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DIY Custom SleevingPart 1

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TOOLS Sleeving, wire, heatshrink, patience, and tough fingers.

. We’re not just talking about bad cable management either—the physical look of them can ruin the prettiest PC. Thankfully, it isn’t often that we see the old-style “ketchup and mustard” cables anymore, and nowadays higher end PSU manufacturers are even doing pre-sleeved cables with their products, but still they’re often the incorrect color or just look wrong. You are also at the manufacturers’ mercy as to how long they are. Today we’ll show you what you will need to tame these snake-like beasts and get those PCs looking as good as you do. We will do this in multiple parts, as cable sleeving takes some explaining, and it does have an element of risk. This first part of the tutorial will go through the tools that

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