I am intrigued by the exchange, and want to be sure I understand to what the OP is referring.
Just to clarify, my buddy and I are using the setup from Edd which uses a string and clip (from the valve) to the chest d ring, a bungee to the valve and a clip to the bottom rail.
I think, but am by no means certain, that I understand what stano did. A length of static line with a bolt snap attached, is looped around the tank valve, before the reg is attached. The bolt snap is then clipped to a chest/shoulder D-ring. The length of the static line remains fixed, so if you move your chest / shoulder D-ring up, you pull the tank 'up' - toward the diver's head when in a horizontal position. The bungee then loops around the tank valve and pulls it into the chest. In the water, the static line / bolt snap remain attached to the chest / shoulder D-ring. The bungee is wrapped around the tank valve, but nothing is attached to it.
cavemn:
The clip and line you are attaching to your chest Dring is called a choker. This is used only when getting entering and exiting the water. I use these for boat diving. You disconnect them once in the water and use only the bungee.
Not necessarily. You can disconnect the clips in the water if you want. But, you can also leave them attached, and they do influence the position ('height') of the tank valve. What we may have is a matter of semantics, in terms of what you refer to as a 'choker'. Just for clarity, I don't call these loops a 'choker'. Rather, a 'choker' is what is used to cinch the top bolt snap on the tank rigging close into the neck of the tank valve, so that when the bolt snap is attached, to the bungee, or to the ring on a ring bungee, it holds the tank valve in tight to the body. At least this is what DR refers to as chokers. They can be cinched down, by pulling the end of the strap tight, around the neck of the valve, hence the reference to 'choker'. The static line arrangement, that I think, but am not sure, the OP refers to, does not cinch down.
My point is not to agree or disagree with what someone may want to do with their own rig, rather to better understand what the OP means.