Project Stealthlow

[Waynio]

This lot took me ages to sort out, the place I bought my molex cable & fan cable mixed them together & they were a nightmare to untangle.

My first 2 ok crimps.

My first 2 wires done, but I'll be taking these out to re do them, so I'll use the rest of the atx crimp pins to get my technique perfect, but I had to make a new order for a pile of female crimp pins & a tiny bit more sleeving & some nice black fan headers, so yeah the sleeving is back on hold for the time being, at least I'll be good & ready to go at it like I know what I'm doing when it gets here & yes I now realise the heat shrink should only be showing a little which is why I'll re do these to get it perfect .

The lighter worked out best for me, tried the heat gun but it was blowing the heat shrink around too much lol whereas the lighter worked perfectly .

[Waynio]

OK now I feel the pain on my finger tips but moreso blisters from clenching the pliers lol but thats mostly because of the DIY pin remover I'm using (a grinded flat piece of a paper clip & using pliers to drive it through) lmao , hopefully I never laughed at anyone when they mentioned it is painful because now it's time for them to say haa haaaa if I ever did , think I just did in my mind , anyway I'm glad to say I'm not creating any waste since last night & I have a trick up my sleeve for getting any of the heatshrinks that aren't the same, a razer to finish them off , but they are very close but I'll leave it to you lot to judge .

LOL I keep nodding off to sleep, I better jump on my bed .

[SXRguyinMA]

nice work! looks great!

[xr4man]

very nicely done. the heatshrink looks great to me.

[x88x]

Nicely done! And yes, the proper tool does make pulling those pins a lot easier.

[Waynio]

nice work! looks great!

very nicely done. the heatshrink looks great to me.

Nicely done! And yes, the proper tool does make pulling those pins a lot easier.

Thanks guys the reason I avoided investing in an atx pin remover is I've heard quite a lot of people say they aren't much good & they break too easily but I think I should have got one anyway & just be careful with it but anyway I'll do an awesome cross type tool that does all the pin removing jobs in one .

[Waynio]

Haha I couldn't resist waiting for the crimp pins & used the final 8 female pins for an extension lol.

I took the pictures first under my daylight bulb & then with a shade covering the shine & it gives a dramatically different look, looks blingy under direct light & like awesome shoe laces without .

So thats the CPU & ATX cable done .

[Waynio]

Ahaa just when I thought I'd run out of things to sleeve with the bits I have I thought I'd make a start on the sata power cables, next up is fan sleeving I used nothing but the scrap stuff I have for doing these so I reclaimed all the black wire & put all of it to use & I'll be able to finish these off easily with the waste sleeving & still have plenty for shortish sleeving jobs, I'm now quite confident I'll be able to sleeve everything .

Only got 1 WIP pic of this bit & it's pretty dark.

Couldn't take this any further as I need the female crimp pins.

Plus I already have the left angle sata cables & they are sata 3 .

[SXRguyinMA]

those came out awesome! +rep

[Waynio]

those came out awesome! +rep

Thanks mate , the sata power cables could have been done a little better but I aint pulling it all apart to re do them lol .