PSU Sleeving Guide

The reason for me doing this guide was the fact that ones I've previously read up on were lacking in some of the details that I thought would make this job a lot easier, so please read on for my insight on PSU Sleeve Modding.

The PSU I am using is a Triple fan TTGI 520w.

This is the UVFLEXO PET Expandable sleeving that I used bought from WWW.SVC.COM.

Here is the Molex tool extractor that you can get readily available at RadioShack part # 274-223.

Before I start to extract the pins out of the Molex plugs I first want to measure out the length of the sleeving and cut it to size, I basically allow approximately 1/2" up to the where the pins fit into the Molex plug.

One other point to mention before you start to extract those pins out especially if your doing this for the first time is to possibly mark which pins fits in which socket in the Molex plug, this may make it easier for you to put everything back together again with confidence!

Once you have extracted all the pins out the Molex plugs I then proceed to tape the pins with electrical tape ( any kind of tape will work) , now I didn't just bind them all in one big bundle as the one of the points of doing this was to make it easier to slide the UVFLEXO sleeving over the pins.

Trying to slide the UVFLEXO sleeving over the pins is extremely difficult if you try to slide it over the bare pins ! As you can see from this next image.

So what I did was stagger the pins so as to make the whole bundle as thin as possible , as you will see in the next two images (wire ties are there to keep it in place while I taped it up).

Now once I have all my leads all taped up I then begin the task of making sure that my UVFLEXO sleeving is not going to fray which is a very common problem I've seen and encountered a few times myself, so basically to eliminate any chance of fraying I just heated and lightly melt the ends with my trusty soldering iron, now if you just heat up and while it's still in it's contracted state you will have a difficult time then trying to get the UVFLEXO sleeving over your taped up pins, so out comes the Molex tool extractor once more, all I did was to slide the UVFLEXO sleeving over the Molex tool extractor which is perfect for doing this and then use the soldering iron to gently melt and bind the ends together but in a expand form.

Now the UVFLEXO sleeving should (being the operative word) slide nicely over the cables and pins that are taped up.

Now when trying to move the UVFLEXO sleeving over the cables I found out the best way was to push the sleeving over the cables as opposed to dragging it over, just take you time and don't rush this as it's very easy to disfigure the braiding.

To clean off the ends of the UVFLEXO sleeving I used some clear heat shrink tubing from WWW.CABLEORGANIZER.COM.

Before I heated up the heat shrink I replaced the pins back into the Molex plug making sure that the wires are correctly orientated.

Here is the finished result of my UVFLEXO sleeving project.

After all the hard work here is what the PSU looks inside my case with twin UV cathode tubes shining.