Cable Sleeving Guide

[Dangals]

Thanks gives me good idea how these pins work got a fair bit of custom sleeving coming up soon on my custom case

awesome idea with the staples m8, Im going to sleve all my cables when i get some funds and time thanks a million for the guide !

thanks for the kind words guys

@ dangals

I noticed you use a very small amount of heatshrink at the end of you sleeving, do you find (as I have in the past) that the sleeve easily pulls out of the heatshrink??? or is it a different situation when sleeving single wires compared to 2-4 at a time?

With 3:1 (or better) Shrink of the right size, this is not a problem. Get a diameter that just goes over your "victim". About adhesive-shrink there are different opinions by everyone. I prefer non-adhesive shrink.

Dangals: Nice job you are doing here for the english speaking community

@ sniipe_dogg - as mentioned by dualbrain it is all about getting the shrink in the right size - now for the ones that I did nearly everything with done with 1/8" sleeving and 1/8" heatshrink - so therefore it is a really snug fit when you heat it up. Also as DB mentioned you can get glue-lined heatshrink as well which helps minimise the chance of a "blow out".

@ Dualbrain - wow another legend popping in - I love the work you do with MDPC - hopefully one day I will have a machine worthy of joining

Just out of curiosity what is that thing that you showed??

Nice guide for the newones Dangals It's very handy when you never sleeved something in your modding career :P

Maybe I try to sleeve my sata powercables but I think that isn't so easy as it looks.

It is actually not that bad - just remember to take your time and you will be fine

Nice job, Dangals! Grats on the sticky!

The one line note on my "Project Plan" that used to read "Sleeve PSU cables - Red" has been moved to its' own page and is now many, many lines thanks to you.

I'm going to be linking a friend here ... he almost b0rked his PSU after narrowly avoiding a big sleeving error on his 24pin ATX connector. Looks like the OP knows what he's doing ... xD

thanks guys - makes this all worth while

Yea i would like to sleeve some Sata cables but i cant find the right Sleeving and Heatshrink to use.

Yeah, showing us how to sleeve SATA cables would be nice. I myself can't figure out how to fit the dang heatshrink and sleeving over the big connectors. I've seen it done though, just don't know hwo they do it. The sleeving possibilities are endless. Other sleeving curiosities I have include how to sleeve liquid cooling tubing, as I have also seen that done before, but again, have no idea.

In regards to the sleeving of sata (data) cables that will be covered in an upcomming section to this guide - just have to finish off some other things first and then it will be added

In regards to the sleeved tubing - the only person I have seen pull that one off is Charles_h but that is something I will probably never do as working out where a leak is coming from would be nearly impossible due to the tubing being completely covered.....plus I tend to use black tygon anyway - no need to cover that up.