Cable Sleeving Guide

[RADCOM]

Has anyone attempted to sleeve their USB keyboard or mouse cords? Maybe even speakers wires?

Heck how about ALL the wires behind their desk?

Funnily enough when the proper wiremen installed a desk at our place they'd slip all the wires into one big sleeve and cable tie it; murders when we used to have to remove a component

[hchristian]

My favorite now is the two pin (ones with the round tops) method followed closely by the staple method.

I vote for that one too

Just because it doesn't hurt my hand when inserting it

With the staples I kinda get bruises around my thumb

[BlueAqua]

Staples work fine but if you haven't used the real Molex tool then you're missing out. The Molex pin remover effortlessly removes the pins, easier than all others.

[DragoonXX]

Funnily enough when the proper wiremen installed a desk at our place they'd slip all the wires into one big sleeve and cable tie it; murders when we used to have to remove a component

split loom? I've used that before, easy as pie to work with...if you have the proper tool

[triggs75]

Your guide on the first page does not have the Pictures anymore.

[shazza]

It seems the bandwidth gets exceeded for the pics later in the month ... maybe we can come up with a way to help Dangal's out with an alternate hosting site. His call.

[skinnee]

It seems the bandwidth gets exceeded for the pics later in the month ... maybe we can come up with a way to help Dangal's out with an alternate hosting site. His call.

In progress...

[BlueAqua]

It seems Photobucket has reduced the monthly bandwidth from 25G/month to 10G/month.

Go skinnee go!

[shazza]

In progress...

Good deal, skinnee. Should have known you guys would be on top of it! This is a very important thread.

[Dangals]

Yes Skinnee and I are currently working out the details - hopefully the pics will be back up in another day or so.

[dualbrain]

w00t Dangals and Skinnee

[Dangals]

PICS ARE NOW BACK UP

Big Props to Skinnee for hosting my pics on his site - thanks mate

[triggs75]

PICS ARE NOW BACK UP

Big Props to Skinnee for hosting my pics on his site - thanks mate

You guys don't mess around. Great job and Thanks!!

[karbonkid]

Look what turned up on my doorstep this morning









P.S. yes, I know my sensor needs a clean.

[dylskee]

Great guide and thanks for getting the pics back up, going to try my first sleeving job this weekend and this thread has been a tremendous help!

[karbonkid]

EDIT:
Here's something I've found works for me quite well - a pair of self-closing tweezers to keep the sleeve in place while you sort out the heatshrink:



The result:




Here's my first try on PSU sleeving. I first had to open up the PSU and remove the horrible, horrible sleeving that was already there (Etasis ET750). I really need to practice getting this heatshrink consistent. Probably gonna redo these:



I'm afraid that I may have gone a bit overboard with the heatgun on the first 2 wires - has anyone had any problems with voltages after sleeving? It's not like I melted the wires or anything (I hope), just kept the heatgun pointed at the pin for what I think might have been too long...

[fhantastic]

Hey guys,

i´m Ferhan from Germany and a friend of Nils

If you guys have any questions you can ask me but keep your english simple for me because my english skills are very bad

For my first Post i want to show you some pics:



















enjoy it

[ecidious]

I'm afraid that I may have gone a bit overboard with the heatgun on the first 2 wires - has anyone had any problems with voltages after sleeving? It's not like I melted the wires or anything (I hope), just kept the heatgun pointed at the pin for what I think might have been too long...

Looks like you melted the sleeving a bit.
Do you know what heatshrink you got? It should shrink very quickly and not cause problems like that, but it looks like either you dozed off for a while or the shrink you have has too high of a temp. requirement.

[k0rben]

Hey guys,
i´m Ferhan from Germany and a friend of Nils

Im sick of Nils' sleeves but i cant buy it
I yearn for a pack of white

[tamtam1]

fhantastic

N1 pictures with amazing sleeve skill

[Dangals]

*snip*

Great first post fhantastic and to XS

[fhantastic]

Im sick of Nils' sleeves but i cant buy it
I yearn for a pack of white

mdpc-x sleeve is still the best

NILS help him, he want it, and he must get it !!!!

fhantastic

N1 pictures with amazing sleeve skill

Thanks a lot

Great first post fhantastic and to XS

thanks, i will show you more stuff on Sunday

[Jupiler]

Nice sleeving job (as usual).

Good to have you here at XS, Ferhan.

[dualbrain]

w0000t - Ferhan is in the house!!!!!!!!! LOVE!

[karbonkid]

Looks like you melted the sleeving a bit.
Do you know what heatshrink you got? It should shrink very quickly and not cause problems like that, but it looks like either you dozed off for a while or the shrink you have has too high of a temp. requirement.

Nah, the heatshrink hasn't melted, I'm just being paranoid and wondering. It is really heavy-duty heatshrink, though - 4:1 ratio 6mm glue-lined. Works great for fans, etc. (see previous pictures) but I'm gonna have go and buy some non-glue-lined 3:1 4mm for the ATX and EPS connectors - this current stuff is so thick when shrunk that I had to trim it thinner just to get the pin back into the connector, and that's still with only heatshrinking up to the end of visible plastic on the cable!

@Ferhan - Beautiful. Just beautiful.