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To sleeve that PSU cables you need patience... a lot of patience...

Your work in this project show you have a lot of patience

Congratulations!

 

Cheers extreme moder .

 

I haven't stepped away from the sleeving yet, been a fair learning curve but found I was doing it wrong, I seem to have the MDPC crimping & heatshrink standard figured properly now after wasting quite a bit of cable & sleeving & crimps I'll add up exactly how much I wasted when I'm done.

Also I'm guessing the reason KidMod & djzic was saying this psu is hell to do is because of it having some wires having 2 going into 1 socket, anyway I thought it was best to approach it different & sleeve a spare extender I had but only for the cables that have this issue, I thought they were saying it's difficult because it's difficult to get the pins out & once I was able to take them out I thought this is easy .

Once I run out of crimp pins I'll either post a pic of how it went or go on straight to making the cable tidier pieces .

I can now appreciate why people say they don't like sleeving but to be honest once you know what you are doing it's not so bad & the only pain I've felt has been mental from wasting so much of this awesome sleeving .

 

See. Told you

Cable sleeving is an art where not every one has the ability to pull it off perfectly every time.

 

Got it close but not quite OCD type .

OK now I feel the pain on my finger tips but moreso blisters from clenching the pliers lol but thats mostly because of the DIY pin remover I'm using (a grinded flat piece of a paper clip & using pliers to drive it through) lmao , hopefully I never laughed at anyone when they mentioned it is painful because now it's time for them to say haa haaaa if I ever did , think I just did in my mind , anyway I'm glad to say I'm not creating any waste since last night & I have a trick up my sleeve for getting any of the heatshrinks that aren't the same, a razer to finish them off , but they are very close but I'll leave it to you lot to judge .





LOL I keep nodding off to sleep, I better jump on my bed .

 

Very very nice mate

A skill I'm yet to dabble in though with my TJ07 build looming on the horizon one I'll have to bite the bullet and learn methinks

 

Forget sleeving PSU wiring. I just bought mod/smart Kobra cable extenders from Performance-Pcs. I have no desire to sleeve PSU wiring just to know that if the PSU were to go bad, I'd be stuck.

 

There is different quality sleeving. You cannot compare any of these to the cheap crappy Chinese stuff they use. And they don't sleeve it properly, they use 3 times as much length as a perfectionist (AKA Waynio, me and anyone else that uses MDPC with Nils' guide for sleeving ). Really, you can't compare. Also, the crimping is even more awesome on a modular PSU because of custom length without soldering

Good work Waynio

 

I got to agree with djzic. Not having seen what mod/smart pre-sleeved cables look like, but I had the chance to work a bit with pre-modded cables by NZXT and I was not impressed. Sloppy stretching (=too much sleeving used, so it sits quite loose on the wire), waaay too much heatshrink, and, finally: They use single thread weaved sleeving, just like the old stuff from A.C.Ryan.
The stuff that Nils at MDPC sells is tripple weaved and much harder to see through - proper quality.

Now, having said that - did any of you guys try the pre-modded cables from Bitfenix? They look the part and somehow they don't use heatshrink, but are able to crimp the pins over the sleeving, thereby holding it in place without using heatshrink? (I'm guessing here, but judging from pictures, that's how they do it)

 

Nice cabling Waynio

 

Thanks mate just buy more than you need then by the time you have it figured you should have enough to do the job, I wasted quite a bit getting to grips with sleeving but having said wasted maybe I could still use some of the sleeving & cable for short cables so I'll just keep it aside for short cables, just like all my scrap alu it'll get used eventually

Yeah thats the reason I never used to sleeve psu's so when I found out about a 100% modular psu I figured I wouldn't be voiding the warranty since theres no need to open the actual psu so I jumped at the chance of getting one but corsair did the cables silly or at least the ATX cable when they should have imo made it a simple a to b cable rather than a & b to c cable awkward gits lol this psu is making my mod messy, a normal psu would have been far easier & cleaner to sleeve.

Also if I knew I was going to end up sleeving extension cables I would have done p0pes awesome method of many drill holes as a future proof sleeving job, really is a beautiful idea that .

I had a fair few points of thinking why am I doing this but now I have something to show for it so I'm happy especially with this cable being the one that takes the longest, not 24 crimps but 48 .

I'll have to mod the cable holes to make them bigger so the plug can go through, I don't think any of the other cables have 2 going into 1 socket so should be fine with 100% custom length cables but yeah the stock ATX cable will need to be hidden, kinda wanted a flawless build on this & thats the 1 thing letting it down.

Thanks djzic .

It was a NZXT extension which I sleeved not seen a Bitfenix but it sounds good & sounds a technique well worth mastering but flipping difficult eh . Also all the wire used underneath this sleeving is black so impossible to see a flaw other than the heatshrink lol .

Thanks Graham could be nicer still if I get all the heatshrink to the same length, I'm thinking a nice razer to get them all the same, not sure though might leave them as they are .

 

Really nice work matey,

Ive gotta agree, even when center punching that many holes, and using a pillar drill can be tricky getting holes spot on.

So to do it with a hand drill, im impressed.

 

Thanks Pablo the back panel took a full day to complete, think it was 6 am til 8 pm lol, the crazy thing is the ATX cable took longer but maybe thats because sleeving was a new thing to me .

 

It's not good at all. It damages the crimps (on a good crimper) as the whole thing is stretched too much. I'll PM you with more info if you want, because of the "secret"

 

Ah it's ok I'll take your word for it mate .

In other news I just got offered a free copy of WOW but not interested, I'd hate to lose my life to a game .

 

maybe they could sponsor you

 

I remember back in the days when I first tried sleeving lol the pain and anger from lack of patience, broken tools from excess force used, nice dayz!!!
My technique now is to completely cut the wires instead of removing them from the plugs and crimble them instead.
Nice work buddy more sleeving please!!!!!

 

Having been in electronics field manufacturing, cutting thousands of wires and crimping pins all day for months on end, i feel the pain...

oh well, keep going.

 

They would have to for me to waste my life in a never ending game south park done a great episode on it where they all got ultra unhealthy .

It takes a fair bit of time eh I never really understood how much effort goes into sleeving but now I do so whenever I see a ridiculasly awesome sleeving job I think wow nice one .
Would love to do all the rest right now but need to wait for crimp pins & some other bits but it's nice to have the 48 crimps done on the ATX extender , only got 8 female crimp pins left which is enough to do 1 end of the CPU power cable so the sleeving is on hold until I get the rest but until then I'll have a go at some other bits on the case .

Arrrgh thousands would drive me crazy .

 

You know, now I may start doing that....