Cable Sleeving Guide

[switch8]

Plus you will not find better sleeving anywhere.

+1

Agreed 100% Amazing quality sleeve.

[downforce]

I'm in the hunt for some local PET sleeving suppliers. I can get Techflex from the Aussie distributor and their wholesale prices aren't too bad but the minimum of 20m means I need to move it.

I also found some from Cabac, this stuff here. Ordered a 4mm kit and I'll see how it goes!

[downforce]

Sorry for the double post, but wanted to give feedback on the Cabac stuff.

I sleeved a SATA cable with the 6mm stuff it and it turned out OK. I didn't have my camera on me, but I'd say the braiding was as tight as a Corsair PSU sleeve, about 60-70% opaque. It was my first sleeving and figured a couple of tricks already:

I started by cutting it with a hobby knife, but it frayed reallllly badly, like 2-3inches worth once I fed it over the cable. So I used a hot knife to cut the other end and this was friggen great!! It seared a few strands together but not the whole sleeves so I just needed to break it apart a bit to get it over the plug, but most of it stayed joined. Once I had it over the cable it hardly frayed at all!!

The 2nd issue I encountered I was using 2:1 heatshrink, which is crap for SATA cables, as it's nice a tight over the plug, but fairly loose over the braiding, plus it was non-adhesive so I can't see it sticking there long. Easy fixed though, I'll get some 3:1 gluelined for SATA cables.

My last issue was getting the length correct! The length off the reel != the length on the cable, as it expands the length shortens. This sounds obvious but hasn't been mentioned and tripped me up on the first one.

Hopefully this weekend I can get time to re-sleeve my Lian Li V1000 case cables, remove the grey plastic and add this instead.

Sadly the price isn't very cheap and in the long run MM stuff would probably work out cheaper. Cost me just under $20 ea pack for 10m of 4mm and 8m of 6mm, plus the 6mm isn't snug over the SATA cable, there is probably a mm or so slack.

[Lu(ky]

Question I am building a HTPC and plan on using a Corsair HX620 with Murdermod sleeving. My question is if I cut the wires down in size making not as long does that effect the power of the unit or its duties? Also I am thinking it would be hell of allot easier to sleeve then the tool route. I would just have to re-solder the wires and slip the sleeving over it?

[BlueAqua]

Question I am building a HTPC and plan on using a Corsair HX620 with Murdermod sleeving. My question is if I cut the wires down in size making not as long does that effect the power of the unit or its duties? Also I am thinking it would be hell of allot easier to sleeve then the tool route. I would just have to re-solder the wires and slip the sleeving over it?

It wouldn't have any negative effect on the capabilities or reliability of the power supply. I've thought about doing this too and I may if I come into an issue with the length of cables.

Have fun and post some pics during the process.

[Dangals]

Also I am thinking it would be hell of allot easier to sleeve then the tool route. I would just have to re-solder the wires and slip the sleeving over it?

How would you get the sleeving length correct - or is there going to be a join in the middle of the sleeving? I am assuming you plan on using two smaller pieces of sleeving to cover each piece of wire and then soldering them back together.....I would recommend that you shorten the wires as necessary and then sleeve it by removing the pin to ensure that you have one piece of continuous sleeving.

[capreppy]

Anyone have a good guide for sleeving and splicing of cable? I got the sleeving down (based on reading this), but am curious about best practices for splicing 3 into 1 fan lead.

[lazy]

Nice thread, ive always wanted to try sleeving my fans and thanks to you, I can now properly sleeve em!

[P4rD0nM3]

I hate sleeving but I do it.

