Before i start, i apologise in advance if this is in the wrong section.
While i was at home bored today, i had ago at braiding a few Sata/Fan cables which if i do say so myself was pretty straight forward hence i decided to make a straight forward guide.
For those who like to have tidy cable managed PC like myself will appreciate this guide.
Requirements
x1 SATA Cable
x1 length (I had 1M) of 6mm Cable Braid
x1 length (Again 1M) of 13mm Heatshrink
Pair of scissors
Lighter
Hairdryer.
First off we'll start with whats needed for braiding our SATA cables
As you can see in this picture, i've cut a piece long enough to cover the SATA cable & cut two pieces of heatshrink similar size.
When You've cut the braided sleeving to your required size, it's usually a good idea to syringe both ends of the braided sleeving with a lighter so they do not fray when trying to push over the ends of the SATA cable.
Before the braided sleeving is put over the SATA cable i chose to put both the cut down heatshrinks over the braided sleeving like so
You could put the braided sleeving on first and the slide the heatshrink over, but i found it easier this way.
After that begin to slide the braided sleeving over 1 end of the SATA cable.
When approximatley half of the braided sleeving has covered the SATA cable, slide both the heatshrinks over too, like so.
When done, slide over the rest of braided sleeving as pictured below.
Move both heatsrhink pieces to each end of the SATA cable
This is where the hairdryer comes into play, once your happy with the positioning of the heatshrink, shrink it! Obviously do both ends.
Viola, my finished product
Hope this guide will help someone else into doing their own braided cables as i did with mine, good luck and have fun!
Andy`
While i was at home bored today, i had ago at braiding a few Sata/Fan cables which if i do say so myself was pretty straight forward hence i decided to make a straight forward guide.
For those who like to have tidy cable managed PC like myself will appreciate this guide.
Requirements
x1 SATA Cable
x1 length (I had 1M) of 6mm Cable Braid
x1 length (Again 1M) of 13mm Heatshrink
Pair of scissors
Lighter
Hairdryer.
First off we'll start with whats needed for braiding our SATA cables
As you can see in this picture, i've cut a piece long enough to cover the SATA cable & cut two pieces of heatshrink similar size.
When You've cut the braided sleeving to your required size, it's usually a good idea to syringe both ends of the braided sleeving with a lighter so they do not fray when trying to push over the ends of the SATA cable.
Before the braided sleeving is put over the SATA cable i chose to put both the cut down heatshrinks over the braided sleeving like so
You could put the braided sleeving on first and the slide the heatshrink over, but i found it easier this way.
After that begin to slide the braided sleeving over 1 end of the SATA cable.
When approximatley half of the braided sleeving has covered the SATA cable, slide both the heatshrinks over too, like so.
When done, slide over the rest of braided sleeving as pictured below.
Move both heatsrhink pieces to each end of the SATA cable
This is where the hairdryer comes into play, once your happy with the positioning of the heatshrink, shrink it! Obviously do both ends.
Viola, my finished product
Hope this guide will help someone else into doing their own braided cables as i did with mine, good luck and have fun!
Andy`
