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Cable Wrapping

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Hey everyone, I really want to try and clean up my cables, and try and make everything a nice UV blue color and stick some CCFL in my case. My problem is that I have no idea where to start when it comes to cable sleeving or wrapping. My biggest problem is going to be the power cables for my SATA drives. I have a Corsair modular PSU, and if you know, the power cables for those are pretty flat and stick, so how would I go about sleaving those?

Also, should I use sleeving or shrink wrap? I really have no idea where to start here, and would love some help. Anything you guys can offer me would be great. I've been searching around frozencpu.com, but there are so many options I don't really know what to choose. Thank you for any help.
 
just use electrical tape... sleek black design! :) haha

(please don't get mad at me for this post, hopefully it'll just made you laugh... :) )
 
Well, electrical tape is cheap and would work if you didn't move your cables very much. It doesn't hold up well in heat, though. The adhesive tends to decompose and eventually the tape starts peeling. But as a temporary solution it may work, heheh. ;)
 
Well I won't be using electrical tape because like I said I want to get UV blue and get some CCFLs to make my case look nice. I just don't really know what sizes to get, or if there are kits, or if wrap should be used for one things and heat shrink for another.
 
Thank you but I already know where to get cable accessories. If someone could be kind enough to read more than just the title of the thread and then reply, that would be great.
 
well if its any help, they make tools so that you can take the sata cable heads off which in turn makes it way easier to sleeve. Because the head is so big on the sata power connectors it is really a pain to sleeve, i highly suggest searching around and looking for a psu modding kit. i know ive seen tools to remove sata cable heads. problem is... i just dont remember where, but they are out there.

Just a sidenote as well, what works amazing is sleeving and shrink wrapping. that way the ends of the sleeving dont fray out on you nor slide around. it gives the psu wires the stock look but with the different color scheme it looks upbeat compared to the usual black on black combo of heatshrink and sleeving.
 
Use sleeving over the cables, heat shrink to keep it in place. There are plenty tutorials around that'll explain it better, but theres your answer. Your Corsair is probably already sleeved, so you'll have to get that sleeving off first and put the new stuff on, if you wanted the new sleeves rather than just new connectors.
 
Ah, see I thought that heatshrink and sleeving were seperate things, and you would use one for a certain kind of cable and the other for a different kind. This makes more sense now. The only thing that is sleeved on my corsair is the ATX connector, which is black and I might just keep it that way, depends on how big of a pain it is to get all the connectors out of it.
 
vage said:
Ah, see I thought that heatshrink and sleeving were seperate things, and you would use one for a certain kind of cable and the other for a different kind. This makes more sense now. The only thing that is sleeved on my corsair is the ATX connector, which is black and I might just keep it that way, depends on how big of a pain it is to get all the connectors out of it.
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The pain isn't getting them out, it's getting them back in and in the correct order. :p

Yeah, the heatshrink tubing is just to keep the sleeving from fraying at the ends like an old pair of shorts.
 
the molex connectors are not hard at all, its the board connectors and video card power connectors that are the pain >.<
 
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