Painting Cables

Chesney420 · 7 Mar 2014 at 11:27

I've got a black case with blue LEDs, Corsair Vengeance ram, a blue stick and a black stick, and a blue and black motherboard. I was wondering can I paint cables inside my case such as the sata and PSU cables to go with the colour scheme?

snips86x · 7 Mar 2014 at 11:31

Not really sure that would work. Have you thought about braiding?

tom_e · 7 Mar 2014 at 11:33

I imagine you could plastidip them ok but as above braiding would probably be the nicer better looking option.

Chesney420 · 7 Mar 2014 at 11:35

snips86x said:
Not really sure that would work. Have you thought about braiding?

Never heard if it. Is this it? http://forums.hexus.net/chassis-mods/150810-cable-sleeving-braid-guide-56k-warning.html

tom_e · 7 Mar 2014 at 11:36

Yep that's it.

snips86x · 7 Mar 2014 at 11:40

tom_e said:
Yep that's it.

Here, you go THIS will give you a complete run down of how to do it. Test on a cable you don't need first as it has potential to go wrong!

Chesney420 · 7 Mar 2014 at 11:48

snips86x said:
Here, you go THIS will give you a complete run down of how to do it. Test on a cable you don't need first as it has potential to go wrong!

Nice one

I'm definitely going to use braid, looks well.

davido_labido · 7 Mar 2014 at 12:09

if you dont fancy doing it yourself, pop me a message

OLDPHART · 7 Mar 2014 at 13:31

You can get spiral wrap different colours and its dirt cheap fleabay.

HalfBakedJake · 7 Mar 2014 at 15:36

Another handy tip is for the best colour's to wrap the cable of your sata cable in White electric tape. Makes for a better colour one braided.

davido_labido · 7 Mar 2014 at 16:44

or just do as i do, and remake the cables using white wire

its only worth it with yellows, oranges, whites and reds though (possibly a light blue)

most other colours will be fine on black wire or coloured wire.

Chesney420 · 11 Mar 2014 at 10:52

davido_labido said:
if you dont fancy doing it yourself, pop me a message

I think I'll take you up on that offer as I don't trust myself to not break something :eek:

Heavenkiss · 11 Mar 2014 at 11:09

davido_labido said:
if you dont fancy doing it yourself, pop me a message

Deffo can't figure out how to message on these forums... ha

Can you throw me a quick message I can reply to please David?

Thanks

MorleySA · 11 Mar 2014 at 11:15

Davido what wire do you use to make your own wires? tempted to do this for my build....

davido_labido · 11 Mar 2014 at 11:17

You need to enable your trust buddy, to do that click on the trust button on one of your posts and login using your forum account. Tick the box saying 'enable trust' then you should be able yo trust message me.

I can't message you until that's done, if you still can't figure it out, pop another post on here and I'll sort something out tomorrow =)

Chesney420 · 11 Mar 2014 at 11:20

davido_labido said:
You need to enable your trust buddy, to do that click on the trust button on one of your posts and login using your forum account. Tick the box saying 'enable trust' then you should be able yo trust message me.

I can't message you until that's done, if you still can't figure it out, pop another post on here and I'll sort something out tomorrow =)

Done

I think...

davido_labido · 11 Mar 2014 at 11:22

MorleySA said:
Davido what wire do you use to make your own wires? tempted to do this for my build....

I buy my wire in bulk. Depending on what I'm doing I use 16 or 18 awg wire. Mainly 18 as its a bit thinner, but still can handle it.

Pop me a message and I'll sort you out some if you want, you know you will get the right stuff then and I'll probably be able to do it cheaper than elsewhere.

davido_labido · 11 Mar 2014 at 11:25

Chesney420 said:
Done I think...

Cool, I've sent you a message. It will go to your email address.