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The original question was "where do I get thin bungee". Then I told you 
where to get surgical tubing, others say shock cord and so on. Any of these 
may be fine for instruments. I tend to avoid boating and camping "bungee" 
since all I've seen have been the cheap kind with rubber filaments inside a 
woven shell. These deteriorate pretty fast when used in salt water, 
probably due to salt crystals forming within.

Real bungee is a solid string of rubber and surgical tubing obviously a 
tube made of rubber. Tubing is OK unless it's too flimsy. Conversely, the 
shock cord is excellent unless it's too substantial. We tend to go for the 
tubing since real bungee of the right size is hard to get here. It seems 
like Dive Rite, Halcyon, West Marine and US outdoors sport stores have the 
right stuff. Keywords are stretchy and strong, yet soft enough to be 
compressed where you tie it in. A fat bungee is hard to attach and secure.

regards,

Hans

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