Liquid WAX not allowed on planes

[dovski]

I flew to Salt Lake yesterday and am closing out my season at Snowbird. It is warm so I packed to cans of Swix warm weather liquid paraffin. Packed it in my ski bag which I checked. Get to snowbird open my bag and the wax is gone with this note in its place

Frustrating since online it says that small aerosol cans are allowed on planes and these are quite small.

 

[Tony S]

I flew to Salt Lake yesterday and am closing out my season at Snowbird. It is warm so I packed to cans of Swix warm weather liquid paraffin. Packed it in my ski bag which I checked. Get to snowbird open my bag and the wax is gone with this note in its place
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Frustrating since online it says that small aerosol cans are allowed on planes and these are quite small.

Possible the inspector just couldn't read, or didn't bother to. Distinction without a difference, I know.

I had a can of Easy-on in my ski bag and it made it both ways. I think it's roulette.

 

[Philpug]

I am flying out tomorrow and including a leg to ski in Colorado. I was thinking about to pack a can of Liquid Paraffin...not now.

 

[motogreg]

arbitrary nonsense. Any aerosol can has similar risks, I carried on a can of shaving cream just last week.

 

[anders_nor]

put in your toilet article bag, should be good

 

[DanoT]

put in your toilet article bag, should be good

Grow a mustache; tell 'em its mustache wax, or it could be for body hair removal.

 

[dovski]

I agree, had this been in my carry on probably would have been fine as it was pretty small and I could have explained it. Also think my checked bag was spot checked so also probably a random thing, so feel free to take a chance if you are feeling lucky.

 

[François Pugh]

My mother lost a key-chain fob swiss army knife at the airport. It had a pair of scissors, a pair of tweezers and a tiny blade. It was smaller than my little finger. Yeah, I guess I could kill someone with that knife, but if anyone could kill a person with that tiny knife, they could kill them without it.

 

[dan ross]

As I understand it with aerosols it’s about the volatility of the propellant. TSA sees hundreds of common consumer products a day but it’s very likely they’ve never seen your wax before. If it looks even vaguely unfamiliar or industrial, they usually err on the side of caution and toss it. I once made the mistake of putting away some things in my garage before I went on a trip including paint thinner. Despite washing my hands thoroughly with dish soap, there were enough traces of VOC 4 hours later on my hands and thus, my luggage, to trigger the “ special unit” inspection. I almost missed my flight...

 

[cantunamunch]

As I understand it with aerosols it’s about the volatility of the propellant. TSA sees hundreds of common consumer products a day but it’s very likely they’ve never seen your wax before. If it looks even vaguely unfamiliar or industrial, they usually err on the side of caution and toss it.

^This. And not just the propellant but the solvent that keeps the wax in liquid form.

(I'm honestly not sure how anyone is surprised by this - there is a can of WD-40 in the not approved display in most airports. Boeshield T-9 will also get tossed. Shaving cream uses a water based solvent, not even close to being the same thing.)

Briko/Maplus were pretty up front and labeled their cans as not-for-airplanes, which also meant that they had to be ground shipped to you.

This is one of the biggest reasons I stocked up on Vola paste instead of Toko & Swix sprays.

 

[anders_nor]

Grow a mustache; tell 'em its mustache wax, or it could be for body hair removal.

I allready rock a mustache and facial hair!

 

[Tony S]

my checked bag was spot checked

My ski bag is pretty much ALWAYS "spot" checked. The TSA slip inside is one giveaway. Another is the disarray of the contents. The particular bag I have has a non-intuitive closure, which they always screw up. Eventually I wrote "OPEN THIS END" in big letters with marker right on the bag. Since then much better.

 

[raytseng]

yea no aerosols, but a carveout for medical or small amounts of toiletries aerosols.
Thats the key difference if its a toiletry/medical need
Everything else is nonessential. The key is if its flammable.
They're going to assume all aerosols its flammable, unless its like marked all over with non-flammable.
So the burden of proof is on proving its nonflammable.

 

[raytseng]

My ski bag is pretty much ALWAYS "spot" checked. The TSA slip inside is one giveaway. Another is the disarray of the contents. The particular bag I have has a non-intuitive closure, which they always screw up. Eventually I wrote "OPEN THIS END" in big letters with marker right on the bag. Since then much better.

For sure, Ive had the slip in every trip also. I've also taped on a big "open this end" note.
With my db bag , also if it loses a special clip you are SOL, so I also added cheap carabiner clips so that detachable clip doesn't get lost.

I stopped trying to assume there is this sense of privacy or that luggage is treated with whiteglove care. but instead trying to understand and make it easy for the guy making entry level government wages.

 

[bbbradley]

The more you know about TSA, the more scared you would be.

 

[Ogg]

The more you know about TSA, the more scared you would be.

Someone in my extended family works for them. Pure security theater with an abysmal record of catching the stuff they should.

 

[Andy Mink]

One if the last times I flew a woman was KNITTING. Those needle are big.

 

[James]

This ad appears on the page. Sums it up:

 

[pais alto]

My mother lost a key-chain fob swiss army knife at the airport. It had a pair of scissors, a pair of tweezers and a tiny blade. It was smaller than my little finger. Yeah, I guess I could kill someone with that knife, but if anyone could kill a person with that tiny knife, they could kill them without it.

Color me unsurprised.

Pocket Knife | Transportation Security Administration

In general, you are prohibited from traveling with sharp objects in your carry-on baggage; please pack these items in your checked baggage.

www.tsa.gov

Pocket Knives and Airports - TSA Knife Rules

There are few things more handy than a pocket knife. But what happens when you take your knife to an airport? We break down the status of knives on planes and give some ideas on TSA-approved tools you can take passed security.

knife-depot.com

IIRC some of the 2001 hijackers used box cutters as weapons. Tiny blades.

 

[raytseng]

My mother lost a key-chain fob swiss army knife at the airport. It had a pair of scissors, a pair of tweezers and a tiny blade. It was smaller than my little finger. Yeah, I guess I could kill someone with that knife, but if anyone could kill a person with that tiny knife, they could kill them without it.

IIRC some of the 2001 hijackers used box cutters as weapons. Tiny blades.

I dunno that metric of "preventing murders" is a pretty low bar.

There seems to be quite a lot of entitled fliers these days+ because airport rules are it's 5'oClock everywhere, there's loads of alcohol in the mix

So sure likely nobody is going to die, but just because all the situations ended up with "well nobody died" and the plane didn't get hijacked, doesn't mean there was no need for improvement.