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Offline BlueBär

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Need help with sleeving a coiled cable
« on: Sun, 08 September 2013, 15:35:41 »
I bought this 3m USB coiled cable because I love coiled cables, and I thought why not sleeve it? I know that it was going to be a bit of a pita but not this bad...

So doing the first third was actually quite ok, then the tape I put around the tip came off, I continued on and I have about half of it done but I'm absolutely stuck now. The last ~10 coils I tried using wax to kind of lubricate it, but that didn't do much at all. I also tried warm water (because I thought the paracord might expand because of the warmth) but that made it worse. I tried pulling on the sleeve itself as well, but that didn't do anything. This is my current progress:

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Can anybody with a bit more sleeving experience give me tips?

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Re: Need help with sleeving a coiled cable
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 08 September 2013, 15:36:15 »
Ask paranoid, he knows how to do it. :)

Offline BlueBär

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Re: Need help with sleeving a coiled cable
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 08 September 2013, 15:40:51 »
Whoa that was a quick reply :)

I asked pexon since he does coiled cables, but he didn't answer, and paranoid does just normal cables.

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Re: Need help with sleeving a coiled cable
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 08 September 2013, 15:42:07 »
Whoa that was a quick reply :)

I asked pexon since he does coiled cables, but he didn't answer, and paranoid does just normal cables.
Paranoid does coiled cables too :)
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Re: Need help with sleeving a coiled cable
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 08 September 2013, 15:45:21 »
Oh ok, didn't know that, I'll shoot him a message.

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Re: Need help with sleeving a coiled cable
« Reply #5 on: Sun, 08 September 2013, 15:58:34 »
Good luck with that! Coiled cables are pretty hard to sleeve but if you stretch the cable out some it might help.
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