Few weeks ago i saw a stunning thread at garage sale there, someone(my good friend actually) offer 1k for sleeve his Corsair AX1200 cable.
Very soon, a guy took his offer. So my friend was expected some MDPC looks (or maybe close to it) on his cable sleeving, because 1k sleeving should worth for it.
But after seeing the result my friend was extreme disapointing. I think many of you guys are witness for this job, its seriously not up to standard.

After many of sms and pm with my friend regarding this issue, this current sleeving project log was born.
So i took the job for re-sleeving all his AX1200 cable, i'm here to challenge the 1k sleeving result.
I might fail to do so, you guys make the judgement.


I received the cable few days ago from my client--->acther, so i start here.

This is the result of 1k sleeving.



My client was so worry about his cable, since the result was totally not convicing.
And i start to checking the wire 1 by 1, surprisingly i found this.



So i do the replacement wire for him, luckily i got all the stuff on hand.
Cut 2 wire into require length.


The crimp contact.


And the result.







After the wire replacement i start to take out the wire from the connector using my MDPC pin remover "Kluang edition" haha.



I'm going to cut all the heatshrink out and re-sleeve the wire, the following picture below might make you feel uncomfortable.

Another surprise for me and my client.



Guess what, its double sided tape on the wire.
Maybe its a new technic on sleeving.


1st wire done, still many to go.



New heatshrink and black sleeve had been cut.



1st attempt on my sleeving.



2 wire able to done today, because use too much time on cleaning the double sided tape.

wah lao !
which A-hole did that man !
damn !
that looks super awful !

forumer limhongwoon took the job first. sad case.

@nej: looking forward to your sleeving bro. saw the one on your thread, it was magnificent. good luck!

1k sleeving??!!!its just too much with that kind of quality..even retarded child can do sleeving better than that ..of course with adequate and suitable equipment
gud luck bro on re-sleeving it back

oh my...what a mess!!!
gud luck on resleeving it back bro....

what sh*tty job is that?. i cant even believe that can piece of junk can be handed to the customer.

lol, destroyed the cable...

actually sleeving job might looks easy, but it took hell lot of time and patient. nice job TS...

nice work nej awesome

somebody should put that lim dude in shady thread in RRR
lol

wait
that fella actually cut the wire and then did a coverup??


This post has been edited by cstkl1: Mar 15 2011, 01:28 PM

from the looks of it, I think he spoiled the cables and connectors then tried to cover it up. No wonder la acther got pissed off.

it seems spoiled the cable while attempting to remove it from the molex. anyway, TS did a very good job on repairing the cable with proper tools.

keep up ts on the MM sleeving style.

Im lucky enough to know nej, else have to reorder cables from corsair direct. The 24 pin came faulty after sleeving by limhongwoon which makes me piss off. He only willing to pay a 250 refund or send the cables back him to repair. I'm more than unwilling to send it back to him. Sometimes i really don understand these ppl where thy can really accept ppl's offer n cant do the job.

lol, take rm1k thn refund rm250 ? should be refund more since he not only unable to complete the project, sommore spoiled the cables.. luckily the damaged cable didnt kill ur psu.

cable sleeving is not something you can get right the first time. kena banyak prektis on sample cables before can get it right

congrats on job well done TS )

@limhongwoon tu la. kutuk2 org lagi. sendiri bikin explode. wakakaka

(looking forward for your project nej)

I think you better start a dispute thread against him, so no one will be victimised by him again.

I agree with hypermax.

For RM1k, that kind of workmanship is totally unacceptable.

everyone should gather in johor hunt the fella down in a KKK costume
lol

jk

Ya very lame job.

Thank you bro, hope the result not going to disappoint you.

Thanks, will trying my best.

Thanks, working hard right now.



Totally agree, really need lots of patient.
Hopefully my sleeving can get close to MDPC's looks.


Thanks for the kind words bro.
That fella just force/push the wire back into the pin molex.
If this kind of job being post in RRR, that fella will get hell lots of flamming from REDS lol.

bro lichyetan points out the correct issue.

