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Sleeving advice

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I am sleeving my PSU with the Vantec kit and had a couple of questions...

1. The hair dryer method doesn't seem to work for me, so I used a fireplace starter instead. It seemed to work after a few seconds but does this hurt the wires? It gets pretty hot.

2. How do you get around the long cable with many molex connector problem? I had a line that was about 1.5 feet long with 4 molex connectors on it. The problem is I can't get the sleeving down between the last molex plug and the PSU. I have to bundle all segments together but the bundle becomes too big. Any advice?

Thanks!
 
1. only thing i'd worry about is not the wires, per se, but melting the insulting rubber between them so the wires possibly could contact one another. Generally, though, this will not happen if you are simply doing shrinkwrap sleeving. Try a heat gun instead of a lighter (cleaner and more effective).

2. remove the molex plastic connectors using a molex pin removal tool ($3). label or write down which wires go in what order in the plastic clip, wrap em with scotch tape, then sleeve the whole bundle. reapply the plastic clip.
 
So you're trying to bundle all the PSU wires together? I haven't got my sleeving kit on yet but I was under the impression you did all them seperately. I'm new to this stuff so I'm still learning. I don't know if you'll find this useful or not but this is the method I'm going to use (scroll down to the pics):
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=357472

-Jason
 
For the heatshrink tubing, I had the same problem with the hairdryer not working. Eventually I just used electrical tape on the ends. Looks exactly the same and can be removed as well!


As for the multiple molex connectors on one line, i suppose you can cut individual segments of sleeving that fit in between each connector.
 
Originally posted by: glorygunk
For the heatshrink tubing, I had the same problem with the hairdryer not working. Eventually I just used electrical tape on the ends. Looks exactly the same and can be removed as well!


As for the multiple molex connectors on one line, i suppose you can cut individual segments of sleeving that fit in between each connector.
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I removed each molex and then taped them down against the wires so they wouldn't snag the sleeving and then sleeved each section. It looks best IMO and yes electrical tape does look pretty much the smae unless the sleeving is under scrutiny....
 
Originally posted by: JasonSix78
So you're trying to bundle all the PSU wires together? I haven't got my sleeving kit on yet but I was under the impression you did all them seperately. I'm new to this stuff so I'm still learning. I don't know if you'll find this useful or not but this is the method I'm going to use (scroll down to the pics):
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=357472

-Jason
Click to expand...


A good way is not to bundle all of them together. But if you want to do it like that, a 'spine' or twisted piece of 1/2" plastic is wrapped in a cylindrically-spiraling fashion allowing you to wrap your wires without actually sleeving them. this holds all the main PSU wires together while maintaining many ways for the molex junctions to spread from. from this, you can sleeve the branching connectors. Spine is flexible according to whatever is in it, so bunching is no prob. <-- improved airflow

for modders who want looks as well as some airflow performance, you get a classic stretchy length of what can be compared to a chinese finger trap. a weaving of plastic or mesh. I think this is the kind of sleeving he has and why he's having problems with bunching.

technically, if you have a big enough mesh-type sleeving, you can do all of them together, and make it one big 'snake'... but it all depends on your needs. If you have 2 cd-rw drives next to each other, why not put both molex connectors in the same tubing if they go to the same place? better airflow, less cluttered. Only need to do them speratel when they go completely different ways (PCI-e 12v 4-pin connector vs. HDD sata conntector)...good .5 meters apart.

whatever your tastes are, i guess
 
aha! no kidding! same site i used on my first sleeving. but no, don't know about wires and that type of hardware, sorry. more of a macro-hardware/software guy
 
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