Double yes. My guys always heat the enclosures up in the trailer before splicing. Leave it alone it will never break, clean it and strip it cold your in trouble.
On Jan 22, 2015, at 7:53 PM, Jason McKemie <j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com<mailto:j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com>> wrote: Yeah, it's a bit of a pain to work with in the cold. Since I don't have a splice trailer I usually set up my telco tent and put a propane heater inside to help warm it up a bit before I work with it. On Thursday, January 22, 2015, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com<mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>> wrote: 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.