Thanks for the praise, will show you guys the best i could do.

I would like to say thank you bro by giving me this opportunity on working out your cable and show it here.
It really means a lots to me.
It will be really a big big different by showing/sharing the result here compare to watching the sleeving myself.
I haven getting into the 24 pins, but i'll make sure that i'm going to check 100% on it.

Agree bro, it take times and experience making your skill better and better.
Practice on sample cables was a good idea, but before this i was using my GF's pc to practice my sleeving skill lol.
When she notice what i'm doing, i end up buying pink!!! sleeve to sleeve her psu on her request.
But forget about the result.

Thank you bro, will show you some result soon. (hopefully hehe)

Hmmm.... it depends on bro acther's decision.

Seriously it doesn't worth for it.

Relax bro, this was a very good experience for him and for everyone including me.

Hi guys, some result to show here.
It just a very short update, cant really do it any faster.
I knew my progress are way too slow, but patience is the essential for sleeving ha.

8 pin power connector sleeve done.
Here is the how it looks like.







It still not MDPC level, but its the best i could do.
The result was up to my standard, what do you guys think.

beautiful

juz one word.... AWESOME!

better lol

I approve!!

i forsee a ton of ppl askin nej to conduct a sleevin workshop.

LOL..

me included

very nice sleeving...

Nej, you order all the tools from MDPC ? how much it cost on shippings ?

I was interested to get all the proper tools in future, its a pain without proper tools.

nice job nej...welldone!!!
thats MM standards...

that is what we call sleeving..lol
sleeving is to make psu cable more owesome, beauty, safe, comfortable lol

Nice work there boss However it will take a long time to sleeve everything so well (especially if it's the whole PSU).

haha, kinda like if rm1k sleeving, the rm1k is for the sleevers whole month salary. and yet, ppl who sleeve need spent few hours daily to complete the whole PSU if want to sleeve like MM style.

Yeah, it's a tedious job I haven't fully sleeved my PSU as well and the moment I think of sleeving it, I have second thoughts

i failed to do mine as well, so far just sleeved 6pin, but the result is very noob.

in future, maybe ask for TS service

Me too, I don't mind paying some charges for someone to get it done nicely

Very good job

I know its not easy

Thanks.

Thanks you my friend.



Thanks for the approve ha.

You are over estimated me bro , maybe just some sleeving jobs will do.

Thanks you bro, ya all the stuff i'm using are all from MDPC-X.
Oh ya except the "Alladdin" lighter.
I think about Rm100 postage fees should ship all your require items.

MM standard.... i wish... thank you.

Haha i think i'm more like a plastic surgeon for psu cabling now.

Thanks boss, you running big business now huh.
Working hard now.

The condition between me and acther doesn't base on 1k for sleeving job.
But i would like to keep the condition as a secrete between me and him.

Keep it up man.

Its ok my friend, it just need more and more practice on that.
I'm just like you when i start to sleeve.
I usually order more heatshrink than i need, for re-sleeve purpose when i found the the result doesn't looks good.

Maybe we can work out something in the future if you need it.

Ya its tough job, but when you saw the feed back it just worth for it.

Another update here, manage to finish 2 pcie cable.
After this update, there will be delay a bit because i have not enough sleeve on hand.
Waiting for another parcel from nils.

A very short update for you guys.
Thanks you for all the support, it really motivate me a lots.
I think i learn more from this sleeving job.








I hope you guys are enjoy the picture and the sleeving result.

Jen, what camera r u using? nais pic btw....

How about this, you sell me the PSU after you finish sleeving the whole thing?

RM2000 to alvin. he will sure take it

dear ts,
i think u better put pictures before and after sleeving so that we know the differences between good sleeving and bad sleeving.
coz i want to try sleeving too

Actually if it's yours I will offer RM2500 because it has your smell on it

TS should buy few PSU, sleeve them... diff model 750, 1000, 1200 watts... thn sell them at some price...

good idea

nicely done...!! love to see nej worklog...

