Reddit reviews 100ft - 1/2 inch PET Expandable Braided Sleeving – Black – Alex Tech braided cable sleeve
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Size: Diameter: 1/2"| Length: 100 Feet | Color: Black. Diameter expands by 50%. Our wire sleeve is made from PETOperating temp(degree F.):-103 to 257|Melt temp: 446.Our braided cable sleeve is used in automotive Hifi audio speaker hdmi wireOur PET expandable braided sleeving : UL | ROHS | REACH | Halogen FreeOur cable sleeving protects and prolongs the life of wires. Economical and easy to installRecommended: Cut Braided Sleeving with a HOT KNIFE to prevent fraying, if a Hot Knife is not available, make sure to sear the edges with another heat source (example: use the flame from a lighter)
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B074GMNW7T although the price is very high right now (I paid $31), and that's the Canadian site. Much cheaper on the US site for the identical product (which f***ing pisses me off to no end). Even the SKUs match: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074GMNW7T
Although I used 1/2" techflex because I already had a whole bunch left over from the speaker cable build, it should ideally be 5/8" or 3/4". The final outer diameter of the cable is about 0.7".
Wish I had a nice fat ferrite bead to slap on there too. Unfortunately, out of the 30 or so ferrites I have leftover from my ham radio days, the biggest ones only fit ~0.58" cable.
To avoid kinks that bad in the future you may want to try this , and this is what I used to cover the ends of sleeving. I found a few reddit posts and it seemed to work well for people. However, others used heat shrink tubing not silicone tape like I did. The tape has held up well for a few weeks now, and when I see any sort of twisting it’s really easy to undo as with the sleeving the cable just sort of pushes itself around instead of gathering kinks.
Can't see why not. I've used heat shrink on all sorts of electrical wires. Might make them noticeably stiffer and harder to maneuver though depending on the quality/thickness of the heat shrink.
Could try this too
Or this