We take the time to reverse coil and double heat-treat each and every coil we produce. We do that to ensure the tightest most resilient coils possible.

We fully expect our coils to stand up to daily use, and you should too. While beautiful works of art, you should also feel free to drag and reposition your cables around your desktop as much as you like … it won’t hurt them at all.

We recommend that while enjoying your coils, don’t excessively pull on them, or stretch them to see “just how springy they are”. While the coiling process is specifically designed to resist the wear and tear of daily use, intentionally expanding the coil could cause damage to the their natural tendency to spring back into shape.

All our detachables are designed to be attached and detached as many times as you’d like for the life of the cable. We’ve been using most of our detachables in our own workshop for years without any degredation in connectivity or quality.

Each detachable has a prescribed way of socketing, locking, and detaching each of the two halves from one another. As long as you take care to properly attach and detach the housings there’s no reason for the cable to fail.

Detachables are never to be rotated or spun along the axis that runs through the center of the wire (if you’re looking at the end of it head on). A general rule of thumb is … if it feels like you’re getting some resistance … time to stop :) .

Aviators

For Aviator detachables, make sure you are unscrewing and tightening the slip collar and not twisting on either end of the connector itself.

YC8

For YC8 connectors, one half of the coupling housing is intended to spin and rotate freely while the other side is intended to remain stationary.

As with all detachables, they should never be rotated around the sleeved cabling.

Lemo / Weipu

Like the other detachables on this list, neither half of the connector are intended to spin freely around the core of the wire.

To detach, pull back on the ridged collar and pull the two halves apart.

To socket, simply align the alignment markers and push the two halves of the connector housings together till you feel that extra satisfying -click-.

As with most custom cables, our USB connectors are covered with a rubbery plastic coating called Heatshrink. For both ShrinkFlex and MDPC-X brand heatshrink, the care instructions are the same.

The shrink is heated and then cooled completely to allow our terminations the highest amount of time to create proper tension between the sleeving, the connector, and the heatshrink itself.

With all that being said, heatshrink won’t be able to withstand the pressure of rotational pressure around the core of the wire (similar to our detachables).

When plugging or unplugging your cable to your device, ensure you are supporting the heatshrink and the connector by grabbing the end of your cable at the point where the heatshrink and cable are overlapping, and not the USB terminal. Excessive twisting on the USB terminal without supporting the cable wire as well could result in the heatshrink connection detaching from the wire and then allow for unecessary torsion on the USB connection in the future.