Late 2007 early 2008. All the way from North America to the Middle
East, through security in three major airports etc.

Then Malta for 8 days and back to M.E. Through security again, in six
airports. No problems.

In some airports a belt buckle or metal eye-glasses would activate the
metal scanner and in others nothing seemed to do so. Some required one
to remove shoes, some did not.

Then before boarding a twenty minute hop between two airports within
the M.E. my pocket neon test screwdriver, with a blade all of two
inches long, was confiscated! "Not allowed"!

Any idea of where to acquire another one? Preferably cheap! Also do
some have a resistor in series with the little NE-2 type neon; but
others not?

P.S. Rather interesting is that on one leg of one flight we were
served a meal, complete with 'metal' knife and fork. This was a nice
airline, but wasn't in business class; just back in steerage.
Estimate blade of that knife was longer than my later confiscated
pocket screwdriver, which had been tucked into a row of pencils/pens
in my brief case for many years including three other international
trips, 2005 to 2008.

Certain lack of security consistency; eh?