Cable Sleeving Guide

[Shaw]

Nice sleeving dude, what colour blue is that? Looks mint with the black!

Thanks, it's "GRAND BLEU" from mdpc-x.

[kwscore]

[TomH999]

[fantomau]

Was wanting to know what these connectors are:

[jchow1]

nils tool! AWESOME! sry bad photography.. my camera phone -- this tool has done me wonders and made sleeving so much easier!

[Kenjiwing]

Anyone want to sleeve a PSU for me? I messaged multiple people and didnt get any responses.. will ship PSU to u and provide supplies if needed.. corsair hx850 black/red

[3dchipset]

Um... You'll have to pay good coin to get a member to sleeve. Sleeving a whole PSU will probably set you back around $150.00

[shawnoen]

Changing colors from blue/black or whatever from the other one I did for you?

[Kenjiwing]

Changing colors from blue/black or whatever from the other one I did for you?

Yeah.. had to get a new mobo and got a evga e760.. colors dont really go together anymore

[>D4L70N<]

[Sushi Warrior]

Here's a real question.... roughly how much sleeving would one need for "assorted" stuff? I have it calculated to ~20m for the 24, 8, and 6 pin cables but I don't know how much (roughly) it would take for all of the fan cables (would be sleeving an entire Sentry 2... roughly 3m?) and all the front panel connectors. Just a ballpark, I was thinking probably 30-40m total for the whole system.

[melle.k]

30-40 meters is more then enough

[Kenjiwing]

Here's a real question.... roughly how much sleeving would one need for "assorted" stuff? I have it calculated to ~20m for the 24, 8, and 6 pin cables but I don't know how much (roughly) it would take for all of the fan cables (would be sleeving an entire Sentry 2... roughly 3m?) and all the front panel connectors. Just a ballpark, I was thinking probably 30-40m total for the whole system.

You could always measure everything and add it up..

[Sushi Warrior]

Got 30m, getting 40m drove the cost of shipping up another $10 :P too cheap for that!

[NFC]

Hey, does any one know with certainty if the color coding on most high-end PSUs is accurate enough so that if I cut the 24 pin in half I could just match red with red, yellow with yellow etc and be fine?

Normally I label every wire but I'm pressed for time on this build...

*EDIT*
Meh. I'm just going to recrimp. Nil's tool is fast anyways. =D

[Szpara]

so whats your guys tip about the shrink sleeving, how do you guys cut it so its all nice and exact same lenght as you shrink it?

[Szpara]

Evening chaps.

Been having some trouble with sleeving my HX1000w. Managed to sleeve the 20+4 pin connector without any trouble using the staple method. But for the life of me I can't unpin 6 of the 8 pin power connector or any of the PCI-E cables. I got 2 of the 8 pin connectors out without any hassle and sleeved them. Tried using smaller staples, 2 bent together, larger staples, paper clips, 2 tiny tiny screwdrivers and even a monstrously small spudger. Tried a variety of different tools to try and force the staples furter down but no avail. I don't want to apply any more force to pull it out, afraid it would snap.

Any ideas ? I'm close to buying the Nils's Pin Removal tool on MDPC-X.com but that would take ~10 days to get here and my HAF-X is sitting here looking at me angrily.

All suggestions are welcome and thanks for this great thread!

i wish a have read your theat sooner, but any way:

sance im nearly all the time on tight bugget i tend to make my own tools and recyle all connectors cabes and bits of peases of any kind, and so you may ask where do i go with this?! well lets get to the point; i have taken a small screwdriver and grind it down with a bench grinder of corse. results are just "Ahh, Its just what I needed!".

[>D4L70N<]

Un saludo.

[LeandroJVarini]

My first sleevings!




need to buy sleevings murder! and tools!

[Xien16]

Was wanting to know what these connectors are:

http://img7.abload.de/img/cases229uf9.jpg

There are too many in that pic to know what you mean

[Johnny87au]

awesome sleeving dudes, u all put me to shame

[aberchonbie]

Was wanting to know what these connectors are:

I'm also curious about the connectors used in this pic.. particularly the square one in the middle and the longer one at the bottom right of the pic?

it REALLY cleaned up the wires on the back of the case.. My antec 1200 looks pretty ridiculous on the back and i have to exert pressure to close the side panel

[aberchonbie]

Also, I wanted to note to those that are trying to sleeve the 24-pin mobo connector on Antec PSU's, it's pretty difficult to get those out.. The technique is the get your pin removal tool onto the sidewalls of the pin.. You then have to push IN the wire before you push in the wire removal tool.. after you've pushed in the wire as far as possible, push in the pin removal tool ALL the way.. Now, you can proceed in pulling out the wire you were trying to remove..

This technique helped most of the time in getting those square connectors out (6+2 pin pci-e, 20+4 pin mobo, 4+4 cpu).. Only experience truly teaches you how to do things.. be sure to give it a shot! Good luck!

[M_T_M]

What I need for sleeving 24pin, 8pin adn 6pin?

[M_T_M]

What size (mm) I need to 6pin, 8pin and 24pin?