My guys got good at using a AFL Fast Connect with a 3mm boot and getting
the distances right to just have the loose tube ending inside the boot.
Sometimes a piece of heatshrink over the end of the boot as well. The loose
tube is fairly rigid but it work OK in our fairly large NIDs .

Now we are using tight buffer flat drop  so it just has 900um right in the
cable. But we also switched to fusion splicing a pigtail at the NID so
don't use a field install connector any more either.

On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 3:43 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm kind of winging it because I haven't found an example to follow.  Is
> there a better way to do this?
>
> That's the orange bare fiber inside 16" of clear 900um furcation tube.
> The connector is an SOC made for 900um cable.  The furcation tube is
> pushed about 3/4" into the end of the buffer tube and then a piece of
> heat shrink ties the pieces of tubing together.
>
> It seems durable enough, but it's a lot of finicky pieces.  Took about
> 10 solid minutes to do this.  I'm sure with practice I can shave that
> down, but it just seems like there has to be an easier way.
>
> In a moment I'll send a pic of why I'm bothering.....
>
> -Adam
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