]

If you're entering a Country were e-cigs are illegal they can confiscate it sure. I never take a GG to a place were they're illegal. If you do I suggest you strip it down to pieces and put it in checked baggage, if they ask say it's samples of machined parts.

Excellent advice.....in pieces, it's just a bunch of harmless looking metal parts.

 

[Rick.45cal]

I just flew with mine. I disassembled one in my checked bag, and before security I disassembled and place mine in my carry on. No one ever bothered me at all.

FYI they use MRI's to check your luggage, essentially they can unpack your bag before it leaves the machine. Case or not, the contents will be seen. Best not to hide things, just take it apart, problem solved.

 

[Huffelpuff]

Torque, wear the "GG" Shirt - maybe it will help

 

[CaptSteve]

Torque, wear the "GG" Shirt - maybe it will help

He'll really get busted then

 

[Moshmarr]

I just flew with mine as well, spent a few weeks in Sweden- I followed Steve's advice and took it apart, placed each part in its own plastic baggie (leftover bags from COV orders), put all the pieces in a quart-sized ziploc and put it in checked baggage. Per dspin, I also enclosed some printouts from COV, in case anyone was skeptical as to what it was exactly.
I carried on a stealth, taken apart as well, and drip mode ody, likewise. No problems at all, just left it in my carryon- was never even pulled out of line.
Another bit of great advice Steve gave me was to make sure there's no liquid in the Ody at all. If there is, I'd think you could just put it in the quart bag with the rest of your liquids if carrying on.
Of course, I've never travelled to a country where ecigs are illegal, yet. I'd of course leave out the documentation in that case, but a disassembled Ody/TS would certainly seem to be less suspicious than atties/cartos if security in one of those countries was looking for such items.

 

[Huffelpuff]

Maybe a small lightbulb inside of Ody - tell them it's a flashlight for reading

 

[denali_41]

FYI they use MRI's to check your luggage,

no they don't !! checking luggage with a MRI is extremely dangerous !! the M stand for magnetic so anything metal in your luggage would go flying around tearing up everything in its path and give problems to people with pacemakers or any other metal object that are magnetic in their body

 

[CaptSteve]

denali you're right it's not an MRI it just looks like one. It's a 360 degree scanner (x-ray)

 

[Torqueguy]

Maybe a small lightbulb inside of Ody - tell them it's a flashlight for reading

I have a flashlight head with a 510 fitting that I screw into my travel GGTB's This is a handy device.

 

[wreimer]

Absolutely correct. It is NOT an MRI, it is a dual backscatter x-ray system that is used for bag scanning. Also as Capt. Steve said, the metal sunglass case is going to do nothing other than alert the pre-board screening agents that you're trying to transport something in a sunglass case that is NOT sunglasses. The same back-scatter technology is employed at the security checkpoints as is used for checked luggage, simply smaller. There's really no reason to carry it in your in cabin luggage unless you're vaping on board an aircraft, which will land you in hot water anyway. play it safe, but it in your checked baggage. Dis-mantle it if you feel the need...or not. it's unlikely that it will matter to the TSA people regardless, other than a bunch of metal components, seemingly serving no purpose, fine spools of wire, etc. may make them suspicious.

 

[Huffelpuff]

I love this thread! Although vaping is legal in most places we still need to work so hard to conceal our stuff while those who REALLY are doing damage with 2nd hand smoke from tobacco cigarettes can walk around w/ their stinkies. We need to start a movement or something to get the word out. (Not near an airport though )

 

[CaptSteve]

I have a flashlight head with a 510 fitting that I screw into my travel GGTB's This is a handy device.

Torq that's nice pal, where did you get the flashlight head with the 510 fitting???? Did you make it?? I need one of those big time

 

[rwechsler]

Torq that's nice pal, where did you get the flashlight head with the 510 fitting???? Did you make it?? I need one of those big time

Saber Flashlight
There's a link cap, enjoy. I need to get myself one for all the traveling I'm doing this summer.

 

[CaptSteve]

Absolutely correct. It is NOT an MRI, it is a dual backscatter x-ray system that is used for bag scanning. Also as Capt. Steve said, the metal sunglass case is going to do nothing other than alert the pre-board screening agents that you're trying to transport something in a sunglass case that is NOT sunglasses. The same back-scatter technology is employed at the security checkpoints as is used for checked luggage, simply smaller. There's really no reason to carry it in your in cabin luggage unless you're vaping on board an aircraft, which will land you in hot water anyway. play it safe, but it in your checked baggage. Dis-mantle it if you feel the need...or not. it's unlikely that it will matter to the TSA people regardless, other than a bunch of metal components, seemingly serving no purpose, fine spools of wire, etc. may make them suspicious.

All absolutely correct. The more you try and conceal stuff guys the more suspicious they get. I once was talking with one of the TSA supervisors at Kennedy and he said we know about e-cigs but some stuff we see is crazy so we need to pull them out and inspect them. He was talking about the carry on stuff, he did say that checked in stuff they won't inspect unless it looks suspicious when scanned. I figure these box mods must really look like a suspicious devise when scanned. I mean think of it a box, with wires and a battery. So please be smart when you travel, remove batteries. That is number ONE

 

[Torqueguy]

Saber Flashlight
There's a link cap, enjoy. I need to get myself one for all the traveling I'm doing this summer.

Thanks for the pick up Rick. The light is very well made and at 6v, the light is blindingly bright