SATA II/III Cables - Colour

Mantrid-Drone

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I'm really not into case modding or pimping or whatever but I have been trying to track down lemon or similiar bright yellow coloured, flat SATA II/III cables, with black connectors and metal locking clip. Ideally I'd want them to match trhe 'Viper Yellow' of my Akasa case and CPU cooler fans.

The problem is that I can't find any SATA cables like this on Ebay, Amazon or any (UK) cable retailer. You can find rather insipid pale yellow and orange/yellow ones but nothing even like primary yellow.

The search is further hampered by sellers' listing photographs that haven't been correctly colour balanced. I've wasted time and money buying cables that looked perfect only to be disappointed on receipt. I found a US seller who appeared to have almost exactly what I wanted from the photos but when I emailed him he, very helpfully and truthfully, admitted the cables he is selling are more orange than yellow.

So does anyone here know where I can get the sort of yellow cables I want? They must be available to a UK buyer.
 

Mantrid-Drone

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I had a look at monoprice.com and it seems just the sort of place you'd find what I was looking for so thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately they actually don't appear to sell any SATA cables in yellow of any hue.

I'd prefer 'natively' yellow cables but I've been considering another solution if nobody can come up with a a source for the colour I want. That is to try some DIY cable braid sleeving. I've just discovered I can get braiding in what looks much more like the sort of yellow I want.

Has anyone here any experience or tips for braiding flat SATA cables?

Edit:-

Found some good online tutorials and bought some good quality lemon yellow braiding. Not quite the colour I wanted but far closer than any SATA cable's native yellow colouring I've found.

However even better I discovered that, far from being a problem as some tutorials suggested, I could very effectively modify the braiding colour to what I wanted by the selection of the original cable colour. The braiding is so fine that the human eye can't see the cable but the light reflected back/through the braiding takes on its hue.

By using the fairly easily found Gigabyte cyan (sky blue) SATA cables the lemon yellow braiding can be cooled down to be as good a match for my Akasa fans 'Viper' yellow as is likely possible.
 
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