very inspiring stuff going on here...I'm attempting to sleeve an 24-pin extension just for practice...since I'm not ready to commit just yet...right now, having an awful hardtime removing the wires off the male end of the extension.
My cheapy Sunbeamtech 2-prong is not doing its job and I can't pull the wires out

the bigger female end is no problem.

if I go that route, its hard to shrink the individual wires on the male end since the wires are so close together.