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I remember those, wirecare right? I was thinking of going down the qables route but I'm still not sure.

Wirecare does sell it but there're many other places offering it too.
The Qables stuff is just ridiculously big to me.
Personally, I don't like any kind of y-splitter like this on the cable. Some nice tricks with heatshrink would look much better and neater.

yeah, just don't want to have to spend any unneeded money if a simple heatshrink trick will make it look that nice.

It's just the 3:1 adhesive heatshrink that's been pressed by needle-nosed pliers.

thanks..clean, simple, and cheap. perfect

Take the barrel of a Neutrik 3,5 straight, or if you want smaller, take the screw-on barrel of the Neutrik 3,5mm angled and put that on the y-split, put some heatshink on it and you have a nice looking spit.

Look what I did here

oooh.. I like that. And seeing as how I have an extra neutrik barrel lying around, I think I will try both that as the y-split and the needle nose pliers and see which I am more satisfied with. Btw, what size heatshrink did you use there and was it 2:1 or 3:1

I pinched that idea from Bonthouse also!

3:1 with 11 to 3.something :P Good luck and please do post some pics!

Nice work as always, Spud!

thanks...will do as soon as i get them made.

Has anybody sourced red heatshrink from mouser that is red and not pink?

I'm looking for the brilliant ferrari-red that you see on APS cables.. Not the faded t-shirt red that I see on most diy cables.

The only stuff I had like that came in a mixed bag off e-bay. It was not like the 'normal' stuff, it was thicker and went really shiny when I shrank it. Must have been vinyl or similar.

They sell red heatshrink, you can find it on eBay or any other wire/sleeving specialty store.

You probably bought PVC heatshrink. I made that mistake when I first started building, I had to throw it out it looked so bad.

Hi everyone,

Here is my first cable project. It is a cable for my Super.fi 5 Pros. I'm pretty happy with my first attempt! I would probably use a lower guage wire next time, as this 28 awg stuff is a little too thin to leave unjacketed. The techflex looks nice but is definately not ideal on the leads from the split to the earbuds. I think next time I will use larger (probably 24 awg, maybe 22) wire and skip the techflex on those parts. Other than that, I am happy with the end result. Definately a step up from the factory cable!


Parts:
28 awg Silver Plated Copper stranded wire
1/8" Clear Techflex
Switchcraft right angle 3.5mm plug
Pins salvaged from old UE cable (really easy to do)

where do you guys get these cables?