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Anyone have a solution besides heat shrink for these?

I wouldnt bother with the heatshrink on the double wires. You can do it but it has to be perfect. Just pull the sleeve down and burn the end of it and it should stay. Or if you only have 6pin cards just take the double wires out completely that what i did after trying to heatshrink it 5 times. 

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Anyone have a solution besides heat shrink for these?

I wouldnt bother with the heatshrink on the double wires. You can do it but it has to be perfect. Just pull the sleeve down and burn the end of it and it should stay. Or if you only have 6pin cards just take the double wires out completely that what i did after trying to heatshrink it 5 times. 

I have several of them though. The ax750 has probably 10 or 15 of them like that  so just pulling them out isn't an option. Guess ill just wait for me heatshrink 

 
I only did my 24pin and 4 pci cables on my Ax1200. My 24pin had one like that, that i just didnt heatshrink the side with 2 wires and my 670's only take 2 6pin connectors so i just took that double wires off. I tried like 5 times to get it right on my 24pin and was always off by a few mm's. It can be done but it has to be perfect for it to fit back in. 

Great tutorial, I getting some black 550 cord.  I used this stuff all the time when I was in the army, and it never occurred to me to use it as a sleeve material until I read this post.  Great idea!  
 
As a side not this stuff is super strong if you ever need it as a last minute tie down for almost anything, so I would order some extra if you plan on doing this.

nice guide Delirious! I see you chose the path of heatshrinkless sleeving? looking good
 
from own experience I can only drop one word of advice regarding the pin removal from 24-pin / 8-pin and 6-pin connectors (all same pins) ...
 
if you are using a tool of any sort and you struggle with pin removal i.e. it stays locked inside no matter how hard and how long you try ... then most likely your tool is the problem... learned it the hard way ...
 
used SunbeamTech 2-prong Molex pin removal tool like this one here:

on a side note, XOXIDE sells the 4-piece PSU modders toolkit at $12.99:
http://www.xoxide.com/sunbeam-psu-tool-kit.html
 
however my tool came with a factory defect. namely the prongs were not at even length (one was shorter by 0.5mm) and so it was unlocking only one side of pin every time.
after I noticed the problem I trimmed them to same length and even then still no go (angle of prongs were slightly outwards on ends) ... so I modded it a tad further slightly bending the very ends inwards while middle of prongs I bent slightly outwards ... now my tool works like a charm every time!
 
instead of struggling for 1 hour with a single pin (which I damaged eventually), now it takes me literally 5 seconds to remove any pin with zero effort ... something to think about if you keep struggling.
 
here is a good example of an almost perfectly shaped EPS/ATX/MB pin removal tool (Sunbeamtech) in this video:

 
also, here is some extensive knowledge in a FAQ article on OCN by Lutro0, very useful (Lutro0 also posted several excellent video guides on youtube):
http://www.overclock.net/...ked-sleeving-questions
 
just my 2 cents, hope it helps!

Thanks for the great guide. I'll admit I took another look inside my computer after reading.

Great Guide, thinking about purchasing the lamptron myself as well. Just don't know where.

Did my new Seasonic 750 cables.  This was my first go at doing a complete PSU.  I have done some smaller sleeving projects in the past, but only a couple fans or whatnot.  For this upcoming build, I wanted it to have a much more refined and professional look, so I decided to go all out on the cabling.  The fully modular Seasonic cables makes it a bit cleaner, imho.  I don't have any good pictures of the 24, 8 or PCIE cables done, they are in a temp box running ATM.  I do have a couple pix of the front panel cables.  The PSU was done using the same non-heat shrink like in this guide.  (great guide btw). The others, I had to use heat shrink.  Here's how they look. Before eliminating the AC97 plug and sleeving. (BTW, I know there is a good bit of heat shrink on the audio plug...that was intended because where and how It will be routed.)


Done.
More front panel cables finished.

Here is a spare 4pin power I did as a test piece and some of the cables done and installed in my temp setup. Sorry for the less than stellar pictures but only got my phone. The sleeved cables are miles ahead of the stockers in appearance, imho.  Can't wait to get my new case back from the stripper and get started on this project.  Fractal Design XL Ivy Bridge Build.  Should be nice.


I know there is a bare red and one black wire there. They are a couple of the doubles.  I needed to make a splice but didn't get to it yet.  It will be fixed before the final build.









 

where can I order white braided wrap that matches the stuff corsair uses on their individually sleeved kits so I can make other wires match?

This is still a great guide.

Hey I just wanna say thanks for this tutorial. I would've never thought about sleeving my cables before reading this. It helped a lot and now my cables look way better.

Amazing guide!
I was unclear on a few things and this is just fantastic

^ I haven't been able to find one with as good of details on what to do with removing pins and etc. Very great pictures all around this guide is just phenominal

Evgesha9400
But how do you keep track of which cable you removed if they are all black?

Label them

Awesome guide! Will definitely be doing this on my case!!!

Good tutorial, I will say after messing around with home-made molex tools I finally broke down and bought some.

The frozenCPU tools are pretty good, the push/pin extractor is a godsend. Haven't yet bought the official molex tool as it's damn pricey, but the cheaper frozen one is double sided and worked well. Just hurts my hand to hold it.