How To IDE and floppy ribbon cable sleeving

How To IDE and floppy ribbon cable sleeving
ribbon cable : a cable for transmitting electronic signals consisting of several insulated wires connected together to form a flat ribbon.

Twin-lead
Flexible flat cable
Signal cables

every PC hobbyists knows them and jderd PC hobbyists know how deadly precision the inside of a PC deface: Flat ribbon cable

ribbon cable

even if they are no longer in modern PCs very often, there are still people who for example in retro-gaming PCs or old office computers to flat ribbon cables as you without difficult a floppy or IDE drive. In particular case modders can the unpleasant appearance of this cable problems.
In my retro-PC Casemod i had the problem that I did not know that I made the ribbon cables from the drives sleeving should and have a simple way that I found here would like to explain step by step:

What you need:

- Sleeve and shrink-fit hose (I recommend the appropriate sizes for SATA cable, but of course you can also use other sizes )
- a lighter to the ends of the sleeves to keep before the fraying
- a pair of scissors in order to shrink sleeves and short sleeves (i recommend and shrink tubing for SATA cable or greater, since you through smaller sleeves the cable and then makes unnecessary wider problems, if you can get the cable to the connector stuck)
- a ruler (to measure, who had it Thought )
- a scalpel, pocket knives, knives, Field Knife, butcher knives, carpet knife, Samurai sword or other pointed tool with sharp blades (Caution: Risk of injury! Due to the unwieldy size are tools that are larger than a carpet knives are not recommended.)
- a hot air blower or similar (for emergency does it even a lighter) around the schrumpfschlach to shrink

ide ribbon cable

Then time to get to work:

Since the wires of the cable to the connector are clamped, we must, depending on the cable, one to two retaining clips before you can remove the connector. This should be a sharp knife or slightly longer finger nails. So you can travel and then under the clip to which the clip is attached and prints it up so that you can disconnect the clip.

If the first clip is resolved, the second in the series:

Flexible flat cable - ribbon cable

If this was also removed, one sees that the individual wires orf the cable in the small contact terminals are printed from which the veins simply pull out and put in May (attention, these terminals can be incredibly pointed!).

So you can be the cable sleeving must be the wires in split strings from multiple cores. How wide such a train is depends on how your thick sleeve is because I use SATA-sleeve I have the cable (40 wires) in five lines each with 8 wires disconnected. To do this you simply must with the knife (or whatever you chose) between two wires in the insulation by stinging and separate these two wires ribbon cable.

This makes it again and again after every x. (in my case is x = 8) wire, until you get the desired number of lines.

Then you have the individual strands remove from connector. For ie insulation of the wire is not unnecessarily to damage the wires should be on the Stecher also a little with the knife edit.

Then you can see the individual strings remove from connector.

Since we have now exposed cable, which incidentally you at one end only needs to do, we can start with the sleeving. This works also not much different than in all other cables. It is advisable however, marks on the wire to make, so that we can fit the sleeve evenly.

Tip: heated the shrink tube only briefly and then let him again a bit cool, otherwise it could happen that the insulation of the wires are also soft and by pulling together schrumpfschlach deformed, this is then no longer so beautiful ribbon cable