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what's up guys Jays $0.02 here bringing you a video that I'm kind of fanboying over just a little bit because it's something from my computer that I had never personally owned myself and that is going to be some custom sleeve cables to just complete that complete custom ensemble that's inside your computer but before we get to that don't forget guys Jays two cents com is a real thing now so head on over there register today but we're going to do a couple things with this video we're going to not only show you the cables and the quality whoo I got them from and how much they cost and stuff like that but this company also sent me like an entire kit of how to do cable sleeping yourself and I'm going to show you guys just how involved it really is to do something like this to your cables and holy shit is a lot more involved than I ever ever thought it was all right so first things first guys when it comes to these cables I got these through a company called loot row customs and a lot of you seem to have actually heard of this company because I did a tweet and you guys are really excited like holy crap we love their work and so do I man I'm telling you right now you may be surprised but I've never owned custom sleeved cables like this I mean they just give your system that complete look I mean you guys saw my cables before and all of you guys said wow your cables really look like crap considering how much work you put into your computer so I wanted to change that and I contacted these guys and not only did they you know put together this custom sleeves set for me these are extensions they also sent me a whole bunch of product to kind of show you guys so that you can understand the level of quality that goes into their work so that you can know that when you order through them you are getting something that is pretty much unique to you and your needs so I went with the complete extension kit which is the 24 pin extension I've got two times PCI Express extensions you've got 8 pin EPS power for your motherboard which is this guy right here an 8 pin power for your motherboard and your PCI Express are not the same so make sure you note that when you're ordering these don't just order an extra 8 pin for PCI it's not going to work now when it comes to the cable quality Lutrell customs the owner his name is Mike and he basically goes out and he just kind of scours the internet to find the best quality products that he can and he's always finding new suppliers and always increasing the quality of his not only the cable that he uses but the sleeve the connectors and everything just feels extremely sturdy now like I mention we're gonna go ahead and talk about my cables and then we'll talk about what you guys can get from them if you decide to go through them for your custom sleeving now these are extensions as I mentioned however you could give them the specs of your power supply and they can basically if it's modular they can create an entire cable sets you can ditch the stock cables and go ahead and go with full sleeved custom cables if you wanted I didn't go that route because as you guys know I change my stuff out all the time so I want to maintain the look without losing the custom cables because I changed my power supply now the 24 pin on mine you can see he went with a black and then kind of a graphite and then a yellow graphite black graphite yellow black graphite black so I wasn't sold on the graphite at first I'd seen it in pictures but I was thinking myself has it really gonna look all right and trust me it looks fantastic I just it looks so much better than if I had just been black yellow black yellow so he really knows what he's doing with that but what I love about this companies you can get pretty much any color of the rainbow any color combination you want now when you order through them it does take about two weeks for them to process your order because everything is made by hand from scratch now one thing you may also notice with my cables is that there is no heat shrink on there this is a heat shrink list design which looks extremely clean now there's one other thing I really wasn't expecting when it came to their cables that is a definite bonus and I want to point that out you'll notice all their cables have a natural curve to them and the reason for that is they've gone ahead and made the inside line of cables shorter than the outside line of cables and the reason why you do that is typically when you install these the cables are going to curve around somewhere and they know that you know the orientation of the pins are the plugs the connectors are always the same on motherboards and graphics cards are always oriented the same way so they can create that curve that way as they Bend you can see the cables stay together they don't flare out or fan out the problem with when you go with something like this which is a like a ten dollar you know already sleeved extension that you can use one you can see the heat shrink on there is just completely ugly I mean look at that the heat shrink is not all the same length where they cut the sleeve on there it's not all the same it's all make kind of looks like a freaking test pattern or something on there I don't know but as you can see when you straighten out neutral customs cables you can see that the outside cables are longer giving it that curve now watch what happens when I make the curve on the ones that are all the same length like this one here it makes the curve but you notice how they all fan have we we've all seen those custom cables in people's builds where they kind of look like this fluttery fanny mess of cables but you don't get that with loot row customs because they have gone the extra mile to properly lengthen these cables so that you get a nice curve and they stay together one other thing that these cables have are what they call their stealth comb and basically so that you don't get this mess right here how everything's just kind of like you know moving around in there they have these combs on there there's just basically little pieces of plastic they get threaded onto the sleeving so that everything it stays together nice and tight now you don't have to leave them in the middle where they show because I kind of don't like that you can push them off to the sides that's why they're called stealth because they go up against the connector and you don't really see them but you can see they allow you to if your cable sort of get messed up like that you just run the comb through literally it's like combing hair you just go back and forth on it and then everything is back in place again I'm it it works really well on the 24 pin unfortunately they're really fragile and I broke a few of them on my 24 pin when pushing it through the grommet in my 900 d so you want to be mindful of that I only have one on here that works now but because only that much of it shows in my 900 E it's not a problem now these are the cables that I got through Lu TRO custom but they also sell all the materials for you to do this yourself if you want so let's go ahead and show you guys the materials that are involved in doing something like this so that you can just appreciate the amount of work that is involved with customs leaving now as I mentioned there's a lot of tools involved in doing this in fact these are all the tools involved yeah it was a little bit overwhelming when I open the box too and I say that with a little bit of disappointment because quite honestly I thought it was Oh cut the cable crimp it on slide on the sleeve plug it in band move on to the next one let's take this for instance there's 24 wires in this one extension cable now it took me when I was practicing this about five attempts and probably 50 ten minutes before I got one cable that looked anywhere near acceptable to