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Re: Guess who's overthinking something again. - MikeF - 09-01-2013
TIme for a new car.
Re: Guess who's overthinking something again. - Speedy - 09-01-2013
MikeF wrote:
TIme for a new car.
This ^. LOL.
Re: Guess who's overthinking something again. - Buzz - 09-01-2013
hookers & booze, and use it for B&W proofing...
Re: Guess who's overthinking something again. - OWC Jamie - 09-01-2013
5 bucks or so at autozone
Re: Guess who's overthinking something again. - haikuman - 09-01-2013
You could also use a slice of wooden doweling.
Glue the doweling into the original home of the tether.
Attach/screw davesters Eye Screw into the doweling.
Next attach the fishing swivel to the eye and then attach
your new tether to the swivel.
wala *(:>*
Re: Guess who's overthinking something again. - Racer X - 09-01-2013
Nobody has asked him if it is Threaded, or a 1/4 turn Bayonet style. Mine is a 1/4 turn Bayonet, and anything attached to it would work fine. Maybe he isn't over thinking it because he doesn't need to.
Re: Guess who's overthinking something again. - SteveO - 09-02-2013
Use an old DIN 8 cable.
Re: Guess who's overthinking something again. - wurm - 09-02-2013
Lots of good input. Thanks.
I did think about the fact that not being on center will impact how well it turns without tangling. For that reason, I'm liking the small eye-hook in the center option. However, I'm not sure if that center is solid plastic or if there's some hidden venting system going on under the surface, so I'm a little hesitant to just start drilling down from the top.
I like the idea of the pull-chain as the material for the tether. I'm also thinking maybe some old phone cord or speaker wire, and yes, heavy monofilament weed hacker/fishing line would work.
My research (Subaru forums) has shown that that Universal tether thing won't work on this cap.
It's a threaded cap...turn 'til it clicks, but you can keep turning. (see pic)
I also thought of eliminating the tether altogether and using velcro on the top of the cap and inside the fuel door as a way of sticking it somewhere while fueling. Or maybe gluing a couple of very small neodymium magnets in the recesses on either side of the center of the top of the cap.
Re: Guess who's overthinking something again. - DP - 09-02-2013
Wow! 28 responses over a gas cap...
Re: Guess who's overthinking something again. - PeterB - 09-02-2013
Was I the only one who thought of this?:
http://static.bhphoto.com/images/images500x500/834774.jpg
Cheap and easily replaceable, should it become necessary to do so.