1 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:13,920 one of the most timec consuming parts of a new build can be sleeving and it's 2 00:00:12,120 --> 00:00:19,119 particularly timec consuming if your cat's constantly getting in the way 3 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:21,560 because they love they love this stuff 4 00:00:19,119 --> 00:00:25,279 see very bothersome so let's have a look at some of the supplies needed some of 5 00:00:23,119 --> 00:00:30,880 the decisions that I had to make uh with respect to how I want to he get 6 00:00:28,039 --> 00:00:36,120 down to how I want to go about this uh right now there's sort of two main ways 7 00:00:33,559 --> 00:00:39,640 to sleeve cables there's this way which is you do your heat shrink you do your 8 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:44,719 zip tie at the end and then you have the wires exposed at the end and then the 9 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:48,920 other way that uh sort of the more Enthusiast guys are going about uh this 10 00:00:47,239 --> 00:00:54,399 is pretty in fashion these days is the individually sleeved wires uh which is 11 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:58,920 both a lot of work but uh both a lot of work and a lot of good looks so you just 12 00:00:57,239 --> 00:01:03,399 got to decide whether you want to do that you can buy these preone extensions 13 00:01:01,199 --> 00:01:09,880 but extensions have a have some ill effects such as uh you lose a little bit 14 00:01:06,119 --> 00:01:11,320 of uh efficiency in the connectors and 15 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:16,520 you lose a little bit of efficiency in the longer cables so and then also okay 16 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:21,600 like the last ill effect is that now your cable is longer so you have the 17 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:25,640 original cable which looks something like this here we go the original cable 18 00:01:24,439 --> 00:01:30,040 which looks something like this which is now even longer so you have to Bunch up 19 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:34,840 that extra somewhere so it becomes a little bit harder to hide so those are 20 00:01:32,159 --> 00:01:37,240 sort of the pros and cons of using these they look good though they're not a lot 21 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:43,200 of work and they're not very expensive compared to doing it yourself um I 22 00:01:40,159 --> 00:01:45,960 decided just because I'm lazy and I had 23 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:51,240 this particular sleeving lying around and the matching heat shrink tubing so 24 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:57,079 sleeving heat shrink tubing scissors tape marker razor blade something to 25 00:01:54,159 --> 00:02:01,360 Mark the lengths for your heat shrink um ATX so this is for 24 pins here I'm just 26 00:02:00,039 --> 00:02:06,640 going to see if I can get to focus so you guys can see what this tool looks 27 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:09,479 like 24 pins six pins and eight pins and 28 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:15,319 then this guy is for Mo X's female and male on the two respective sides and 29 00:02:12,239 --> 00:02:17,160 freaking cats here again go away okay um 30 00:02:15,319 --> 00:02:19,599 so the route I decided to go is actually slightly different I have some 31 00:02:18,319 --> 00:02:24,080 challenges that I'm probably going to face here because one of them is that I 32 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:28,239 have more than 24 pins on the side of the power supply and 24 pins here so I 33 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:32,840 haven't stripped the sleeving off of it yet I don't know exactly what they're 34 00:02:30,319 --> 00:02:38,720 doing but you can see that some of these have uh here like this one for example 35 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:40,400 have two pins going into one motherboard 36 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:45,080 pin so I'm going to have to figure out where exactly they're coming from because what I'm going to be doing 37 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:50,480 because I'm not quite willing to put the work in for individually sleeved but I 38 00:02:47,319 --> 00:02:52,280 don't I don't like having the uh exposed 39 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:59,159 bits at the end is I'm using a slightly thicker sleeving and I am doing two 40 00:02:55,640 --> 00:03:00,959 wires per cable sleeve so right now you 41 00:02:59,159 --> 00:03:07,200 can see I've got got my modular here we go my modular 6+ 2 42 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:11,799 where's the two H sorry I can hardly reach with my CH chest tripod on here so 43 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:18,000 I've got my modular 6 plus2 and I've done two 44 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:20,280 wires Focus please yep so two wires per 45 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:24,360 sleeve which means that even if I bend it like this you can't see much of the 46 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:28,439 actual wire at all even if the wire color is is yellow see I bend this all 47 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,879 that way so you can only see about that much of it but what I'll probably do 48 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:36,040 when I'm routing the cables out of the video card itself so I'll have it going 