Question: Has anyone ever seen a build with the sleeving be pure heatshrink? From connector to connector?

[Vitalius]

Hi guys,

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I ask this because I am curious as I think it would look pretty cool. Although, I figure a possible reason people would not want to do it is so that when the wires bend, the heatshrink doesn't tear or crease, or wtv. 

Just curious.

Thanks,
Vitalius

[HeathCliff]

Believe me, do not do that. The gaps between the shrinks look horrible. I don't have the pics on me, but trust me, don't. Also, it's a nightmare to get it to bend to that perfect curve you need.

 

Edit: My bad, I did a dumb. I was referring to pre-cut heatshrink that I had laying around. But anyway, now that I read it again, I'm not sure. It might actually work.

[RatedBlam]

I have never seen a computer with this, but I did shield the wires going to the rear light of my ride with it. It was kinda problematic getting the flimsy wires trough the heatshrink but it looked good though

[Volbet]

The only problem I can see, is if the heatshrink would warp over time, due to the heat in the case and the long run of the heatshrink. And heatshrink is not that great at bending and being flexible as the wires probably need to be. But it could look pretty awesome if you could get UV reactive heatshrink. 

[Vitalius]

Believe me, do not do that. The gaps between the shrinks look horrible. I don't have the pics on me, but trust me, don't.

 

Edit: Also, it's a nightmare to get it to bend to that perfect curve you need.

Gaps? What are you talking about? I would just get heatshrink that I would cut myself, but not cut it and use that. No gaps.

The only problem I can see, is if the heatshrink would warp over time, due to the heat in the case and the long run of the heatshrink. And heatshrink is not that great at bending and being flexible as the wires probably need to be. But it could look pretty awesome if you could get UV reactive heatshrink.

Yeah, that is what I figured.

What if I soaked the heatshrink in UV paint? ... That'd be interesting. It would probably fail horribly somehow when I heated up the heatshrink. Paint burning/cracking and such.

Still, cool idea.

[RatedBlam]

Gaps? What are you talking about? I would just get heatshrink that I would cut myself, but not cut it and use that. No gaps.

Yep, there should be long enough strips of shrink that you can just cut when needed

[M-ursu]

That would look so awesome, if you do that i want to see many pictures.

[wtfxmitchell]

Believe me, do not do that. The gaps between the shrinks look horrible. I don't have the pics on me, but trust me, don't. Also, it's a nightmare to get it to bend to that perfect curve you need.

 

Edit: My bad, I did a dumb. I was referring to pre-cut heatshrink that I had laying around. But anyway, now that I read it again, I'm not sure. It might actually work.

trust him, he's an engineer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp8hvyjZWHs

[Ookami]

Covering wire isolation with more isolation is useless. Not to mention a lot of work to shrink the heatshrink right without any bumps on the way and if you want to shrink only edges the cables will get fat and almost impossible to hide behind motherboard tray. Plus they are rubber and will attract heat and keep it inside the case.

 

[Vitalius]

Covering wire isolation with more isolation is useless. Not to mention a lot of work to shrink the heatshrink right without any bumps on the way and if you want to shrink only edges the cables will get fat and almost impossible to hide behind motherboard tray. Plus they are rubber and will attract heat and keep it inside the case.

 

That looks really cool.

And no, I meant to just use heatshrink as sleeving with no cloth/threaded sleeving at all. 

[Ookami]

That looks really cool.

And no, I meant to just use heatshrink as sleeving with no cloth/threaded sleeving at all. 

And i answered it in that post.

[Josh]

I wouldn't recommend it, you'd end up with very stiff wires which would make any cable management extremely difficult. Can't imagine it'd look great either, but thats just me.

[gylmir]

i have some cable and it worked out very well just be sure enough that the shrink ratio is good and that all the cables fit its not easy to get the last cable in it when its to tight.