Sleeving?

[JigglyPufflez]

So basically, I have decided to try and sleeve my PSU cables, I have watched Lutroo's tutorial videos over and over and I believe that I am able to do it, with a bit of help of course (friends) But it seems to me that the process is pretty straight forward but is incredibly time consuming is this true? Only thing I am concerned about when sleeving is the actual part of removing the pin from the connector a bit nervous I might bend the pins or do it wrong or something a long those lines, is removing the pin really that hard?

[KrazyKap]

Even if you bend the pins (they can get crushed - esp. with a custom tool like I use) they're easy to shape correctly again

[Titanicium]

Pins are easy to bend, but also easy to bend back again so don´t you worry about that

[JigglyPufflez]

Pins are easy to bend, but also easy to bend back again so don´t you worry about that

hmm, doesn't sound so bad then, what is the hardest part of sleeving a cable then?

[Titanicium]

hmm, doesn't sound so bad then, what is the hardest part of sleeving a cable then?

 

Not being bored to shit It takes forever so have something eat and drink which you like and some music running so you won´t just lose it

[JigglyPufflez]

Not being bored to shit It takes forever so have something eat and drink which you like and some music running so you won´t just lose it

hmm, yeah to make it less time consuming my friends are watching some videos to learn how to do it fluently, so they can help me when I do. Would the cables I sleeve, be just SATA, PCIE 6 pins or 8's, 24 pin and that is all the visible ones?

[Titanicium]

hmm, yeah to make it less time consuming my friends are watching some videos to learn how to do it fluently, so they can help me when I do. Would the cables I sleeve, be just SATA, PCIE 6 pins or 8's, 24 pin and that is all the visible ones?

 

You got some good friends

 

As for the sleeving you just sleeve all the cables you want. If you want to just sleeve a few then you just sleeve a few and if you want to sleeve them all then you do so. I don´t know them all by heart, but it should´t be any more then that...

[nohuevos]

I'm also planning on sleeving my psu while I wait for the non reference 290 to come out. Can someone recommend a tool or will the paper clip method suffice?

[Rheinwasser]

Bending the pins is not really a Problem. The are pretty robust and i've never had one fail on me.

[`br4dz-]

The worst part of sleeving is the trial and error. It took me a couple of years to achieve a perfect look, but then again I had started back before sleeving was "popular". When you're new, it's all about measure measure measure measure measure and then cut, and usuallt you'll have to measure measure measure measure and then cut that same piece again to make it fit perfectly. It's easy to fix a piece of sleeving that's too long, you cannot fix a piece that's too short. You have to account for how much the sleeving is going to stretch when you pull it taught to the wire, and that's usually the most difficult part for new sleevers to master. It's easier to get over this hurdle when you just custom make your own cables to the same exact precise length, since normal manufacturered wires usually vary by a few mm to as much as a cm.