That includes splicers, as the human splicers, too. From: Carlos Alcantar Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 12:56 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] is fiber more brittle in cold?
Also remember the splicers them selfs may not operate the same at lower temperatures, we have notices a bit more bad splices in the cold. Carlos Alcantar Race Communications / Race Team Member 1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010 Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com From: Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> Reply-To: "af@afmug.com" <af@afmug.com> Date: Monday, January 26, 2015 at 10:26 AM To: "af@afmug.com" <af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] is fiber more brittle in cold? BTW:ï¿1Ž2 What finally worked for me in this guy's barn was warming up the strand for a few seconds with a heat gun.ï¿1Ž2 Then strip, clean, and cleave as quick as I could.ï¿1Ž2 Suddenly everything worked. Double yes. My guys always heat the enclosures up in the trailer before splicing. ï¿1Ž2Leave it alone it will never break, clean it and strip it cold your in trouble. ï¿1Ž2 On Jan 22, 2015, at 7:53 PM, Jason McKemie <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> wrote: Maybe this is a dumb question: Is fiber optic cable more brittle in the cold?ï¿1Ž2 I was attempting to do a mechanical splice in an interconnect box on a cable between a heated building and an unheated barn.ï¿1Ž2 In the heated building I didn't have much problem.ï¿1Ž2 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.ï¿1Ž2 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.ï¿1Ž2 Is this just because it's cold?ï¿1Ž2 It was also dark and I was working in space where I'm wedged between a Brush Hog and the wall.ï¿1Ž2 I also might just suck at it.
