<div dir="ltr">"Clean all new fibres when they come out of the bag. You can’t be sure they are clean."<div><br></div><div>...for reals?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:16 AM, Kim Pearce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kim.pearce@gmail.com" target="_blank">kim.pearce@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Nice write up thanks for sharing James - some pretty cool micrograph pics. And great advice about keeping fibre out from underneath rolling office chairs.<div><br></div><div>I do disagree with some points though:</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sold on the idea of cleaning transceivers or female receptacles as a matter of practice though, if a transceiver is suspect surely you'd just swap it out... right? The recommendations to use cotton swabs seems a bit off - lint and threads can't be good.</div><div><br></div><div>Me? I'll just be sure to keep things clean and cap unused transceivers and connectors - test runs for light loss <a href="http://www.flukenetworks.com/Expertise/Learn-About/Fiber-Testing" target="_blank">http://www.flukenetworks.<wbr>com/Expertise/Learn-About/<wbr>Fiber-Testing</a> and if testing indicates I should try to clean, I'll follow the FOAs advice <a href="http://www.thefoa.org/tech/ref/termination/cleaning.html" target="_blank">http://www.thefoa.org/tech/<wbr>ref/termination/cleaning.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>After all, the FOA has certified over *9000* techs and have nice and crunchy jpegs on their website.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 9:13 PM, James Braunegg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.braunegg@micron21.com" target="_blank">james.braunegg@micron21.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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