This is the smallest splice closure I know of:

http://www.preformed.com/index.php?option=com_phocadownload&view=category&download=7:section-4-coyote-dtc-drop-termination-closure&id=10:coyote-fiber-optic-closures&Itemid=139

Sorry for the long link.

On Monday, August 17, 2015, Paul McCall <[email protected]> wrote:

> Since we don’t have fiber splicing experience, I figured I should query
> the crowd.
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> We have a customer with a small tower about 350 feet from their home that
> was installed 6 years ago.  Since electrical had to be run from the home
> out to the tower, they opted to pull fiber (4-stand Multimode) from the
> house to the tower through the same 2” conduit as the electrical.
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> One of the above ground “pull boxes” (12x12x4”) at the house had an extra
> hole in it that they plugged at the time of installation.  Last week they
> discovered that the hole plug had failed (seal problem) and mice/rats had
> gotten in and chewed through the fiber (all 4 strands).  Coming one
> direction there is plenty of extra fiber to pull into the box area to make
> a splice.  In the other direction is only a couple inches of slack so I
> have to go to the next pull spot (a 90 deg. right angle) they need to pull
> a new section of fiber to that spot.  (approximately 30 feet).  I am
> talking to a local contractor about doing the splices for me, and he wasn’t
> sure he had a splice kit that would fit into the 12x12x4” box when finished.
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> Is there a simple splice kit (for 4 strands) that can fit inside the box
> that you can recommend?
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> Paul
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> Paul McCall, Pres.
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