traveling with tuning tools

[Brian Lawson]

Hi, Last year when I went for my RPT exams I flew to the US with my tool
case, it had to go as baggage.


Brian Lawson, RPT
Johannesburg, South Africa
http://www.lawsonic.co.za

TEXOMA CHAPTER
http://www.texomachapter.org


----- Original Message -----
From: <Tvak@AOL.COM>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 6:28 AM
Subject: traveling with tuning tools


> I'm off to Reno tomorrow, and just to be safe, I called United Airlines to
> inquire if I would have any trouble taking my tuning kit on the airplane.
> The woman at United asked me what kind of tools was I planning to take on
the
> airplane?  I told her I had screwdrivers, pliers, a tuning hammer...  She
> interrupted, "How many screwdrivers?"  OK... "I have two big ones, a
phillips
> head and a standard, and two small ones, also a phillips and a standard."
I
> was put on hold until she could talk to a supervisor.  She came back a
minute
> or two later and said she wanted a complete list of all the tools that I
> wanted to take on the plane.  However, if I wanted to stow the tools in my
> baggage, it was fine.
>
> I told her I would just take my hammer, mutes and tuning fork, and stow
them
> in my luggage.
>
> That's all I'll really need in Reno, but what if I was taking the
technical
> test and I needed my tools?  I guess I'd just have to stow them in with
the
> baggage.
>
> Anyone else ever experience any difficulties traveling with your tools?
> Never having flown anywhere with my tools before, I was just lucky that I
had
> the sudden impulse to call the airline and check.
>
> Tom S.