[158040] in North American Network Operators' Group
fiber termination tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Tue Nov 20 01:25:35 2012
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:25:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We've always done our own fiber termination in-house using Corning Unicam
(currently Unicam Pretium) tool kits and ends. Over the years I've
dealt with fiber (primarily 62.5um mm FDDI), I've noticed that fiber seems
to come in two "styles". Some lets me strip the buffer and coating easily
in separate steps using the buffer/coating dual-notch mechanical stripper
from our Corning tool kit. Some, it seems the buffer and coating are
fused and the coating comes off with the buffer, but because both are
being stripped at the same time, much more pulling force is needed, and
the buffer/coating has to be removed in small steps or the fiber breaks :(
First, I wonder if anyone knows why this is? Second, I wonder if a
thermal stripper would help and is preferable to a strictly mechanical
stripper?
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