Cable Sleeving Guide

[Polizei]

You can get the glue lined shrink at McMaster-Carr.

[dualbrain]

Glued is yuck, because it "flows" out of the open ends and you see it. Looks cheap. Also you can't use the most advanced fine-tune positioning techniques (to achieve results like Crysis shows) with glued shrink. And it doesn't give you the opportunity to replace shrinks without shortening the sleeve where it was glued onto. Therefore: Not recommended for the perfectionists out there.

[NFC]

Also you can't use the most advanced fine-tune positioning techniques (to achieve results like Crysis shows) with glued shrink.

I'd love to know what you mean by this, as anything that gets me better results belongs in my repertoire.

[dualbrain]

NFC
It means: You usually cut shrinks to the same length as a foundation for perfection. Then you shrink them "not fully", because you can then adjust the position "just before" you could not move it anymore. Once aligned perfectly to its neighbor, you fully shrink it With glue, you would not be able to work like this, because it would get sticky "in-between". I hope this explanation makes sense. Actually Janik (Xien16 on this page) showed and explained this technique for the first time (at least to me) - he's a champ as fhantastic and Crysisgamer are









Oh ... something beautiful which hasn't existed before








Color is absolutely accurate on a normally-calibrated monitor and represents what eyes see in reality Tough job for most cams^^

[MINIz guy]

That's beautiful. Working on getting an order in now!

Edit: Quick question. I am going to be sleeving a Corsair TX750. I measured each wire to be about 2 feet, and there are about 80 wires. Sleeving each one, I would need about 160 feet, so I would have to buy 60 meters (196 feet) to have some space messing up and to sleeve some fans, right?

How much heat shrink should I buy. Would 2 meters be enough or should I buy more?

[Martin S]

LogAn'sRun: I use white wire... tape works but it's a pain to get on. You won't want to put the white sleeve on black/colored wire - while the weave will completely close, it will appear "tinted."

Thanks PropherCR Get some! You won't regret it

MINIz guy: 60 meters sounds about right. For heatshrink, generally you'll want around 1 meter for every 10 meters of sleeve. You can never have enough

[MINIz guy]

Placed an order for 60 meters of small sleeving and 5 meters of SATA sleeving. Shipping was expensive though!

Edit: An hour after ordering, it has shipped! Nils is awesome.

[Xien16]

[NFC]

I NEED THAT COLOR. WHERE BUY!?!?!

[DarthBeavis]

I am about to get balls deep into sleeving properly . .. what size for sata data? diameter . . .

[kwscore]

[Xien16]

I NEED THAT COLOR. WHERE BUY!?!?!

MDPC-X (stupid question... )

I am about to get balls deep into sleeving properly . .. what size for sata data? diameter . . .

MDPC-X (stupid question... )

[Nikol@]

Crys1s_Gam3r- Do you have some pics of orange and black sleeve, I cant decide which to pick green-black or orange- black combination
Sorry for my bad english.

[guilleguillaume]

Crys1s_Gam3r I'm going to fall in love with your work! My future colour scheme was going to be Grey/Green on a Aluminium Grey case and you have confirmed how well it looks...amazing...I'm totally sure now to get Grey/Green with my DFI UT T3he8.

Xien16 that colour fits perfectly with your worklog in Pink! I'm going to think that you asked DualBrain to make it for you

Crys1s_Gam3r- Do you have some pics of orange and black sleeve, I cant decide which to pick green-black or orange- black combination
Sorry for my bad english.

I'm really sure that Fhantastic did orange/black and I'm going to search the photo on his Worklog on the Lian Li "Black Hole"

EDIT: I found it.
This is not mine, it's from Fhantastic

[DarthBeavis]

Xien16: I have my own source for the same sleeving and in hundreds of colors but I need to know the diameter for doing sata cables.

[Polizei]

When my girlfriend was looking over my shoulder last night, she saw me scroll past that purple sleeve. She then yelled out, "When my laptop dies, I want you to build me a desktop and sleeve it purple and white!"

She's a winner. She put up with me sleeving my Silverstone for 12+ hours, and she will do it again after I'm done with the mods.

[Xien16]

Go and build it for her - no matter if the notebook is still alive

[DarthBeavis]

When my girlfriend was looking over my shoulder last night, she saw me scroll past that purple sleeve. She then yelled out, "When my laptop dies, I want you to build me a desktop and sleeve it purple and white!"

She's a winner. She put up with me sleeving my Silverstone for 12+ hours, and she will do it again after I'm done with the mods.

Build her a Danger Den rig

[Polizei]

Go and build it for her - no matter if the notebook is still alive

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If my motherboard wasn't black and blue and if I hadn't already decided on white with blue accent for sleeving, I would have gone with that purple, white and black myself. It looks awesome!

Build her a Danger Den rig

I would but I can't afford it. I can barely afford the watercooling for my own rig. Maybe a sponsor?

[DarthBeavis]

If my motherboard wasn't black and blue and if I hadn't already decided on white with blue accent for sleeving, I would have gone with that purple, white and black myself. It looks awesome!



I would but I can't afford it. I can barely afford the watercooling for my own rig. Maybe a sponsor?

trade?

[kwscore]

[The Viking]

@kwscore - HOW did you do that? :O :O :O

I've allways wanted to sleeve the keyboard usb cable and mouse cable. HOW? :O
Your result looks quite stunning!

[NFC]

Yes yes, it was a stupid question, but I had JUST been there the night before you posted in a frantic search for high quality purple sleeving.

Anyways, I loaded up and bought the MDPC de-pinning tool. I'm skeptical about how it stacks up to this awesome one I have been using but after seeing the crimper comparison I thought I would give it a shot.

[H2O]

Yes yes, it was a stupid question, but I had JUST been there the night before you posted in a frantic search for high quality purple sleeving.

Anyways, I loaded up and bought the MDPC de-pinning tool. I'm skeptical about how it stacks up to this awesome one I have been using but after seeing the crimper comparison I thought I would give it a shot.

The MDPC tool is amazing. I'm sure Martin and Janik can attest to its quality as well.

[Polizei]

I'm sure it's amazing, but I got pretty good with using staples because I find it hard to justify 20euro for it...