this in fact it's so bad I didn't even putting it on camera now could you imagine how long it would take me to do these right here yeah I would still be doing it I'd probably still be doing it up until retirement so when you order custom cables from Lu TRO customs you get basically a professional that takes all these materials and creates these out of this you have two different types of options here when it comes to sleeving you have plastic sleeve which is what I am using and you can see you've got all sorts of different colors here I mean jeez it any color combination you want if I even have color combos within a single sleeve like this is the black and red one you've got green and black for mind you like an Nvidia but then you also have a paracord that's available this is apparently a lot harder to work with according to Mike because as you can see it's very soft it's like a fabric again every color of the rainbow is included in this paracord is very similar to like the sleeving you would find on headphones or a headset or something like that it's very soft very pliable versus the plastic here which is you know very very rigid so yeah anyway there's that's paracord now you you have heats heat shrinks leaving or heat shrink tubing which is this guy here and that's pretty much what you're seeing on the end of these cheap cables where in order to hold everything together they just put the heat shrink over it heat it up it shrinks and then holds everything together but it just really looks bad I don't like it in fact if you order cables through Lou TRO customs that you request heat shrink tubing on they charge you more because there's more time involved with that when it comes to the connectors they use very high quality connectors as you can see here and I mean they've got every connector that you could possibly need I mean we've got SATA you've got a tub that's a two four six eight ten pin I'm not sure about 10 minutes forward be honest with you so anyway you've got all your your pins here that you could constantly or possibly need and you've also got available through their website all of the tools necessary here are the the the connectors as you can see I went through one two three four five six seven eight went through eight of these pins before I figured out how to crimp it properly sorry Mike I did watch your video but I'm the kind of guy that's like oh let's try first watch videos later and then ruin stuff in the meantime because we didn't pay attention what we were doing you also have the paracord sleeping starter thing which makes it a whole lot easier and then you have your pin extractors here so what I figured we'd do is just to show you kind of how involved this is oh and then of course you have your crimping tool and you have your stripper cutter tool and you also have this thing here which I camera what it's called but it assists in the plastics leaving so here's what we're gonna do we're going to go ahead and make out of this connector right here just a little jumper we're gonna make a little jumper that you would use to start up your power supply you know if you're doing water cuts or water cooling you gotta jump in your power supply to make it start so instead of how to put a paperclip in there yeah we're gonna go ahead make one of these just so that you can kind of see how involved it actually is now normally I would use the black cable but I'm gonna go ahead and use the white cable so you can see it oh you know what it would help if I actually showed you that they use high quality 16 gauge wire all the way up to you or always low as G's member hello there gauge goes but you can select and buy all this stuff through their website so we're going to do is we're going to go and take some white cable here I'm going to just cut off a little bit of piece a little piece of that and then we are going to make a little jumper so that we could start up power supply if we needed now first things first you need to strip the ends of the cable and I don't know if they had a better stripper they sent me two of these cutters maybe they made a mistake I do have an actual wire stripper would you put it on pull a handle and strips it off I'm just using the tools that they gave me here you know leave about maybe an eighth of an inch on the end there and then we won't do the other side yet so the pin that we're going to be using I remember what the pin is actually called but it's the one that would go in the 24 pin connector and this is going to be really really hard to pick up on camera and I'll do the best I can and b-roll you need to use the right portion of the crimper and make sure that it's aligned properly in there so that when you crimp it these little pins that stick up will turn and kind of crimp back on itself and clamp down on both the shielding as well as the pit the cable itself this was the part I was fuckin up on royally because I was just doing this entirely wrong so the first thing you do is you find the gauge on here that matches yours in our case we're going to do the it's on here labeled as the 18 to 22 gauge wire and you're going to stick it in here you're going to stick it in to beginning to see this here get it lined up right on the edge right there and then click it twice so it kind of opens up and now it's holding the pin in there so all you have to do now stick the cable in there until the shielding hits the end and crimp it down and there you go you have a perfectly crimped pin on the end of this wire now if we were going to sleep this and I'm not going to sleep it because this leaving is not the right size for this particular wire I don't think in fact it looks really big compared to it and they've already glued or melted the ends so I'm going to do that so now what you would go ahead and do is do the other side so we're going to go ahead and strip the ends I'm gonna go ahead and now get it ready put it in there crimp it down boom see I'm I feel good at confident at this now because I wasted an entire sleeve of pins trying to figure out how to do it so now we got to do is go ahead and face this up when we go one two three four pins in make sure the little there's like a sled in there make sure that's up pointing up at the top shove it on in there that's good and measure to the fifth pin in push that in there and there we go we have now got ourselves there we've now got ourselves a little power supply jumper thing so yeah guys it's really not that hard if you take the time to practice and do it right but as you can see there's just so much involved in all these different connectors and the reason why I was sounded a little bit disappointed when all these tools came was because I was like this is not something I have the patience for and it made me sad because I realized is this is better left to the experts quite honestly all right so there you go guys the custom sleeve cables from Luke TRO customs complete the custom look for your computer I mean this right here just yeah it's just not I wouldn't but I may put it in my test bed who knows but these guys right here so guys head on over to loot row customs like I said it takes an expert to do this but you can do it yourself if you want to and the pricing of the materials and stuff over at loot row customs quite honestly shocked the hell out of me because they're not nearly as expensive as I thought they would be what do you think about these cables have you ever used loot row customs have you ever seen them before check out their information it's down in the description he also has videos up showing you how to do it properly and if I had watched those a little more in-depth prior to doing this I might not have wasted 8 pins anyway guys I might get on out of here thanks for watching the video thanks for supporting hope you head on over to the website and as always I will see you guys in my next video