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Wooot !

I love those holes! so neat! Got skillz?


Verry neat overall shot! would love to see more, overall shots


Keep on going waynio! ur doing u verry good job! and that for a 100% hand build.
Have some rep+1.

 

Seriously Wayne - I have G5 cases from Apple that have WORSE hole spacing that this. Most excellent.
+rep
john

 

Thank you Marcos .

Will do mate, tomorrow but they haven't been sleeved yet though .

Thought with a nice bit of sun today (or yesterday ) I'd get a few more pics, almost took it outside to get some nice raw sunny pics, anyway hopefully more progress tomorrow, thanks k.3nny .

Thanks John appreciated mate .

 

No problem. Take your time. I *HATE* doing sleeving.

 

Thanks man I Haven't even seen it yet! didn't think it went on sale till the 17th

 

I call fake! This can't be done by hand! IT'S JUST WAY TOO PERFECT!

Amazing work, Wayne!

 

Oh I'm hoping it's not as difficult & painful as nearly everyone sys it is .

I'm subscribed so get it early it's a great article .

Thanks perplekks45 .

 

'Fraid so, the AX850's pins are buggers to get out. Also, DO NOT RELY ON CORSAIR RMA! I received mine with a broken cable, so I asked for a replacement in January and still am waiting...

 

Agreed, like I sad before Wayne, buy extensions.

 

Awesome, so I've picked 1 of the most difficult psu's to sleeve as my first lol typical fun times ahead .
I won't let it scare me off though & this is 1 of the few types of modding which can be done through the night as it's nice & quiet .

Ahh I'm not giving up before I even try, might have an update on the sleeving in the morning hopefully .

 

Ying!

 

Watching, hope for your sake you don't hash it up and end up without a PSU for 2 months. I hate being stuck on a laptop

 

Yang

I kinda doubt I'll muck it up also I tested the PSU when I got it & all is well .

OK time for some MDPC sleeving .

Being new to a full on sleeving job, a quick google here a quick goolgle there & BAM.

How to remove an ATX plug
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=64632

Snipped the heatshrink, cable tie & sleeving off the corsair ax850 atx cable.


Then went & gathered pliers, wire stripper, the crimping tool I got from MDPC in all it's matt black glory & my ridiculasly huge disposable lighter my bro bought me for christmas & isn't even half way used since christmas lol .


Got a paper clip straightened out & tried using it but was too thick soooo, I took it to the garage, snipped it in half & grinded it so it was nice & thin.




Tested it & it does the job of removing pins awesome, instead of pressing it against the ground I held it tight in the pliers to push it the extra needed amount, first attempt & it came out perfectly, so so much for this psu being difficult hehe , still though I'll need to dig out an exacto blade so I can heat it up to cut the sleeving well.


Nils awesome trademark custom cartoon picture .


40 metres of black sleeving for single wires & I think 10 metres of sata sleeving too, 150 pre-cut heatshrink pieces, a nice length of heatshrink, a pile of pins, a load of cable clip pieces of all the available sizes, enough sata power pass through pieces & a few sata power end pieces, that is all I think .




I might only do the CPU cable & the ATX cable tonight but it's on .

 

I'm using the molex depinner from Nils, its 'legs' are too short so if I do something like you are
(truly ghetto btw ) for depinning I'll be ok. With you all the way on custom crimping! Word of advice for double cables: do a splice (or y split). It'll keep things neater .
Crimp on! (Insert crimping emoticon here) I'm going for all white so if I only sleeve the stock cable it doesn't quite look right so I crimp it with white wire, custom length ofc
-Alex

 

Yeah I've heared of people having minimal or no luck with the pin remover tools which is why I skipped buying 1 with the idea of making my own, but I did buy a molex pin removal tool (the 2 poles one) & just tested it out, incredibly easy .

Just hope I'll have enough new pins, really should have bought a load .

I wasn't expecting to see joined cables on this so yeah I'll join them together before they get to the plug to keep things neat .

 

Wow it does complicate things with the ones which have 2 wires, I've done 2 wires so far , took me a while to suss out the needed length of the sleeving & took a few practices at getting the crimp spot on, I think I'm up to speed on how to do this now though , also I found using my lighter far better to do the heat shrink, the heat gun was blowing the heatshrink all over the place .

Silly me I thought I'd have it done & dusted by now , it was quite a learning curve but it should be straight forward now, I was begining to think I should have gone with extensions so I'm glad I persevered.

It's a PITA how they are all female ATX pins too, I don't have enough to do the complete job but I might just about have enough to do the ATX cable.

 

This lot took me ages to sort out, the place I bought my molex cable & fan cable mixed them together & they were a nightmare to untangle.


My first 2 ok crimps.


My first 2 wires done, but I'll be taking these out to re do them, so I'll use the rest of the atx crimp pins to get my technique perfect, but I had to make a new order for a pile of female crimp pins & a tiny bit more sleeving & some nice black fan headers, so yeah the sleeving is back on hold for the time being, at least I'll be good & ready to go at it like I know what I'm doing when it gets here & yes I now realise the heat shrink should only be showing a little which is why I'll re do these to get it perfect .

 

Its a good start!

 

Had a feeling I needed to swing by here for a peek... SHA-WEET hole-a-rama! Looking good Waynio ... LOL @ the tangle monster

 

Thanks k.3nny by the time I was getting to grips with sleeving & custom legth cables I realised I aint got enough crimp pins .

Thanks LooseNeutral, wow it took ages to untangle it all .

While I wait for the package from Germany I'll make the cable hole tidier pieces & if I still have time I'll start on the acrylic curve piece & all the side windows, then once the sleeving is done it'll be time for appying the finishing touches .