49 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:41,560 in like this so I'll have a nice loose curve on it so that you can't really see 50 00:03:37,799 --> 00:03:43,920 it uh too much um so this guide will be 51 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:49,280 more of a lazy man's way of doing it if you want the OCD way to do this um and I 52 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:54,239 mean OCD in like the kindest most respectful possible sense because it 53 00:03:51,680 --> 00:04:00,959 really does get fantastic results you should check out this thread on hard 54 00:03:56,159 --> 00:04:04,159 form and there we go 159 now 55 00:04:00,959 --> 00:04:05,879 965 and this is by Ka master and he 56 00:04:04,159 --> 00:04:09,879 basically shows you guys how to do it sort of by the book and end up with the 57 00:04:08,319 --> 00:04:14,360 best possible results my way is going to be fairly straightforward compared to 58 00:04:11,959 --> 00:04:18,519 that so let's get started actually one more side note before we get started 59 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:23,759 sleeving of course isn't only useful for the cables on your power supply um in 60 00:04:21,239 --> 00:04:30,120 this case these are some custom fabricated things that I did uh so these 61 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:32,720 are just extension cables for one fan 62 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:38,000 power connector to dual fan power connectors and I did some sort of messy 63 00:04:34,639 --> 00:04:39,840 soldering and taping and isolating or 64 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:44,120 insulating rather isolating uh insulating here and then I can take the 65 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:47,560 whole thing zip tie it heat shrink it and then it sort of hides it and makes 66 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:51,880 it not look quite as ugly so that's one thing you can use it for uh other cables 67 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:55,960 as well so I'm haven't decided how I'm going to go about this but what I'm 68 00:04:53,039 --> 00:05:00,600 probably going to do is uh butcher these four adapters so I have four of these 69 00:04:58,639 --> 00:05:03,800 Molex to dual SA with black cable adapters I'm going to hack them apart 70 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:09,080 and then I'm going to use these to wire up my drives on the back of the 71 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:13,919 motherboard tray when I'm done here uh just because I'm having a heck of a Time 72 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:19,039 tracking down the uh any kind of part number that I can use to fabricate these 73 00:05:15,919 --> 00:05:21,080 myself so I'm just going to play the pck 74 00:05:19,039 --> 00:05:24,840 It Up game uh so yeah so we're going to do the eight pin connector so this is 75 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:30,400 the motherboard connector CPU and uh go step by step here on that 76 00:05:28,840 --> 00:05:34,680 one step one is to remove the existing 77 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:41,280 sleeving you can use either a razor blade or scissors for this depending on 78 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:43,479 how um how tightly how tightly packed 79 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:46,759 the wires are in there so you want to be careful if you're using a razor blade 80 00:05:44,919 --> 00:05:50,720 not to accidentally cut any of the wires because remaking these cables is a heck 81 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:54,400 of a lot more work than sleeving them which is already more work than most 82 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:57,160 people are willing to put into their PCS so you just want to double check make 83 00:05:55,759 --> 00:06:00,919 sure you didn't cut anything it's good this is just glue uh residue left over 84 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:05,479 from the adhesive heat shrink that was used on this cable before so uh be 85 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:10,479 careful when you're cutting up the existing uh braided sleeving because if 86 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:13,919 you cut it uh if you cross cut it then what you'll do is you'll make a real 87 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:18,919 mess like if you cut across an area that you've already cut because little tiny 88 00:06:16,319 --> 00:06:24,199 bits of this plastic will get all over the place and make just just a a 89 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:28,280 horrifying mess and if you're the kind of person who cleans your own house as 90 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:31,919 opposed to has your mom doing it for you then that'll be an issue that'll be a 91 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:39,440 factor believe me I know the demographics of my YouTube channel I 92 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:47,120 know most of you are young although some of you aren't do you know that it's 96% male 93 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:49,280 who watch this channel go figure right 94 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:53,319 guys so I'm just I'll remove this other end off for this next part an optional 95 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:58,360 step would be numbering the pins before you start taking them out but uh in a 96 00:06:55,879 --> 00:07:02,759 lot of