[sdiy] OT: gas powered soldering irons?

[Altitude]

You could always UPS ground the gas to where ever you are going in advance..


-----Original Message-----
From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Andre Majorel
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 10:40 AM
To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] OT: gas powered soldering irons?

On 2009-06-09 15:49 +0200, Derek Holzer wrote:

> I had a  look at TSA and Euro regulations, anything butane is 
> definitely  prohibited. Might be better to buy the butane iron locally 
> each time.  Not really an ecological approach, is it?

What is prohibited ? Anything designed to burn butane or just the gas itself
? If the latter, you could travel with the iron and only buy the gas
locally. The problem is, commonly available gas cartridges are probably too
big for you to use in one trip and small gas cartridges may be hard to find.

--
André Majorel <URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/>
_______________________________________________
Synth-diy mailing list
Synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy