Best Place to get Sleeving for cables

[Billy_Mays]

Where can I get a good website that will ship to Canada and has all the tools to do sleeving?

[Himommies]

Just buy Cablemod

[W-L]

3 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

Where can I get a good website that will ship to Canada and has all the tools to do sleeving?

If you are looking at doing it yourself, Icemodz and Mainframe customs are a good option. It will take quite a bit of time to get the sleeving right though with practice and everything nice and efficient to do the whole PSU. 

 

-Moved to Modding Section- 

[Oshino Shinobu]

I personally use Paracord for sleeving. I prefer it to the plastic type stuff you can get. Any 550 Paracord from an outdoor/camping type retailer will work. Some places specific for sleeving will sell paracord with the core removed, but you'll be paying more for a little less work. 

 

After that all you need is a pair of snips, an ATX pin removal tool (and any non-ATX pin removal tool you may need, such as SATA or Molex tools) and a lighter. You can use heatshrink as well to secure the sleeving, but I find doing it without heatshrink looks better, you just have to melt the end of the paracord to secure it to the pin. 

[stealth80]

do not under estimate how long this takes, especially if you don't have the correct crimping tool like me! It took me around 14 hours to do a full set of cable extensions, meaning 24 pin, 2x 8pin PCIE, 8 PIN ATX. 

 

You need a crimping tool that can fold both wings of an ATX pin at once, and you need longer than standard ATX pins. Melt (slightly) the cord prior to crimping as it helps prevent it from fraying. Then I found the best way is to crimp the cable + sleeve in the 1st wings and the wire only in 2nd set of wings closest to the pin. 

[Billy_Mays]

16 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

do not under estimate how long this takes, especially if you don't have the correct crimping tool like me! It took me around 14 hours to do a full set of cable extensions, meaning 24 pin, 2x 8pin PCIE, 8 PIN ATX. 

 

You need a crimping tool that can fold both wings of an ATX pin at once, and you need longer than standard ATX pins. Melt (slightly) the cord prior to crimping as it helps prevent it from fraying. Then I found the best way is to crimp the cable + sleeve in the 1st wings and the wire only in 2nd set of wings closest to the pin. 

I know I am going to have a lot of free time in the summer time because no school and me being lazy

[Billy_Mays]

22 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

I personally use Paracord for sleeving. I prefer it to the plastic type stuff you can get. Any 550 Paracord from an outdoor/camping type retailer will work. Some places specific for sleeving will sell paracord with the core removed, but you'll be paying more for a little less work. 

 

After that all you need is a pair of snips, an ATX pin removal tool (and any non-ATX pin removal tool you may need, such as SATA or Molex tools) and a lighter. You can use heatshrink as well to secure the sleeving, but I find doing it without heatshrink looks better, you just have to melt the end of the paracord to secure it to the pin. 

Ok I know how long and SATA and MOLEX doesn't matter to me because it's going to be hidden 

[Billy_Mays]

24 minutes ago, W-L said:

If you are looking at doing it yourself, Icemodz and Mainframe customs are a good option. It will take quite a bit of time to get the sleeving right though with practice and everything nice and efficient to do the whole PSU. 

 

-Moved to Modding Section- 

Ok

[Billy_Mays]

28 minutes ago, Himommies said:

Just buy Cablemod

I want a DIY sense feeling and the satisfaction that I did it my self

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

3 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

I want a DIY sense feeling and the satisfaction that I did it my self

you may want to look into getting into computer engineering so you can build your own circuit boards resistors transistors capacitor mosfets microchips etc for the PC. then some cpu silicon design so you can learn how to dope and make your own cpu and then learn how to make your own instructions then your own OS then your own programs for that OS then learn how lcds work mine all the metals for it build your as well then a diy mouse and a diy keyboard and you're set cause other wise it just doesn't have that diy feel

[KazerTheKeen]

37 minutes ago, Alaradia said:

you may want to look into getting into computer engineering so you can build your own circuit boards resistors transistors capacitor mosfets microchips etc for the PC. then some cpu silicon design so you can learn how to dope and make your own cpu and then learn how to make your own instructions then your own OS then your own programs for that OS then learn how lcds work mine all the metals for it build your as well then a diy mouse and a diy keyboard and you're set cause other wise it just doesn't have that diy feel

You should probably start with a toaster and work your way up to that one. Cause that's going to take more than a summer. 

 

But in all seriousness there's nothing quite as satisfying as being able to look at a thing and say I made it. That's why people get so attached to Ikea furniture. Even if it's just  a computer with premade parts and a ugly case you got from a basement bargin. But it's nice to have it look nice and when you mod that is your reward, full ownership over something looking nice. 

[CableMod]

1 hour ago, Billy_Mays said:

Where can I get a good website that will ship to Canada and has all the tools to do sleeving?

@Billy_Mays if it doesn't work out for you doing it on your own, you can always come check us out.
https://store.cablemod.com/

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

46 minutes ago, KazerTheKeen said:

You should probably start with a toaster and work your way up to that one. Cause that's going to take more than a summer. 

