Maybe this is a dumb question:
Is fiber optic cable more brittle in the cold? I was attempting to do a
mechanical splice in an interconnect box on a cable between a heated
building and an unheated barn. In the heated building I didn't have
much problem. In the cold barn (single digits Fahrenheit) I kept
snapping the glass when stripping it and broke it off inside the
mechanical splice more than once. I also noticed the 250um acrylic
coating seemed to stick to the 900um tight buffer, so when I stripped
the tight buffer the acrylic would come with it....I never saw that
before. Is this just because it's cold? It was also dark and I was
working in space where I'm wedged between a Brush Hog and the wall. I
also might just suck at it.
