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 <[email protected]> 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. > > >
