Tonearm Rewire - Discovery vs VDH

Frogman, very interesting post! Thank you.
I have been struggling with the same idea of eliminating
(at least one of the) RCA-RCA joints: I'm thinking
of rewiring my SME3012R with AN wire ommiting the SME
RCA base, leaving a +/- 1m continous run of the cable from the arm's cart socket, terminated with an RCA at the input of my DIY EAR834 (I'd like to keep at least some flexibility and not solder the wire directly to the SUT).

The problem I have is how to properly make the cable from the tonearm base on. There are 2 problems I see:

1) The wire is super thin, how to make the cable robust enough having good electrical parameters? What I'm thinking is as follows:

AN twisted pair -> 16ga teflon tubing -> PTFE foam sealant tape 5mm thick to add space -> heavy copper braid as the screen -> shrink tubing terminated with Vampire 800C RCA

2) How to fix the cable at the toneram base so that cable manipulations will not affect the thin AN wire (some soert of strain release)?

I'm curious of your thoughts. Did you also wire your EAR input and SUT's with the AN wire?

Hey Frogman! Thank you for your reply. One correction: I wanted to use 5mm PTFE foam tape around the whole cable.
I'd ike to have some "high quality distance" between the teflon tubing with the AN wire and the braid. In other words, I'd prefer not to put the braid directly outside the teflon tubing carrying the wire. The reason is to minimize with a the capacitative coupling between the wires and the shield. At this level of signals all the dirt from the ground may couple via the shield to the signal.