OT: Suitcase Marking

Replace the rollers or handle with something of a decidedly "unmatching" style/color.

Personally, anytime I've had to fetch someone's bags, a description like "the blue one with the *fat* red yarn" was sufficient. A business card tucked in a luggage tag serves to sort out any ambiguities.

Learn to travel less. It is a delightfully "liberating" experience (though clients often *try* to insist, otherwise)

I found that the customs labels and various other labels that get slapped on in various countries makes my baggage quite unique. I don't know what sort of adhesive backing they use in places like the Caribbean but it won't come off.

Maybe stop at the fan shop in Glendale and buy some Arizona Cardinals stickers?

On some older hand tools of mine I had use leftover paint from when I repainted my Citroen, to be able to see which tools are mine at ham radio events and such. That turned out to be impossible to remove from just about any material.

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I use tags on my luggage. I SCUBA dive, so my tags are 2x3 inch heavily laminated cards with the red background and white diagonal slash on both sides. They have a hole through which I put a nylon tie wrap and then through a metal part of the handle of the bag.

If I can see the handle or wherever I put the tag, I can identify my bag immediately.

Any other bright, unusual symbol on the tag will work.

John S

Ah... Another exercise in creative thinking. Good for electronics. My list of whatever came to mind good or bad.

Put suitcase in bright orange bag. Stick on bright reflective sign grade adhesive vinyl. 3M Sick on bright colored alligator vinyl. Bolt on shiny steel plates. Bolt/glue on brightly colored anodized aluminum sheets or strips. Use bright paint and then cover with acrylic protective sheet. Use bright tinted acrylic sheet. Iridescent acrylic. Use shiny polished aluminum sheets or strips. Use shiny studs for punk suitcase. Diamond sparkles :) Put your suitcase in a shiny steel frame. Stick or bolt on automotive/bicycle reflectors. Don't use a ribbon. Use a steel chain. Don't use a suitcase. Stick on glow sticks. When your suitcase is rough handled it'll glow. Stick a huge bright heavy duty plastic tag on the handle. Buy a unique suitcase. It's not a problem.

We traditionally used a piece of orange yarn about a foot long tied to the handle. long enough to see, but not long enough to get caught on things...

Charlie

Wonder if any of the "reflective sign grade adhesive vinyl" will withstand bag handlers. I kid you not, I saw handlers at O'Hare _throwing_ suitcases over large distances with about a 50% drop rate :-( ...Jim Thompson

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Acrylic Paints usually stick to rubber and fabric well. I use those big whitish tiewraps in strategic places to identify my carry on, since eveyone else has the same one.

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Colored wire ties locking it shut. Not many people use white ones, let alone colored ones.

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The fluorescent wire ties I bought are much more brittle than the 'natural' or black color, so I would leave them a little loose rather than reef on them as I normally do.

--Winston

The best method I know of is thick, brightly coloured plastic tags attached with small leather belts (generally salvaged from previous luggage). Those hold up well, and aren't nearly as dorky looking as paint.

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TSA'll cut 'em off.

Simulation software hasn't been made yet for this sort of thing. I have sign grade vinyl (black) but I have no way of testing it.

Sure, but only if they want to open the suitcase. That rarely happens, IME.

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100%, IM recent E. Even when I opened it up & rifled the contents right in from of them, to make a niche to stash my camera.

-- Cheers, James Arthur

You trust a camera to a checked bag??

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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This is s.e.d. I'm surprised that nobody has proposed an RFID solution. Put a chip in each bag and build a handheld receiver programmed to report the proximity of only your tags. Output a signal strength that can be used to annunciate the approach of one of your bags.

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The main purpose of unique bag markers is keeping somebody else from walking off with your bag thinking it's his. It needs to be large and obvious.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Satire follows..

I only have hammers in my toolbox. So I try to fix everything with hammers. If suitcase not noticeable at the airport then hammer on some shiny studs. :P

I cut my finger and tried to fix it with my oscilloscope. :(

I suggest a pocket-sized cylindrical aluminum case with an LED digital display indicating the distance to the suitcase.