If you are going to have a ribbon splicer, you will want a ribbonizer so you can make loose fiber into a ribbon. Super glue works just as good as the fancy ribbonizing glue. I have a hard time getting all 12 fibers to burn clean. I probably have to redo a ribbon splice 3 times on average to get them all to look good.
As far as a patch panel with a long tail, we had a guy coming to do a rebuild of a collapsed lean to roof that covered a back up generator at the back of the C.O. This was in Rico Colorado and they had had 5 feet of snow that winter and the lean to was poorly constructed. It crushed the generator. So replacing the generator and the roof. The guys installing the new roof drilled a pier hole right through the patch panel entrance cable… Wound it up good. Bent the back of the patch panel. We were able to pull back enough to do a splice case on the wall. Call before you dig guys…. Even in the back yard of a telco. From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Friday, August 1, 2025 7:10 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 12-count ribbon splicing - how hard is it? If you want to ribbon splice, you need a ribbon splicer. If it's 288+ you probably want to buy one. If you're limited on tray space you'll need to buy one. If you just want to loose tube splice it, you can pinch the ribbon on the sides and the glue breaks apart. This gives you the 12 fibers. If you get down to 2 of them and it won't break, use a box cutter blade or whatever is sharp. There's not really any training but there's a LOT of practice especially in a ring cut with ribbon. On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM castarritt <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: You can strip off the ribbon sheathing and inside it's just 12x normal 250um fibers that can be spliced individually. On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM Dev <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: One of the big prime’s subs just left probably 10K feet of fiber on spools with the city, who is giving it to us (must be nice to waste the prime’s money) after it was abandoned for six months, but it’s (almost) all 12-count flat stacks of ribbons. We just have the regular fusion splicer, what are we getting into? Do we have to buy a splicer that costs as much as a Hyundai, and getting training from rare Tibetan Monks to be able to use it? -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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