 

But in all seriousness there's nothing quite as satisfying as being able to look at a thing and say I made it. That's why people get so attached to Ikea furniture. Even if it's just  a computer with premade parts and a ugly case you got from a basement bargin. But it's nice to have it look nice and when you mod that is your reward, full ownership over something looking nice. 

My point is it isn't full ownership ikea did all the heavy lifting for you molding all the particle board into pieces that pop together with relative ease you didn't make the ikea furniture ikea did same with the pc

 

[Billy_Mays]

11 hours ago, CableMod said:

@Billy_Mays if it doesn't work out for you doing it on your own, you can always come check us out.
https://store.cablemod.com/

I'll check you guys out if it doesn't work

[TVwazhere]

Both Paul and Kyle have videos on this subject. After watching them I cant justify the time spent on doing it myself, maybe if I got good at it. (Not to discourage you, thats just my personal feelings)

 

Let us know what you come up with  

[MrJoosh]

14 hours ago, Billy_Mays said:

I want a DIY sense feeling and the satisfaction that I did it my self

 

I recently sleeved a 6 pin PCIe extension cable using paracord, and it's not exactly difficult, just time consuming and laborious... The 6 wires took me ~ 2 hours total, but I guess it'll get quicker with practice (if I can be bothered...)

 

On a slight side note, for pin removal, I used a bent staple for ATX pins, a section on an extendable aerial that I pulled off an old RC car transmitter for female molex pins, and an 11g blunt needle (from ejuice mixing) for male molex pins... I bet that the proper tooling would make it quicker, but all of these I had lying around to try 

 

Just my 2p

[Billy_Mays]

1 hour ago, TVwazhere said:

Both Paul and Kyle have videos on this subject. After watching them I cant justify the time spent on doing it myself, maybe if I got good at it. (Not to discourage you, thats just my personal feelings)

 

Let us know what you come up with  

I know what I'm getting into with sleeving

[TVwazhere]

Just now, Billy_Mays said:

I know what I'm getting into with sleeving

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[TVwazhere]

3 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

I know what I'm getting into with sleeving

I dont regret doing this and i'll do it every time i see your posts :^)

[Revan654]

On 5/7/2017 at 8:12 PM, Billy_Mays said:

Where can I get a good website that will ship to Canada and has all the tools to do sleeving?

 

Mod-One is the best place to order from. Plus there one few who carry MDPC-X sleeving (Best Sleeving you can buy).

Dazmode (They are located in Canada). Carries everything you need for Sleeving & They carry DarkSide as their choice of sleeving.

 

If you want gold plated terminals your going have to order from Moddiy or Singularity computers. You usually get gold plated cables on your high end PSU.

 

Your make sure you know how to solder, since the ATX cable will require soldering of three cables together. You could try to get a double crimp wire into one connector hole (It's difficult & most of the time it doesn't look that great). You also can't use Closed Cable combs.

 

Here is a Mini-Guide I put together real quick (Since I kept getting messages How I do my own Sleeving):

 

[Billy_Mays]

8 hours ago, Revan654 said:

 

Mod-One is the best place to order from. Plus there one few who carry MDPC-X sleeving (Best Sleeving you can buy).

Dazmode (They are located in Canada). Carries everything you need for Sleeving & They carry DarkSide as their choice of sleeving.

 

If you want gold plated terminals your going have to order from Moddiy or Singularity computers. You usually get gold plated cables on your high end PSU.

 

Your make sure you know how to solder, since the ATX cable will require soldering of three cables together. You could try to get a double crimp wire into one connector hole (It's difficult & most of the time it doesn't look that great). You also can't use Closed Cable combs.

 

Here is a Mini-Guide I put together real quick (Since I kept getting messages How I do my own Sleeving):

 

Funny how you mention soldering I'm learning how to today 

[Revan654]

7 hours ago, Billy_Mays said:

Funny how you mention soldering I'm learning how to today 

 

Make sure you using the right material (The Silver & Lead free for soldering material).

 

If you can't just get it Ice-Modz does sell pre-soldered wires for both ATX & GPU if needed for there 16 AWG wire.

 

It's also a good idea to do soldered type cables for Molex & Sata. Atlease that's how I do it & few companies do it too. Much easier then trying to sleeve & daisy chain the wiring.

[NoxiousOdor]

On 5/7/2017 at 5:17 PM, Oshino Shinobu said:

I personally use Paracord for sleeving. I prefer it to the plastic type stuff you can get. Any 550 Paracord from an outdoor/camping type retailer will work. Some places specific for sleeving will sell paracord with the core removed, but you'll be paying more for a little less work. 

 

After that all you need is a pair of snips, an ATX pin removal tool (and any non-ATX pin removal tool you may need, such as SATA or Molex tools) and a lighter. You can use heatshrink as well to secure the sleeving, but I find doing it without heatshrink looks better, you just have to melt the end of the paracord to secure it to the pin. 

That is really clever I like that

[Revan654]

 

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Here is a few photos of my soldering job & sleeving just in case you need a reference photo.