I'm using Canon 100D, not really pro in DSLR still learning.

A bit difficult lo, maybe i order the psu u need and sleeve for you haha.

I'll dream about it.

ok ok upon request i'll post it later.
Sleeve is very interesting, everybody should try it out.

Like this i'll bankrupt very soon lo.
Still prefer like now, i sleeve upon request ha.

I'll see what i can do.

Thank you bro, i'm glad to hear you like it.

Here is the picture showing before and after re-sleeve.

Before: 1K sleeving


This is after i re-sleeve the pcie cable.


Good day...

bro no update on 24 pin sleeving job??

The 24 pins was the most difficult part for sleeving.
I'm going to finish all easy part 1st.
But soon I'll get into 24 pins.
Will update here when every things ready.

yeah and then ppl will start lowballin in garage thread.

better the buyer buy the psu, buy the sleeving. pay the fee and wait
dontcha think

yeah... u got the point also. I forgot about the lowballers.

i think limwonhong wun appear in tis section anymore

Hmmm... This should be a better way ha.

Everyone got different need, so better just sleeve what you need than stock everythings.

He will still be here if he did the things right next time.

much better quality than before.
ur fren should pay u more than 1k for that sleeve than.

question:

1. how do you make sure the sleeve/heat shrink length are correct?
2. if wire bend, will the sleeve bend too?

i still remember my first sleeving

wasnt as bad as the ones in the first pics .. broken wires?? glued??

maybe just long heatshrinks (smaller ones look better)..

oh my god. . . the first sleeving was like =,= . . . the resleeving looks good ^^

nej: Do you shrink the tubes before putting it back into the sockets or after ? I love the consistency of your sleeve. U deserve every bit of your effort, and much more. Thumbs up for good work and excellent consistency.

eh sleeves can stretch dude.

mdpc sleeves are really tight woven. so u can just the right stretch for bending wires

cheaper sleeves tend to over stretch which is y u get that inflated look.

if only somebody knows where they buy the sleeves from

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Added on March 25, 2011, 5:50 pmeh obviously he did bro since he is taking out each ends and in this case even more extreme

he is using custom wires + contacts

i wonder hmm if use gold plated contacts will improve the psu efficiency..

just a thought

This post has been edited by cstkl1: Mar 25 2011, 05:50 PM

I'm not sure about gold contacts, will let nej give his opinion on this. But I was actually referring to the end process of his sleeving, before he slides the contacts back into the brackets, did nej shrink the tube onto the wires 1st or he shrink it after fitting back into the black brackets. Hope i didn't confuse any1 here. I've done sleeving b4 but not mdpc sleeving, too tedious for me. So, in my case, i shrink the tubes onto the wire b4 slotting it back into the brackets.

I think he shrinks the tubes first before slotting them back.

hehe no update ? looking for the final outcome

This post has been edited by taxidoor: Apr 11 2011, 12:12 PM

Wah wah wah....Now you make me feel like using up those MDPC sleeves I had stored up in the corner of my house and start new worklog project too...Damn awesome work Nej!

*Waiting for new Seasonic PSU to come*

haha i'll dream about it.

Its about experience and a lots of patience to take measurement to making it look nice.



Thanks.

Ya, i shrink it before putting it into the molex.

Hmmm... not sure about the efficiency of gold plate contact.
But the old HX1000 was using gold plate contact.

I did it exactly same like you did.



Coming...

Thank u, must make use all those quality sleeve.

Hi everyone, i'm back with some photo here.
I knew that i'm delaying hell lots of time to finish this.
I'm running out of sleeve to continue this project, the last order from nils take about 1 1/2 months to arrive in Malaysia.
And i'm having some issue with the local custom regarding the parcel.
I'm glad that everythings was fine now, and i'm getting back on track.

The 24 pins was tougher than my expect, the result are fairly acceptable, so it took me more time to do the revision.
Sleeve and re-sleeve it again and again.
Eventhough the result was not MDPC standard but i think it doesn't hurt to show here.

