Cable braiding question

jonnylaris · 15 Mar 2012 at 15:53

Hi guys,

I finally got a load of 3mm cable braid in black and red and am going to attempt to single braid my psu 2nite.

I was going to braid one of the spare cables that came with the psu just to see how it went first but it has some sort of plastic cylinder on it that looks hard to remove, here is a pic:

Anyone got some ideas as to how to remove this?

Also, I got 3mm mod/smart braid with 3mm 3:1 heatshrink, and it seems to be a little hard to get the heatshrink over the braid. Did I get the wrong size of heatshrink or is this ok?

Cheers guys!

jonnylaris · 15 Mar 2012 at 17:25

Does anyone know where to buy it in the UK? Most places do that crappy mod/smart non-dense crap :/

OCUK doesn't stock any braid so I'm guessing its ok to ask this.

jonnylaris · 15 Mar 2012 at 18:04

Thanks King,

Any ideas on where to buy 550 Paracord? Also, what size would I need for it?

jonnylaris · 15 Mar 2012 at 18:33

Would this be ok?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/550-PARACORD-US-GSA-COMPLIANT-CONTRACTOR-100-feet-/250703183702?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&var=&hash=item8012870d2c

jonnylaris · 15 Mar 2012 at 18:57

Paracord really does look so much better. I just ordered 30m black and 30m red from that ebay shop for 14 quid lol!

It says the paracord is 3.2mm, is that ok?

Also where do you get the silver rings from?

Cheers!

jonnylaris · 15 Mar 2012 at 19:14

I'm only looking to braid 24pin, 8pin and 2 pci-e 6pin cables though.

My psu is a corsair hx750 watt so I'm just doing the cables that aren't modular (which means opening up my psu).

jonnylaris · 15 Mar 2012 at 21:21

Not sure about the split ring, while its a good idea, it is visible which I don't really like.

I'm going to try the heatshrinkless method and just melt the end of the cord onto the pin.

jonnylaris · 15 Mar 2012 at 22:08

Surely the ring doesn't fit inside the connector tho?

Does it really burn the fingers that much doing the melting method? lol

jonnylaris · 15 Mar 2012 at 22:49

Even with paracord?

jonnylaris · 16 Mar 2012 at 00:22

This is where I saw it done:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFUDqEvhmho

Seems pretty easy to me.

Edit: Ended up breaking my pulse modding tool while experimenting with a spare cable

It's ****ing extremely hard to get the pins out of these connectors from the HX750 :S