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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => Playing Card Plethora => Topic started by: phantom1412 on January 29, 2012, 07:13:53 AM
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Im gonna pack all of my decks and carry it back home.
But im not sure if the weight of all my decks (around 200 decks) would be over the limited weight for the plane. (20 kg)
And i have no weight meter around here, so can anyone please tell me how heavy a deck or a brick could be and ill calculate the rest myself. (in kg please)
(i googled it but i dont know if thats info for standard uspcc deck.)
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It should be slightly over. A deck is just over 100g (can be up to 120g). I had to weigh it for the trade with Don recently and 4 decks was about 430g.
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Nah, I gotta leave some decks here.
I still have to include the weight of the bag. T-T
Even if I could carry 30kg, may be it's not enough.
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When I weighed mine it came to 108 grams - but then again it wasnt in a box and the jokers were missing. You could try to ship the cards back?
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Most of them should be about the same weight. But you have to remember that some decks have extra cards, thicker stocks, thicker boxes, more ink, etc.
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1 brick = 1.2 kilo
the estimate for 200 decks is 20 kilos plus packing materials.
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Thanks everyone for answers, I decided to carry 60 decks on the plane. And the rest in my baggage.
Hope it's fine when I pass the scanning machine.
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I carried a box of around 50 decks onto the plane once and the customs asked me to open it after the scan. He saw the cards and asked me if I was a dealer or going to start a small home casino. i lol'd.
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Worse comes to worse you can try and hand carry as much as you can onto the plane. I'm sure a sportsbag will fit a large amount.
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i'm pretty sure there's a weight limit to the hand-carry baggages too. it's probably somewhere around 23kg depending on your flight and class.
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I will carry around 6-7 kg in the small baggage with me on the plane.
I think the limit of hand carry is around 10kg, but I don't think anyone would weight my baggage.
Even if the limited is 23 kg, I can't carry that much decks. 23 kg is already exceed half of my body weight. LoL
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Thanks everyone for answers, I decided to carry 60 decks on the plane. And the rest in my baggage.
Hope it's fine when I pass the scanning machine.
When traveling by plane from NYC to Fort Lauderdale, FL last year, I had no problems. On the return trip, the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) agents asked to inspect my briefcase containing over 100 decks of cards. I opened the case carefully so as to not make any sudden movements that would "upset" the nice (armed) agents, and once it was open it was pretty clear what was inside. They did a swab test for explosives anyway, and it was negative. Apparently the guy who spotted it on the X-ray was a newbie and didn't recognized what a whole mess of playing cards looks like through the screen - one of the other agents was busting his chops, saying that what she thought it was...
It could have been worse, though - I heard Jason Brumbalow was traveling while wearing Pure Smoke and got stopped by agents...
And as far as your body weight being below 46kg - you must be a waif! In a strong wind you'd take off like a leaf! :))