Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Now that you mention it, we used to make unbelievably sharp glass knives for cutting sections in electron microscopy. You just score the glass at an angle, slowly add pressure to one side, and the glass snaps, leaving a knife edge much sharper than a razor. I hope we aren't giving anyone any ideas. :-0 Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Marc James Small Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 5:07 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: [Leica] Airline Security and Box Cutters At 10:34 AM 7/16/04 -0500, Jeffery Smith wrote: >Not good. One could get on board with a pen knife in his butt crack. > >When I bought an Adorama equipment case, it came with a cheap razor >blade sort of thing for cutting the foam. About the length of your >middle finger, with a sharp blade that folds into a folded metal >housing. My impression when seeing it was "not good". Unlike the big, >fat Stanley box cutters, it was very concealable. Jeffrey I have been stunned that no terrorist has tried to use a box cutter with a glass blade. These could easily be made and would be completely neutral to a metal detector. Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information