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Computer Cable Management Guide
First we're going
to take a closer look into our wire loom and sleeving
before we begin our work. :)
Wire
loom is practically a thin plastic curled into a tube
shape with an opening all along its body. You can
slide your wires inside the tube and hide everything
inside. It's rather flexible so you can still bend
them around after stuffing your wires inside. We have
a larger wire loom below which we bought from IKEA.
They're perfect to hide all those wires behind your
computer.
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Wire
Loom from IKEA |
A
closer look |
Now
let's take a look at another alternative to cover
your cables. We have some braided sleeves which we
bought from the local hardware store, and some 3/8"
smaller ones from koolpcmods.com.
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Cable
Sleeving |
open
end cut with heated knife |
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open
end cut with scissors |
open
end after expanding |
As
you can see from the above illustrations, they may
not be as easy to work with. Most PC builders would
use shrink tubing to close the open end and hide the
ugly cuts. That's a nice way to do it, but then it's
rather difficult to force the molex connectors through
sleeving of the appropriate size. The only way to
do it is to pull the pins out one by one, pull the
wires through the sleeving and then insert the pins
back into the connectors. However that's beyond the
scope of this tutorial, and we recommend you do a
little research if you decide to take on that path.
Cable
sleeving, however, are incredibly nice in some cases.
We bought some larger ones from our local hardware
store and took some pictures to show you how these
sleeves expand and contract.
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See
how it expands when you squeeze both ends |
Side
by side compression of an expanded and contracted
view |
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