cases it doesn't even really matter because as long as you follow a 97 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:08,360 schematic for whatever connector you happen to be putting back together um 98 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:12,720 then yeah it doesn't really make a difference as long as the voltages are 99 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:17,800 right so here we go actually although although bearing that in mind on the 24 100 00:07:15,879 --> 00:07:23,400 pin I'm probably going to go ahead and number them especially for the ones 101 00:07:20,479 --> 00:07:28,039 where there are two wires going into one connector so for some reason XFX or most 102 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:32,319 C Sonic rather has seen fit to do it that way uh so I'm going to to go ahead 103 00:07:30,039 --> 00:07:37,039 and stick with their way just for peace of mind so there you go and then the 104 00:07:34,599 --> 00:07:41,400 next thing we do here is we use this tool use this tool and not any other 105 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:45,759 tool don't use the one that looks like this it's round but uh has like two 106 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:48,800 prongs on the end because you're probably pretty much wasting your time 107 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:54,120 although I'm not going to do a separate guide I will show you guys how the Molex removal tool or like the peripheral 108 00:07:52,039 --> 00:07:57,759 removal tool works you put this in here there's different sides for female and 109 00:07:55,680 --> 00:08:00,159 male and then what you're doing is I'm going to see if I can get the camera 110 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:05,240 Focus yep there you go so you are compressing these two pins on either 111 00:08:02,199 --> 00:08:07,840 side and don't eat the sleeving 112 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:13,599 cat you're compressing these two pins on either side so that what happens is once 113 00:08:10,759 --> 00:08:17,560 you cover them you can pull them out of the housing right here so you just go 114 00:08:15,039 --> 00:08:21,400 like that and then you pull out the wire I can't really do it cuz the sleeving is 115 00:08:18,919 --> 00:08:25,319 in the way but you guys catch my drift so this one works much the same way 116 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:28,800 except that these are much more finicky um problematic connectors so you got to 117 00:08:27,159 --> 00:08:34,479 make sure that when you're looking at the safety lat these are sort of side to 118 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:40,240 side the pins go in the sides this way not like sides this way cuz that's where 119 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:41,640 the little the little pins are and then 120 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:46,039 just got to get it just 121 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:52,720 right there we go make sure you're down the outside okay and then what I do is I 122 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:57,560 usually use my palm to apply some pressure to the to this in here making 123 00:08:55,399 --> 00:09:02,320 sure not to apply any sideways pressure because these pins can break off so I'm 124 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:07,959 applying pressure here then I take the cable the wire I apply pressure in 125 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:09,399 towards the uh the removal tool then I 126 00:09:07,959 --> 00:09:16,360 give it a little bit of a wiggle to loosen the pins make sure that they're both caught and then 127 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:18,480 pull out so there you go tools extracted 128 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:22,480 and you guys can see here now uh the little tiny pins that is very important 129 00:09:21,279 --> 00:09:27,720 hold on just see if I can get that twisted for you so you can see the little tiny pins on either side that 130 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:31,839 it's important not to ruin and you never want to force it when you're doing this 131 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:37,680 guys because if you force it what can happen is you can accidentally bend the 132 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:43,880 pins completely or the little little Clips the little hooks completely 133 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:46,800 backwards and if you do that then uh you 134 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:52,079 basically have to cut this off um buy some of these pins crimp it on Fab 135 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:56,600 fabricate fabricate a completely new connector so I try not to do that it's a 136 00:09:54,760 --> 00:10:02,920 real it's a real bear to deal with so there you go it takes about that long once you have some practice and and then 137 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:06,640 the next step for the next step I take whatever cables I'm going to be running 138 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:10,839 through the sleeving so I've now removed all of the ends here and then I just put 139 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:13,880 a little bit of tape on them like painters green tape is what I'm using 140 00:10:12,519 --> 00:10:19,320 right now just cuz it comes off really easily so this just keeps it from 141 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:23,800 Catching