Quick update on the White Water Wavemaster Got my hands on a Globalwin 520watt Super Silent (22dBA) Chrome PSU which looks rather nice and will fit in with the shiny D-Tek White Water and used a Techflex braiding kit to braid all the cables and replaced all the standard molex with UV Green Molex and to finish it off altogether I used a UV green ATX connector kit from Fleetwood along with the tool for extracting the ATX pins which makes life a lot easier! Heres a few pics and will be doing a complete Wavemaster update shortly Using the ATX tool makes easy work of extracting the pins pins out in seconds and swap the standard clear one for a nice UV green one making sure to push all the pins firmly back in same with the floppy connector and the finished article complete with shiny D-Tek WW
I wondered how long it would take for these to come out, a nice black with black sleaving and black molex, with that shinny PSU would look great. 'doc
Yeah, that ATX pin remover is wonderful. Paid (if i remember correctly) about 35 euro's for it at Farnell . Just for that ATX connector..
fleetwood sell black molex female connectors , they also sell the tools i have spoken with fleetwood they have black male molex on way as well. see the black molex here. female psu kit 90 degree black not sure where to get black sleeving or braiding though maybe fleetwood computers would get if you ask.
so THAT's how the molex plug tool looks like! I'm gonna make one of those! thanks for sharing the pics! BMW M3: www.elfa.se have black braided sleeving.... and grey... i guess the gray one is perfect for vinyl dying... I just ordered a bunch of black..
them tools arnt as easy to make as they look, i tried , there mega thing metal , thiner than a needle anyway and strong as hell thanks for info on sleeving may wel have to purchase it
i have the perfect material... Flight grade alumin(i)um... pretty wieers ype.. it's wery flexible, but still strong enought not to bend... i think i can make something that will be strong enough to dismantle ONE plug... if that wont work i still have my trusty needle... it will take 100x more time... but ohwell... i halso have to cut and resolder every "pin"... (i'm not going to take the easy way out and solder the middle of the cable... ugly!)
why cut each pin off? you can fit sleeving with out removing atx block, tools is just used to take at block off.
We are actually on the case of having some ATX tools laser cut and got the first back from the machine shop yesterday for testing and i got to say the results are looking quite promising....and more importantly THEY DO WORK /.......heres a pic of one before its riveted together.
If you sell 'em and the price is good, i'll be after one. @ fleetwood theyre asking you to cough up £20 plus just so you can remove some bloody annoying pins - then they want you to buy all the brading etc on top Dont mean to single out fleetwood here, just first one that occured to me. IMO £10 for a tool like this is whack! .: Fillip :.
no i cant.. the type i can get hols of is only 2:1 expandable (10-20mm dia.), så it's no way it will fit over the plug... this is the a little "coarser" type of braiding (wich looks better IMO)... i can barely put the plug (without wires!) sideways trough the braiding... besides, i'm going to cut the wire at the same time.. I don't want to have the joins hanging in the middle of the cable... that will look ugly (20 heatshrinked cablepieces WILL show trough the braiding..) I have done this on a PSU before, so i have tested pretty much with this type of braiding..
i just made a tool myself... it works GREAT! (alltrough it looks CRAP! LOL) how much did it cost me? wery small scrap pieces of metal and two pop rivets i'll post pics later if anyone is interested
ok.. : as i said.. it looks crap, but it works.. (why don't we have a ghetto smiley?) materials used: a piece of alumin(i)um, 2 pop rivets and a thin steel plate from a dismantled transformator edit: now i'm going to make a molex plug remover...
