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Sleeving and Heatshrink tutorial?

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Hello all. Many of the boutique equipment shops (PerformancePCs, FrozenCPU) offer sleeved and heatshrink-wrapped cables on their fans, PSUs and more. I've a project I'm a little more interested in the aesthetics thereof, so I'd like to start doing the above for myself. What supplies would I need to make this as easy as possible? Can anyone suggest a tutorial on how to elegantly sleeve and heatshrink your case. I'm especially interested in the "individual wire sleeving" visible on say... this - http://www.million-dollar-pc.com/systems-2009/lian-li/p80/permafrost/permafrost.htm

Thanks!
 
For everything except the 24 pin, you only really need a pair of needle nose pliers and a molex removal tool.

You can easily slip the sleeving over p4 connectors, pcie connectors and fan connectors... For the molexes, you just remove the pins, slip on the sleeving, and replace the pins.

Here's a secret though - heatshrink can be stretched to fit over almost ANY connector! Put it around the end of your needle nose, and stretch it from the inside out. Most heatshrink will expand to 1.5x it's normal size (enough to get over any connector) when stretched with care. It'll shrink like normal.

Pretty sneaky way of avoiding those pin removal tools.
 
Thank you all. Is a hair dryer sufficient for heating heatshrink? One of the videos mentioned it in passing.
 
all you need to get beautiful sleeving - xtremesystems guide, murdermod psychopack (or sociopack), hairdryer (lighter works the best, just dont melt the shrink), paper clips/needles/pin removal tools, pliers (helped me in pulling out the pins), lots of patience and tolerance for hand pain.
 
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