light head bungee loop

[LiteHedded]

how are you guys tying the bungee loop on the back of your lightheads? assuming you're not doing that new UTD/AG bungee trick...

I've gone through half a dozen bungee loops. they always slip off the little metal thing and slide up the light cord...

it's a salvo light but the metal bulkhead dealie on the back looks the same as the halcyon one so it should work the same...

 

[rjack321]

New or old Salvo?

With an old salvo you have to file a <slight> gap in the cord gland between the nuts to hold onto the cave line. The newer salvos actually have a molded groove at the back of the delrin. I stopped using loops of bungie and use old tank neck orings instead. EDPM ones last forever. You might have better luck doing this as its not going to shrink/stretch as much as bungie so the cave line tying it on will stay a consistent tension. (tie the line while wet for maximum tension, let dry and then put a drop of superglue on the knot)

 

[LiteHedded]

it's an old salvo. the ballast is pretty big and I think the weight of the whole thing is causing my problem.
there's a groove in the metal there but it's very slight. the next time this thing screws up I might try the cave line and o ring thing. maybe it wont look too bad if I use some black cave line

 

[ucfdiver]

it's an old salvo. the ballast is pretty big and I think the weight of the whole thing is causing my problem.
there's a groove in the metal there but it's very slight. the next time this thing screws up I might try the cave line and o ring thing. maybe it wont look too bad if I use some black cave line

Does yours have the groove cut in it where mine does Brian?

 

[Rainer]

I have an old-style Salvo (no groove). I just tie on (with cave line) a DIN o-ring onto the rear nut. It hasn't moved/broken in over two years. FWIW, I have a remote ballast light.

 

[Blackwood]

On mine (old long ballast Salvo, probably like LH's), tying the bungee directly never stays put.

I have the bungee loop tied onto the rear nut with cave line.

 

[rjack321]

it's an old salvo. the ballast is pretty big and I think the weight of the whole thing is causing my problem.
there's a groove in the metal there but it's very slight. the next time this thing screws up I might try the cave line and o ring thing. maybe it wont look too bad if I use some black cave line

Take a file to the "groove" in the middle of the cable gland. Between the 2 nuts. Don't file all the way through obviously but make it a little bigger and the line won't slip off so easy.

 

[LiteHedded]

Does yours have the groove cut in it where mine does Brian?

yea it's just like that. but the ballast is much longer. it doesn't have the delrin bit where your bungee is tied though

 

[limeyx]

On mine (old long ballast Salvo, probably like LH's), tying the bungee directly never stays put.

I have the bungee loop tied onto the rear nut with cave line.

Same here & works just fine.

 

[rongoodman]

I have an old Salvo with the remote ballast and a very thing groove between the two nuts, not the wider one milled into the Delrin. Cave line won't fit into it, but I have some heavy(50 lb) Dacron fishing line which will, securing a tank O-ring. If you'd like a few feet to try it out, PM me a mailing address.