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edgeless cutters and hand luggage

stillshunter

stillshunter

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I get that Australian airlines won't let razor blades in your carry-on luggage (I can throw them in my checked luggage or mail forward), but has anyone experienced any dramas with taking your gelded (bladeless) DE in your hand luggage?

I'm pretty darn confused as the Prohibited Items - Domestic clearly states that razor blades cannot be carried in hand luggage. and it goes on to say:
"The following items may be taken on board in your carry-on bags at the discretion of the security screening officer at the airport:
  • …..
  • Safety razors
And the Prohibited Items - Exceptions clearly states that Safety Razors are OK for carry-on. So on the one hand there is a clear ruling in the Exceptions and then a discretion clause. Bloody legalese!!!

Are "Safety Razors" referring to modern cartridge razors only or is the original Safety Razor included in this definition? Happy enough to take print-outs of this stuff to argue with airport security - have done so in the past to get my film through without being scanned - as x-rays fog fast films.

Be keen to learn from others experience so I can be sure that my DE razor is not staying at the airport based on airport staff confusing "discretion" with "excusable low IQ".
 
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I've taken empty DE razors through security in carry on.

I actually take them out of my bag and put in the tray with the mobile as they will get it out anyway.

Most guys have never seen one and look at it but once I explain what it is and how it works they are OK.
 
Thanks @Mark1966 .
My face is so appreciative of the discovery that I think it would rebel into a termite mound of ingrown hairs if I regress to a cartridge during my travels - seriously not sure what it would do if I took to it again with a Contour or Sensor…let alone some 5 blade vibrating lubed head.
 
No problems, but if the guy doing the xray checking does know what it is, you will have to open the bag for them to check there is no blade inside.
 
eggbert said:
No problems, but if the guy doing the xray checking does know what it is, you will have to open the bag for them to check there is no blade inside.
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Which is why I take it out and put it in the tray.

I just found that being up front and showing you have nothing to hide is not only quicker but gives them the confidence to be OK with it.

Mind you when I travel I take my Sensor Excel at the moment and even up to a week it is fine to use. I'm getting a Contour to try the cheaper blades of those as a travel alternative. I cannot be bothered with DE as I usually only have carry on. My trip to the UK in November might be different.
 
eggbert said:
No problems, but if the guy doing the xray checking does know what it is, you will have to open the bag for them to check there is no blade inside.
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Hey Eggy. What if it's in three pieces?
Do you reckon they'd give the same attention to a SPUD or PJ's Plastics (a.k.a., bakelite)?
ask me to retrieve the bag
P.S., thinking another line of defence would be to put a fresh stick of arko into the same toiletries bag. That'll teach 'em when they unzip for a closer inspection!
 
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Mark1966 said:
Which is why I take it out and put it in the tray.

I just found that being up front and showing you have nothing to hide is not only quicker but gives them the confidence to be OK with it.

Mind you when I travel I take my Sensor Excel at the moment and even up to a week it is fine to use. I'm getting a Contour to try the cheaper blades of those as a travel alternative. I cannot be bothered with DE as I usually only have carry on. My trip to the UK in November might be different.
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Nah could not go back to a cartridge now. It's not just the ingrown hairs but the clogging - hate that rinse, tap, rinse, tap, tap, rinse, tap, tap, TAP!!!
….and what are you using for lubricant during these trips @Mark1966 ...canned goop?
 
No I take a shave stick (Euro Palmolive in a repurposed clue stick at present) and my synthetic travel brush :)
 
Nonick said:
I'm guessing a straight is right out :-(

Pity
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You could try... I'd love to watch you explain it to airport security:
"It's a cut throat razor. Not that I cut throats with it. I just use it to shave. It's bloody sharp you know."
 
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