The steps:
1. Cut your speaker wire to proper length, making sure you leave yourself a little extra slack; I did an average of 25% of what I measured. Do not strip the wire jacket, yet, as it will be more difficult to feed the cable through the sleeve.
2. Feed the cable through the techflex sleeve. Do
not cut the sleeve to the length of the wire, until you are done feeding the cable through the sleeve, as the length of the sleeve will change depending on the thickness of the cable you'll be using.
3. Once you get the sleeve over the cable, it's time to trim off excess techflex sleeve.
4. Take a small metal knife that you don't care about and get it hot. Be careful, it will be hot!!!
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5. Right away, cut off the excess sleeve, slightly melting the ends of the sleeving. You may want to practice this a little to get a nice, clean cut. You should end up with something that looks like this:
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6. Give yourself some room for error; it's better to cut it twice or three times, than end up with sleeving that is too short. Once you have the sleeve nice and tight around the cable and cut to size, this is what you should end up with on both ends of the cable:
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7. Strip off the black jacket to get it ready for the pants, making sure you leave the jacket about 0.25" longer then the sleeving, which will get a little longer once you start putting the pants on.
8. Putting the pants on is a major biatch and a half, but this simple trick will make it super easy. Spread a drop of water on the wire insulation and slip it on. Don't dip it in water; in this particular case "the wetter, the better" rule does not apply. Also, if you bend the individual "legs" outwards a little, they slide right into their designated pant-leg. You should end up with something like this:
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9. Now, that you cables are nicely dressed, take apart your banana plugs. I'm using a 10awg wire, which is fairly fat, so I will not be using silver covers provided with the banana plugs, as the screws are sticking out too far.
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10. Depending on how many cables you've dressed up, go ahead and take a break
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