I'm in the planning stages of a tour from Chicago to Florida. The idea is to ride a bus or take a flight to Chicago and then ride home to North Florida. When I tour locally, I bring my old and trusty Seva 123 stove and a bottle of unleaded. I'm wondering if, even when empty, I'll be able to get the stove and fuel bottle on a bus or plane as baggage. I figure that I can do a good job of cleaning them out (soap and water?) before packing and perhaps that will prevent the alarms from going off. Any ideas?
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Re: Flying/bus'ing with a stove
Sun, April 6, 2008 - 1:43 PMCall the airline!
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Re: Flying/bus'ing with a stove
Fri, April 11, 2008 - 8:18 PMDon't even think about flying with it. The bus, well, don't ask, don't tell. -
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Re: Flying/bus'ing with a stove
Sat, April 19, 2008 - 12:51 PMI've flown with it recently. Clean it and seperate pump from bottle.
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Re: Flying/bus'ing with a stove
Sat, April 26, 2008 - 9:34 AMi have flown numerous times with my MSR and used fuel bottles. i have never been really good about cleaning the whole thing,
the paranoia seems to be on the rise in TSA land, so who knows.
a friend of mine cleans the stove really well and buys a new bottle for the trip, then gives it away before flying home. not a bad idea.
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Re: Flying/bus'ing with a stove
Sun, May 11, 2008 - 9:41 PMperhaps you have an option to send the stove ahead via UPS? (cleaned of course)
i wouldn't use soap and water to clean it - i'd use a good engine cleaner -
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Re: Flying/bus'ing with a stove
Fri, May 16, 2008 - 1:52 PMalso this:
not quite what you asked about, but alcohol stoves are super lightweight, and easy to travel with. the alcohol evaporates or is burned off, and you have a clean stove that doesn't even look like a stove. Trangia makes a very popular one in Europe. You can buy rubbing/denatured alcohol pretty much anyplace, so refueling is easy.
i took this Vargo stove to Burning Man last year - it was quick and easy
www.rei.com/product/752671
the trangia even comes with a little pot and plate/lid
www.rei.com/product/657906
if you get an alcohol stove, practice with it a few times at home to get the hang of it. the flame is very quiet and almost invisible in bright light (daylight) so i found that sometimes I couldn't tell if it was going or not. (in all cases, it WAS burning, but i couldn't tell until my hand almost burned. Now I know how to check it.)
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