Welcome to ScubaBoard, the world's largest scuba diving community. Registration is not required to read the forums, but we encourage you to join. Joining has its benefits and enables you to participate in the discussions.
Benefits of registering include
I use a loop of thin bungee, tied through the fold of harness around the left chest D-ring (IOW, the loop passes through the same space created by the tri-glide as the D-ring does). You can position the bungee loop in several ways. Some prefer to keep that D-ring a bit higher on the chest strap, so that the bungee rests several inches up the corrugated hose from the inflator and you can quickly pull it out more to move it above your head, in order to purge. I want that D-ring lower, and I keep the bungee looped just over the lip of the oral inflator mouthpiece, and I can, in one motion, pull the inflator backwards and up, freeing it from the bungee. FWIW, I have dive buddies who do the same thing, and others who can't stand doing it that way. And, as an aside, I put several pieces of bicycle tire inner tube on the corrugated inflator hose, and the actual LPI hose runs through them down to the attachment point at the inflator itself.
Maybe you should swing by and teach JJ/Casey and the Halcyon crew a thing or two next time you're in town