Here is the result, the following photo will showing before and after i re-sleeve the 24pins cable.

This is the result before i re-sleeve the cable.





This is after i re-sleeve the cable.











The last picture is the Sata power cable.



Thanks for checking in.

any chance to make a video guide on sleeving from 0 to complete..? 2-3 wire.. btw, awesome result..!!

Why not you just search in YouTube or google? There are plenty of guides around

daym nej that looks pretty awesome!

nej is just toooo pro in sleeving

Look nice to me
You did a good job of salvaging someone crap

very nice sleeving skill ah jen. must say that not everyone is able to sleeve as a pro like nej did. the real owner must be smiling wide2 now haha... was wondering whether nils has smaller size than this sleeve or not I think slimmer sleeve could be easier for the heatshrink to fit into the connector.

Man the guy who did the job before really took the owner for a ride. I would definitely NOT pay even RM100 for the $#!+ job.

nice, nej can do business d.

really2 nice bro. damn jealous of ur skill. really took passion doing those sleeve

I think i cant make it, i cant make video while i'm sleeving.
Mr. clawhammer have a very good suggestion.



Thanks bro.

Thank you for the kind words.

I'm glad you like it.

Bro you mean the whole sleeve going into the connector?
I saw someone at XS did, but he didn't use heatshrink on that method sleeving.
The guy crimp the sleeve together with the wire and push the sleeve into the connector.

Relax man...

Haha i hope so.

Thanks bro, hope you like it.

slim sleeve looks nicer like this:

bro was wandering.. where did u get ur TJ07 powdercoated at??

Very neat/nice job nej . now original AX1200 cable look like eyesore .i'll definitely look out for u if i'm feel like wanna sleeve my psu cable next time.

Wahhh..very nice la..

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Added on May 16, 2011, 2:09 amTeach me can r haha

This post has been edited by fridel: May 16 2011, 02:09 AM

Kedai kereta Ah Hong (same matte black paint as the Mercedes Brabus)

ya, teach me and give me some hints. I facing trouble to shrink the tube nicely. End up with heatshrink that are not even and also edges of the sleeves not even

You need a heatgun, it helps a lot

boss lend me ur heatgun can

i am using hair dryer. heat gun helps alot compare tp hair dryer ?

This is different braid from mdpcx, it's thinner but it might still see through the inner wire once u bend the wire a bit.
Obviously, it's nice looking thought.


I did my powder coat locally (Johor).
Last time I know a factory somewhere at puchong did a good job on powder coat.

thanks mate, maybe we can work out somethings in the future.

Thank u, no problem if we got time to meet up.


It's very hard to explain here, but 2 things very important.
1st is to do the marking for sleeve onto wire.
2nd is do the marking for heatshrink onto wire also.
And the last is to prepare lots of heatshrink, replace the heatshrink whenever necessary.

Never try heat gun before, should do the job so.
But the heatgun need times to heat up right, I'm kind of lazy to wait.


I personally prefer using lighter, not so sure how it compare to hair dryer or heatgun.

lighter is the best imo since it provides the most heat, but u need to be very carefull.. a lil bit exposed too long will fry the wire/sleeve or the heatshrink ..

btw nej how do u capture those beautiful pics.. cant seem to find good lighting/angles for it.. .. mesti confirm guna RM20k punya lense nih..

This post has been edited by reiben05: May 18 2011, 07:43 PM

I'm really not so sure how to shot a good picture, the way i did was shot a lots of pictures and then choose the best few to post.
Be frank, i'm still learning. I'm using Canon 500D DSLR with it's original lens, quite suitable to beginner just like me.
Definitely not kind of 20k lens.
But i can share with you the condition when i'm taking photo.
I always took the photo indoor "actually inside my room", my room using yellow lighting. (i think white color lighting should be better)
That's why you can see most of my photos are a bit yellowish.
I'll always put the item on a white color back ground, and tripod is a MUST.

I think the proper skill on taking photo need explain by real "sifu", i'm just try and error.