[PXSS]

 

  Once you finish wrapping them, you have to connect the free ends to whatever they are connecting to. They won't just stay together on their own.
 
Before you solder the ends though, just hold them together and move the cable around. If gaps appear between the two wires, then you probably
need to redo them a little tighter. Just give it a try. I think you will see what I mean.

 
I just don't get it.  My brain is having an epic fail.  I can connect the cables at one end, twist them any way I can think of, connect them at the other end, and they just come untwisted...  I read somewhere that you need to twist each cable counterclockwise around the other, but I don't see how there's any way to twist them other than "around each other".    Can someone draw pictures or something? haha.  Or are some cables not twistable?
 
UPDATE:  o.k.  My mind was just BLOWN!!!  I connected the wire with electrical tape (as a test), twisted them snug but not tightly as you said, sealed the other end with tape... AND THEY DON'T UNTWIST!!!  I don't get it.  How is that any different than taping both ends and then spinning the whole thing as if you're wringing out a towel?  Unreal. hahaha
 
UPDATE #2:  I think I figured it out.  When I taped one end and used my hands I was actually wrapping one cable around the other.  So one of the cables was essentially remaining straight.  Not literally, but I wasn't effectively wrapping that cable in any way, it was the stationary point I wrapped the other one around.  I was thinking in my head it was logically the same thing as wrapping the other one the other way, because when I was done they looked the same.
 
However, when I did it the last time and taped the first end, I held it between my knees and actually did a "left, right, left, right" wrapping of each cable equally.  So I'm thinking maybe that made a difference?  I'm not sure.  But it worked!
 
Thanks a million!  Pardon my stupidity.

Please keep the discussion in the Questions and answers thread.
More pics to the gallery!

 

[luisdent]

 

 

  Once you finish wrapping them, you have to connect the free ends to whatever they are connecting to. They won't just stay together on their own.
 
Before you solder the ends though, just hold them together and move the cable around. If gaps appear between the two wires, then you probably
need to redo them a little tighter. Just give it a try. I think you will see what I mean.

 
I just don't get it.  My brain is having an epic fail.  I can connect the cables at one end, twist them any way I can think of, connect them at the other end, and they just come untwisted...  I read somewhere that you need to twist each cable counterclockwise around the other, but I don't see how there's any way to twist them other than "around each other".    Can someone draw pictures or something? haha.  Or are some cables not twistable?
 
UPDATE:  o.k.  My mind was just BLOWN!!!  I connected the wire with electrical tape (as a test), twisted them snug but not tightly as you said, sealed the other end with tape... AND THEY DON'T UNTWIST!!!  I don't get it.  How is that any different than taping both ends and then spinning the whole thing as if you're wringing out a towel?  Unreal. hahaha
 
UPDATE #2:  I think I figured it out.  When I taped one end and used my hands I was actually wrapping one cable around the other.  So one of the cables was essentially remaining straight.  Not literally, but I wasn't effectively wrapping that cable in any way, it was the stationary point I wrapped the other one around.  I was thinking in my head it was logically the same thing as wrapping the other one the other way, because when I was done they looked the same.
 
However, when I did it the last time and taped the first end, I held it between my knees and actually did a "left, right, left, right" wrapping of each cable equally.  So I'm thinking maybe that made a difference?  I'm not sure.  But it worked!
 
Thanks a million!  Pardon my stupidity.

Please keep the discussion in the Questions and answers thread.
More pics to the gallery!

 
Sorry, I posted it here because I thought diy cablers would have a better idea than others.  All set now.  On with the cable photos!  I'll post mine when I'm done my recable.

 

[ostewart]

Quick phone PIC of a 10ft Sennheiser HD6XX cable I made (will post more when taken properly)

 

[cute]

What wire did you use?  10' must be spendy....

 

[ostewart]

Toxic cables copper. 24awg I think. Around £40 in cable + £15 for HD connectors + £4 for the jack. Can't remember the price of y-split

 

[cogsand gears]

Toxic cables copper. 24awg I think. Around £40 in cable + £15 for HD connectors + £4 for the jack. Can't remember the price of y-split

I think there about £12 ish.

 

[ostewart]

So not to much in total really more the time and patience, I really enjoy making them. Will be making a bunch so lots of pics to come. RCA to mini jack, RCA-RCA, LOD + mini-mini.

 

[Toxic Cables]

  I think there about £12 ish.

£7.50 actually.
 
Oh, i thought you meant the HD650 connectors.
 
The Y splitters are £12.

 

[luisdent]

finished this pair. very gorgeous IMHO. looks very good in real life. better then the photos.

 
Really old post, but those are super sexy.  Where did you get that grey heat shrink?  

 

[TrollDragon]

   
Really old post, but those are super sexy.  Where did you get that grey heat shrink?  

RnB180 hasn't been online here in over two years... You might wait a while for that answer... 

 

[luisdent]

 

   
Really old post, but those are super sexy.  Where did you get that grey heat shrink?  

RnB180 hasn't been online here in over two years... You might wait a while for that answer... 

 
  Oh well.  Still sexy.

 

[AgentXXL]

 

finished this pair. very gorgeous IMHO. looks very good in real life. better then the photos.

 
Really old post, but those are super sexy.  Where did you get that grey heat shrink?  

 
As others have said, you may wait a while for a response from the OP - but a quick Google search for 'grey heat shrink tubing' gave me lots of results.
 
Dale

 

[wje]

A new balanced Hifiman cable.
 

 

 

[mcluxun]

   
Maybe that's my problem.  The cable I'm using doesn't really seem to have any memory.  It just flubs around.  If I twist it gently or tightly it just flops untwisted... So the only way to keep it twisted is by the wire's memory?  There's no other technique to somehow keep them twisted permanently?  Because even twists from memory of the cable would come untwisted it you spun them with your hand, right?  I don't want that.

It confuses me that if you got both ends tied/soldered/heatshrinked how could it untwist?
ultimate solution: heatshrink the whole wire.

 

[luisdent]

 

Maybe that's my problem.  The cable I'm using doesn't really seem to have any memory.  It just flubs around.  If I twist it gently or tightly it just flops untwisted... So the only way to keep it twisted is by the wire's memory?  There's no other technique to somehow keep them twisted permanently?  Because even twists from memory of the cable would come untwisted it you spun them with your hand, right?  I don't want that.

It confuses me that if you got both ends tied/soldered/heatshrinked how could it untwist?
ultimate solution: heatshrink the whole wire.

It's all good. I think it had to do with equally twisting each cable and not doing it in a way that results almost with one wrapped around the other. Once bound at the ends it definitely stayed twisted. I'll post pics of my mh1 recable once it' s finished.