SATA II/III Cable: Colour

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I'm really not into case modding or pimping or whatever but I have been trying to track down lemon or similiar bright yellow coloured, flat SATA II/III cables, with black connectors and metal locking clip. Ideally I'd want them to match trhe 'Viper Yellow' of my Akasa case and CPU cooler fans.

The problem is that I can't find any SATA cables like this at any of the usual places or specilaist cable sellers. You can find rather insipid pale yellow and orange/yellow ones but nothing even close to what I'm looking for.

The search is further hampered by sellers' listing photographs that haven't been correctly colour balanced and I've wasted time and money buying cables that looked perfect only to be disappointed on receipt. I found a US seller who appeared to have what I wanted from the photos but when I emailed him he, very helpfully and truthfully, admitted the cables he is selling are more orange than yellow.

So does anyone here know where I can get the sort of yellow cables I want?

I've just found the rather good cable braiding guide here and was wondering if there are no SATA cables available of this colour whether there is a cable braiding solution I could use instead?
 
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GeezerButler said:
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Thanks both for the suggestions.

Those are exactly the type I mentioned but I went for a seller whose listing picture looked much more primary yellow. Unfortunately this turned out to be the first example I had of misleading colour balance in the photo. The actual colour turned out to be exactly the same milky yellow as most of the other listed ones.

I've been given links on other forums for places all over the world that sell SATA cables in various colours. For some reason primary yellow ones aren't available from any retailers that I've looked at yet.

So unless somebody can point me somewhere else it does seem I will have to try my hand at SATA cable braiding. Bizarrely primary yellow cable braiding and even full braiding kits are very easily found in the UK.
 
Just an update: in the end I went to the place mentioned in the cable braiding tutorial and found some dense yellow sleeving that, when using a black SATA cable, colour matches the 'Viper Yellow' as well as you're ever going to get it.

Pleased with the results so I decided to try the same thing on the fan power cables and that's where I ran into trouble.

I thought I would be able to get the necessary narrower diameter matching yellow braiding cheaper, at least with less shipping cost, in the UK. But after much online research, wasted money buying braiding of inferior quality/density and, yet again, very different colour from that shown in the sellers' listing I decided I'd have to re-order from the original supplier despite the cost.

Unfortunately though they are apparently re-organising the business and won't be re-opening for weeks. This puts the whole project on hold. :(
 
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