Traveling with your marker
- Thread starter Speedyg4LS
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no mate, your bottle must be detached from the reg. Not only is it a pressurised container, customs and excise will pretty much drill it to check for drugs if they come across it. At least this is what i've been told by a mate who is an officer of that fine calling 
There shouldn't be a big problem in taking the bottles off. you should never locktite them on but like toma says aluminium does like to weld itself together.
If you don't take your bottles off they won't let you fly...
edit: fook - took far too long typing this out. two replies....damn the alchohol!
There shouldn't be a big problem in taking the bottles off. you should never locktite them on but like toma says aluminium does like to weld itself together.If you don't take your bottles off they won't let you fly...
edit: fook - took far too long typing this out. two replies....damn the alchohol!
There shouldn't be a problem taking a bottle off a reg unless someone has been mad enough to use tape or loctite to fix them together which aren't neccesary.
They do have a habit like Mario said of 'fusing' together tightly. I just normally pop the reg in a vice and twist the bottle off. Never damaged a bottle or reg doing this either...
Dave
They do have a habit like Mario said of 'fusing' together tightly. I just normally pop the reg in a vice and twist the bottle off. Never damaged a bottle or reg doing this either...
Dave
well, these bottles are a absolute biach the take the reg off, dont ask me why it just seems impossible,
Either you do it duder, or customs will do it with a powerdrill and a hammer....... Either way, they will have it off.
And they will not reimburse you for another one. I know a friend who had an Angel LCD torn apart a few years back as customs were suspicious about it, and he got it back in about 10 little pieces, none of which were usable. You can imagine how pissed he was!
I think it comes down to, best be safe than sorry. I would imagine that 9 times out of ten you won't get bothered, but it only takes the one in ten to ruin your weekends play.
When you eventually get the reg off the bottle, make sure you don't use any loctite or other means of retainig the bottle. The air when pressurised keeps the bottle tight, trust me.
When you eventually get the reg off the bottle, make sure you don't use any loctite or other means of retainig the bottle. The air when pressurised keeps the bottle tight, trust me.
Speedy the longer you mess about here not listening to people the more chance you have of getting yourself in trouble. If you plan to take your marker abroad then you must be able to show that the bottle is empty and not pressurised. The airline will not allow you to take a pressurised containers aboard. There are signs around airports advising you not to take aerosol can etc, and an air bottle is infinitely more dangerous. Customs will need to check inside the bottle for drugs or dutied goods. By law you have NO right of refusal. They can and will confiscate the bottle and open by whatever means they see fit. I guarantee that you and anyone travelling with you will be rounded up and thoroughly searched, even if they have gone through customs already.
If the reg is stuck then sent it to H-Pac or similar, to get it released. If they cannot do it without damaging it, then it would fail a retest anyway. Your other option is to buy another bottle and reg to use abroad
You may think this sucks, but that's the way it is, sorry m8.
If the reg is stuck then sent it to H-Pac or similar, to get it released. If they cannot do it without damaging it, then it would fail a retest anyway. Your other option is to buy another bottle and reg to use abroad
You may think this sucks, but that's the way it is, sorry m8.
As for Tha Love's experiences... The original lineup of Tha Love was even more suspect than it is now
Pinki with nose rings, earings, tatoos and other piercings that i really can't alk about on here wearing some sort of rubber assault vest type thing...
Terry with a magnetic radar sense to find the nearest cafe for a shmoke an' a pancake
and multiple pieces of metalworkNeal the two foot high karate kid trying to chat up the laydeez at check in.
Tom with tats, etc saying the words GUN and MUGGING loudly in the same sentence whenever airport security/police strolled by!
And me trying to look as though i didn't know any of them!
We were going to Amsterdam in January last year for a 5man that was advertised on here and asked the same sort of questions Speedy is asking on here and again, had 25 different types of advice. In the end we decided honesty to be the best policy and boldly walked up to check in and announced that we were a paintball team and had the usual kit, our regs off the bottles and barrels off MARKERS, etc... Long story short = Check in got on the phone to baggage handlers who refused to touch it, calls to Easyjet in Luton (we were in Gatwick) didn't help... Ended up with the Pilot having the final say on whether we could get on board or not!!! During this time i'd scooted off to British Airways to see if they would take us on a flight that was going out later that day. They were great - i took my Impy to the check in desk and showed the lady my weapon
She took it off to show someone else to check it was ok. 10 minutes later she came back. Absolutely fine... and apologised for taking so long apparently it had taken 2 minutes to check and then everyone in the office had wanted to play with it Anyways, almost booked the tickets when Pinki called me up and told me to run back cos the SleazyJet pilot had given the all clear. As i posted earlier, we literally ran around Gatwick in order to get onto the plane before they shut the doors. The rest of the passengers weren't too happy that they were being held up and then we ran on! See team description above and put yourself in the other passengers shoes for a second!
And this was all before we'd even left Blighty!
ahhh good story
on the way back from germany as most of us had armiegeddons, we just unscrewed the bottles from the reg, but they still had there valves on them. and all they asked us to do was show them that the guage said zero on it. and they were fine /
on the way back from germany as most of us had armiegeddons, we just unscrewed the bottles from the reg, but they still had there valves on them. and all they asked us to do was show them that the guage said zero on it. and they were fine /
The point that has been made about the bottles being open so customs can look inside them holds true though... I'd rather not risk getting to the airport and then being told that it needs to be off. I'm not sure how i'd go about getting a reg off in the middle of Heathrow with 30mins to go until my flight took off