when I run it through the sleeving that I'm going to be running it 142 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:26,800 through so if you have a whole group of wires that you're doing then you'll 143 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:29,640 obviously run those through if you're doing individual wires then you'll 144 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:34,079 obviously be doing these on one at a time but I'm doing two wires at a time 145 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:37,760 so you just kind of go like this until you get to the other end where I haven't 146 00:10:35,839 --> 00:10:42,360 removed the connector because I don't really need to personally I find it kind 147 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:46,720 of tricky to measure these out before I put them on so I just go to the end cut 148 00:10:44,639 --> 00:10:51,839 them uh you'll need oh that was one of the things I didn't mention before 149 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:57,480 you'll need a lighter or I use a little torch uh 150 00:10:54,959 --> 00:11:02,480 to just keep the ends from fraying so you just give it a little little bit of 151 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:06,320 heat not a ton you don't want them to start melting too bad but just enough to 152 00:11:04,079 --> 00:11:12,240 keep them from completely coming apart so now I have put the sing on and sizing 153 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:16,959 it is a little bit tricky so for the heat shrink what you want to do is you 154 00:11:14,959 --> 00:11:23,279 take your your mark whatever it happens to be in my case it's a q connector and 155 00:11:19,680 --> 00:11:25,320 then you line it up make a little Mark 156 00:11:23,279 --> 00:11:28,800 use a pair of sharp scissors to cut right on the 157 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:33,320 mark there are ways to do this more accurately than what I'm doing but like 158 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:37,160 I said mine is the quick and dirty guide 159 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:38,480 and then you put that on there making 160 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:45,399 sure that you don't accidentally Bend back any of the strands while you're doing this cuz you'll un unbraid it and 161 00:11:42,560 --> 00:11:50,079 make a mess so go ahead put that down to the end now lots of different ways to 162 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:53,920 terminate these um so what I used to usually do is I'd use a bigger heat 163 00:11:51,680 --> 00:11:57,079 shrink and I'd put a zip tie under it to make sure that it wouldn't move uh but 164 00:11:55,920 --> 00:12:02,920 that was usually when I was trying to fit the the sleeving really really tight 165 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:04,959 and have it be as compressed as possible 166 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:08,720 because the more here so the more tight it is the more opaque it is and the more 167 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:13,240 loose it is the more you can see through it you guys can see my finger so I was usually trying to go for that whereas 168 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:18,440 I'm using a higher quality braided sleeving this time so what I'm going to be doing is going for a more loose fit 169 00:12:16,279 --> 00:12:23,320 so you guys can see my uh connector that I'm already finished so this guy right 170 00:12:21,079 --> 00:12:27,279 here and at the power supply ends I'm not really as worried about how tidy it 171 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:31,160 is so I'm leaving a little bit of extra uh extra braided sleeving outside of the 172 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:37,279 heat shrink and what that means is that even if the heat shrink accidentally moves a little bit uh it won't actually 173 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:44,040 come out completely which is very very pretty much impossible to fix whereas on 174 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:48,920 the other end I've gone for the pretty 175 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:50,560 tidy approach okay so where was I here 176 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:55,519 right so you want to get it kind of almost to the end there and 177 00:12:53,560 --> 00:12:59,000 then yeah I guess you can pretty much heat shink it now so I use a torch for 178 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:02,279 this it's better to use a a heat gun with like a fairly low setting but you 179 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:08,680 just kind of give it a little bit of heat try not to melt the connector or 180 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:13,440 especially try not to melt the uh the braided sleeving because that's really 181 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:16,800 really bad then you basically just wasted that piece because it'll be too 182 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:20,199 short for anything else so once that's done you go ahead make sure the 183 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:26,279 orientation of the wires within the sleeving stays correct okay and then you 184 00:13:23,560 --> 00:13:30,079 come back to the other end here and what I usually do is sort of approximately 185 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:34,440 Mark I can feel where the pin ends and it's going to be a little bit under 186 00:13:31,519 --> 00:13:40,920 there and then I just kind of burn through it get 187 00:13:37,079 --> 00:13:44,079 the get the pins out take off my masking 188 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:46,199 tape just kind of cut that off there 189 00:13:44,079 --> 00:13:50,320 like I said this totally the lazy way I'm not doing it by the book but I 190 00:13:48,959 --> 00:13:53,360 showed you guys how to do it by the book as well basically follow that guide by 191 00:13:51,959 --> 00:13:59,720 someone more skilled and more patient than me and uh then what I do is I let 192 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:00,560 the I loosen up the the sleeving a 193 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:04,839 little bit just because I'm not going for like 194 00:14:02,959 --> 00:14:09,880 a super tight fit I just don't want it to move and then that gives me some idea 195 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:15,079 of where I stand so now I can see that I have to cut away just a tiny bit more 196 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:18,839 make sure these two wires are are the same here oh oh okay that's interesting 197 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:23,560 actually I might not need to cut away much more at all don't want it to be too tight yeah 198 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:28,399 just a little bit more so what I'll do is I'll quickly burn it and then while 199 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:35,360 it's still hot just so that I don't end up with like Globs at the end burn it 200 00:14:32,519 --> 00:14:38,800 mush it just to get rid of a little bit more I don't like cutting it with the 201 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:44,880 scissors at this point because if you cut a little bit too much then what'll 202 00:14:41,399 --> 00:14:47,639 happen is you will be 203 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:52,079 stuck sorry let me just cut that bit off you'll be stuck because uh you'll then 204 00:14:49,839 --> 00:14:55,759 have to burn it a little bit and then once you burn it a little bit after 205 00:14:53,519 --> 00:15:02,680 you've cut it a bit too much then you can end up with like you know a big um 206 00:14:59,959 --> 00:15:07,680 mess of like globby bits at the end which you then have to cut off and then 207 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:11,120 all of a sudden you've gone too far and 208 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:13,800 that's problematic so I'm just kind of 209 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:20,040 trimming this back keeping on doing this being sure not to you know burn away the 210 00:15:16,639 --> 00:15:23,720 uh this uh the jacket on the 211 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:27,360 wires mush mush mush okay yeah should be 212 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:29,160 good okay so now what we do is and this 213 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:34,279 is critical this is a very important step make sure you put on your other 214 00:15:32,519 --> 00:15:40,600 piece of heat shrink 215 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:44,319 wrap Mark and 216 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:46,880 cut okay so I put that 217 00:15:44,319 --> 00:15:52,199 on cuz if you forget to do this and you reattach the connector then you have to 218 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:55,160 take them off again and that sucks so 219 00:15:52,199 --> 00:15:55,160 once youve put on your heat 220 00:15:56,040 --> 00:16:02,639 shrink Chuck your cat out of the way 221 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:07,639 and then you find the connector which I seem to have misplaced you check either another 222 00:16:05,959 --> 00:16:12,160 connector you check a schematic online or you label them in the first place so 223 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:17,639 here I got my two CPU connectors so it looks like black ones go at the top 224 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:21,639 which ones are these so I'm doing these to correspond pretty much directly so 225 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:28,839 I'm going to take this and I'm going to turn it around and I'm going to go okay 226 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:28,839 well then these ones go 227 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:36,399 right about here making sure the orientation of the 228 00:16:34,759 --> 00:16:43,920 wires is correct before I try to put them in clip 229 00:16:39,519 --> 00:16:46,000 and clip and then I make sure my heat 230 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:51,360 shrink tubing completely covers the sleeving this time make sure it's not 231 00:16:48,319 --> 00:16:54,360 too loose or too tight Y and then I go 232 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:56,560 ahead and give it the old 233 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:59,319 heat really careful with the heat if you guys are using an open flame for this 234 00:16:57,959 --> 00:17:04,199 part because it's very easy to accidentally melt this and then it'll start to fray and then you made a real 235 00:17:02,079 --> 00:17:07,640 mess with everything so there you go I have now sleeved my two wires that is 236 00:17:06,120 --> 00:17:11,760 pretty much how to do cable sleeving I don't know if I'm missing anything in 237 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:15,400 particular so thank you for checking out my little guide and I'm sorry it was