BTW: What finally worked for me in this guy's barn was warming up the
strand for a few seconds with a heat gun. Then strip, clean, and cleave
as quick as I could. Suddenly everything worked.
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.