[Ender17]

anyone have pics of an ATX cable that's sleeved in 2x2 grouping? so 4 wires per sleeve and would look like 6 big cables when done
if that doesn't make sense, I'll post a diagram

[DragoonXX]

AFAIK most people do the single, or at most double

[Ender17]

AFAIK most people do the single, or at most double

yeah I've just always thought 4x would look badass, but never seen any pics

[DragoonXX]

I might give it a shot with a spare PSU I have laying around, see what it looks like...might only do a small section just for ease of doing it

[Ender17]

I might give it a shot with a spare PSU I have laying around, see what it looks like...might only do a small section just for ease of doing it

yeah if you wanted to just do like 4 wires and post a pic that would be great

[Warfarin88]

So let me give the details on this. I picked this up at sidewinder and it's amazing sleeving. I found out it's techflex cleancut which only comes in black and gray. Simply amazing sleeving.. I've tried the regular techflex and it's simply crap. The matrial is horrible, it's flat, and you can see through it. I'd rather have nothing.

This one is beautiful. I just picked up a 100ft of it. Sidewinders also sells it at a great price.
win win

+1 for Techflex clean cut. McMaster-Carr also sells it. Search their site for Sleeving then navigate to Expandable Mesh > Easy Cut. A 100 foot roll of 1/8 inch is $25 USD.

For the money though, really, the Murdermod kit is absolutely outstanding. That's probably the way I will go in the future.

[Maian]

I'll be building an i7 rig this summer, and I would get the MurderMod kit, but I want white sleeving...
Does THIS look like it's good quality? Its from McMaster-Carr, but it's not the Easy Cut because that is just in black; it's just the 'Standard' sleeving.

[Jsunn]

Any one use, "Techflex Chrome Cable Sleeving"
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...Path=44_32_207

[jpm804]

Make sure you get tech-flex cleancut. Regular techflex is horrible.

I just a picked up the cleancut from a local fry's...

I tried to get a comparison pic with the old techflex that fry's use to carry a couple of years back.

Also ordered some MDPC-x Sleeving to try that out also... I'll post that comparison also to show all three if i can.

Top: Standard Techflex
Bottom: Cleancut

[DragoonXX]

ok, Ender asked for a 4 wire grouping pic, took some time with an old PSU (its only 20 pin, thats why there's only 5 groups of 4 and not 6)
and before anyone goes OMG!!! those wires arnt in the right spots...no...I really DONT care about this PSU anymore (I dont even use it for a backup) so thats why I didnt put tons of care into doing the wiring of it, nor into doing a super super clean sleeve job, its mostly a proof of concept type
IIRC its 1/4in sleeve and 3/8th in heatshrink

[LogAn'sRun]

Any one use, "Techflex Chrome Cable Sleeving"
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...Path=44_32_207

check out some of these pics and you'll see that I used it several places.

My opinion, it's nice, but in the end I would have chosen something else as it was hard to work with, showed wiring underneath and doesn't have the flexibility that I would have liked.

Cleancut (until I try the MBPC) is all I buy now. It's been fantastic.

[LogAn'sRun]

It wouldn't have any negative effect on the capabilities or reliability of the power supply. I've thought about doing this too and I may if I come into an issue with the length of cables.

Have fun and post some pics during the process.

man, I totally changed all the lengths of my PSU cables by lengthening or shortening them depending on what was needed. Soldered and sleeved everything, MM style as well. It was a hell of a job, but then I got custom length cables for my chassis.


edit: sorry for lame double post

[Mpetrosino]

Has anyone Sleeved an Antec 1000W Psu. If so can you tell me how to get those big plastic things off the cable. The thing that keeps the wires close together. You can see a pic of them Here. I just bought a MM Psychopack so i hope it does all my cables in my case, fans and all.

[DragoonXX]

come precision exacto work? is it just plastic, or is it like a ferrite choke type thing that are on a lot of tagan PSUs?

[Mpetrosino]

Its pretty hard, the only thing i can think of is to take off all the wires from the connector and try to slide the thing off.

[Eddie3dfx]

Someone please explain to me what I'm doing wrong

I'm using this double sided tool from frozen cpu.

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/38..._Fan_Flop.html




So I'm doing exactly what they show on the murdermodz site to the atx in order to remove the pins. Unfortunately it's not working at all. I tried this on a psu, extension, and other cables. I used both the double and single side. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong