WEBVTT 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 00:00:12.120 --> 00:00:19.119 particularly timec consuming if your cat's constantly getting in the way 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:21.560 because they love they love this stuff 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 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 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 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 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 00:00:41.760 --> 00:00:48.920 other way that uh sort of the more Enthusiast guys are going about uh this 00:00:47.239 --> 00:00:54.399 is pretty in fashion these days is the individually sleeved wires uh which is 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 00:00:57.239 --> 00:01:03.399 got to decide whether you want to do that you can buy these preone extensions 00:01:01.199 --> 00:01:09.880 but extensions have a have some ill effects such as uh you lose a little bit 00:01:06.119 --> 00:01:11.320 of uh efficiency in the connectors and 00:01:09.880 --> 00:01:16.520 you lose a little bit of efficiency in the longer cables so and then also okay 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:21.600 like the last ill effect is that now your cable is longer so you have the 00:01:19.360 --> 00:01:25.640 original cable which looks something like this here we go the original cable 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:30.040 which looks something like this which is now even longer so you have to Bunch up 00:01:27.720 --> 00:01:34.840 that extra somewhere so it becomes a little bit harder to hide so those are 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 00:01:35.880 --> 00:01:43.200 of work and they're not very expensive compared to doing it yourself um I 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:45.960 decided just because I'm lazy and I had 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:51.240 this particular sleeving lying around and the matching heat shrink tubing so 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:57.079 sleeving heat shrink tubing scissors tape marker razor blade something to 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 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 00:02:03.360 --> 00:02:09.479 like 24 pins six pins and eight pins and 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 00:02:12.239 --> 00:02:17.160 freaking cats here again go away okay um 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:19.599 so the route I decided to go is actually slightly different I have some 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:24.080 challenges that I'm probably going to face here because one of them is that I 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 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 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 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:40.400 have two pins going into one motherboard 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 00:02:43.440 --> 00:02:50.480 because I'm not quite willing to put the work in for individually sleeved but I 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:52.280 don't I don't like having the uh exposed 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 00:02:55.640 --> 00:03:00.959 wires per cable sleeve so right now you 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:07.200 can see I've got got my modular here we go my modular 6+ 2 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 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:18.000 I've got my modular 6 plus2 and I've done two 00:03:14.200 --> 00:03:20.280 wires Focus please yep so two wires per 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 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 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 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 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 00:03:37.799 --> 00:03:43.920 it uh too much um so this guide will be 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 00:03:47.040 --> 00:03:54.239 mean OCD in like the kindest most respectful possible sense because it 00:03:51.680 --> 00:04:00.959 really does get fantastic results you should check out this thread on hard 00:03:56.159 --> 00:04:04.159 form and there we go 159 now 00:04:00.959 --> 00:04:05.879 965 and this is by Ka master and he 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 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:14.360 best possible results my way is going to be fairly straightforward compared to 00:04:11.959 --> 00:04:18.519 that so let's get started actually one more side note before we get started 00:04:15.760 --> 00:04:23.759 sleeving of course isn't only useful for the cables on your power supply um in 00:04:21.239 --> 00:04:30.120 this case these are some custom fabricated things that I did uh so these 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:32.720 are just extension cables for one fan 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:38.000 power connector to dual fan power connectors and I did some sort of messy 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:39.840 soldering and taping and isolating or 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:44.120 insulating rather isolating uh insulating here and then I can take the 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 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 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 00:04:53.039 --> 00:05:00.600 probably going to do is uh butcher these four adapters so I have four of these 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:03.800 Molex to dual SA with black cable adapters I'm going to hack them apart 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 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 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:19.039 tracking down the uh any kind of part number that I can use to fabricate these 00:05:15.919 --> 00:05:21.080 myself so I'm just going to play the pck 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 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:30.400 the motherboard connector CPU and uh go step by step here on that 00:05:28.840 --> 00:05:34.680 one step one is to remove the existing 00:05:32.080 --> 00:05:41.280 sleeving you can use either a razor blade or scissors for this depending on 00:05:37.400 --> 00:05:43.479 how um how tightly how tightly packed 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 00:05:44.919 --> 00:05:50.720 not to accidentally cut any of the wires because remaking these cables is a heck 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:54.400 of a lot more work than sleeving them which is already more work than most 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:57.160 people are willing to put into their PCS so you just want to double check make 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 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:05.479 from the adhesive heat shrink that was used on this cable before so uh be 00:06:03.400 --> 00:06:10.479 careful when you're cutting up the existing uh braided sleeving because if 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 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:18.919 mess like if you cut across an area that you've already cut because little tiny 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:24.199 bits of this plastic will get all over the place and make just just a a 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:28.280 horrifying mess and if you're the kind of person who cleans your own house as 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 00:06:33.280 --> 00:06:39.440 factor believe me I know the demographics of my YouTube channel I 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 00:06:44.080 --> 00:06:49.280 who watch this channel go figure right 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 00:06:51.280 --> 00:06:58.360 step would be numbering the pins before you start taking them out but uh in a 00:06:55.879 --> 00:07:02.759 lot of cases it doesn't even really matter because as long as you follow a 00:07:00.440 --> 00:07:08.360 schematic for whatever connector you happen to be putting back together um 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:12.720 then yeah it doesn't really make a difference as long as the voltages are 00:07:09.960 --> 00:07:17.800 right so here we go actually although although bearing that in mind on the 24 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:23.400 pin I'm probably going to go ahead and number them especially for the ones 00:07:20.479 --> 00:07:28.039 where there are two wires going into one connector so for some reason XFX or most 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 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 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 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 00:07:44.400 --> 00:07:48.800 prongs on the end because you're probably pretty much wasting your time 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 00:07:52.039 --> 00:07:57.759 removal tool works you put this in here there's different sides for female and 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 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:05.240 Focus yep there you go so you are compressing these two pins on either 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:07.840 side and don't eat the sleeving 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:13.599 cat you're compressing these two pins on either side so that what happens is once 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 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 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 00:08:22.960 --> 00:08:28.800 except that these are much more finicky um problematic connectors so you got to 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 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 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:41.640 the little the little pins are and then 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:46.039 just got to get it just 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 00:08:51.040 --> 00:08:57.560 usually use my palm to apply some pressure to the to this in here making 00:08:55.399 --> 00:09:02.320 sure not to apply any sideways pressure because these pins can break off so I'm 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:07.959 applying pressure here then I take the cable the wire I apply pressure in 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:09.399 towards the uh the removal tool then I 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 00:09:12.880 --> 00:09:18.480 pull out so there you go tools extracted 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:22.480 and you guys can see here now uh the little tiny pins that is very important 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 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 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:37.680 guys because if you force it what can happen is you can accidentally bend the 00:09:35.640 --> 00:09:43.880 pins completely or the little little Clips the little hooks completely 00:09:40.800 --> 00:09:46.800 backwards and if you do that then uh you 00:09:43.880 --> 00:09:52.079 basically have to cut this off um buy some of these pins crimp it on Fab 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:56.600 fabricate fabricate a completely new connector so I try not to do that it's a 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 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 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 00:10:09.040 --> 00:10:13.880 a little bit of tape on them like painters green tape is what I'm using 00:10:12.519 --> 00:10:19.320 right now just cuz it comes off really easily so this just keeps it from 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:23.800 Catching when I run it through the sleeving that I'm going to be running it 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 00:10:25.040 --> 00:10:29.640 obviously run those through if you're doing individual wires then you'll 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 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 00:10:35.839 --> 00:10:42.360 removed the connector because I don't really need to personally I find it kind 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 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 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:57.480 you'll need a lighter or I use a little torch uh 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 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 00:11:04.079 --> 00:11:12.240 keep them from completely coming apart so now I have put the sing on and sizing 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 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 00:11:19.680 --> 00:11:25.320 then you line it up make a little Mark 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:28.800 use a pair of sharp scissors to cut right on the 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:33.320 mark there are ways to do this more accurately than what I'm doing but like 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:37.160 I said mine is the quick and dirty guide 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:38.480 and then you put that on there making 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 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 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 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 00:11:55.920 --> 00:12:02.920 that was usually when I was trying to fit the the sleeving really really tight 00:11:59.760 --> 00:12:04.959 and have it be as compressed as possible 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:12:34.800 --> 00:12:44.040 come out completely which is very very pretty much impossible to fix whereas on 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:48.920 the other end I've gone for the pretty 00:12:44.040 --> 00:12:50.560 tidy approach okay so where was I here 00:12:48.920 --> 00:12:55.519 right so you want to get it kind of almost to the end there and 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 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 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 00:13:05.760 --> 00:13:13.440 especially try not to melt the uh the braided sleeving because that's really 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:16.800 really bad then you basically just wasted that piece because it'll be too 00:13:14.800 --> 00:13:20.199 short for anything else so once that's done you go ahead make sure the 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:26.279 orientation of the wires within the sleeving stays correct okay and then you 00:13:23.560 --> 00:13:30.079 come back to the other end here and what I usually do is sort of approximately 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 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:40.920 there and then I just kind of burn through it get 00:13:37.079 --> 00:13:44.079 the get the pins out take off my masking 00:13:40.920 --> 00:13:46.199 tape just kind of cut that off there 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 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 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 00:13:56.720 --> 00:14:00.560 the I loosen up the the sleeving a 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:04.839 little bit just because I'm not going for like 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 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 00:14:12.560 --> 00:14:18.839 make sure these two wires are are the same here oh oh okay that's interesting 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 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 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 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 00:14:36.600 --> 00:14:44.880 scissors at this point because if you cut a little bit too much then what'll 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:47.639 happen is you will be 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 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 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 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 00:15:04.040 --> 00:15:11.120 all of a sudden you've gone too far and 00:15:07.680 --> 00:15:13.800 that's problematic so I'm just kind of 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:20.040 trimming this back keeping on doing this being sure not to you know burn away the 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:23.720 uh this uh the jacket on the 00:15:20.040 --> 00:15:27.360 wires mush mush mush okay yeah should be 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:29.160 good okay so now what we do is and this 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:34.279 is critical this is a very important step make sure you put on your other 00:15:32.519 --> 00:15:40.600 piece of heat shrink 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:44.319 wrap Mark and 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:46.880 cut okay so I put that 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 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:55.160 take them off again and that sucks so 00:15:52.199 --> 00:15:55.160 once youve put on your heat 00:15:56.040 --> 00:16:02.639 shrink Chuck your cat out of the way 00:16:00.800 --> 00:16:07.639 and then you find the connector which I seem to have misplaced you check either another 00:16:05.959 --> 00:16:12.160 connector you check a schematic online or you label them in the first place so 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 00:16:14.680 --> 00:16:21.639 which ones are these so I'm doing these to correspond pretty much directly so 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 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:28.839 well then these ones go 00:16:29.680 --> 00:16:36.399 right about here making sure the orientation of the 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:43.920 wires is correct before I try to put them in clip 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:46.000 and clip and then I make sure my heat 00:16:43.920 --> 00:16:51.360 shrink tubing completely covers the sleeving this time make sure it's not 00:16:48.319 --> 00:16:54.360 too loose or too tight Y and then I go 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:56.560 ahead and give it the old 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:59.319 heat really careful with the heat if you guys are using an open flame for this 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 00:17:02.079 --> 00:17:07.640 mess with everything so there you go I have now sleeved my two wires that is 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 00:17:09.880 --> 00:17:15.400 particular so thank you for checking out my little guide and I'm sorry it was