[chbot] Willowbank fibre network.

[Jasper Mackenzie]

I have a friend who does splicing as his day job.
Would probably do a good rate for a good project. PM me.

On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 23:51, Peter Ellens <ellensp at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> >> When I chatted to the enable guys they told me that little
> >> splicing/fusing
> >> gizmo they were using cost a few thousand bucks and needed training.
> >> I don't think fibre is exactly a hobby installation.
> > I believe the few $k bucks for the gizmo.
> > I also believe training to be needed, for, uhhmm, not technically minded
> > people, and would expect you could pick it up if someone showed you
> > once.
>
> The gear is quite expensive.
>
> But it is not like there is only one in the country and is 100k like
> when I did this stuff ( mid 1990's ).
>
> As for training...  The Unit I used was very simply to operate, we had
> no training.
>
> You have a display that shows you both ends under very high
> magnification. You use the control panel to align the two ends, one end
> is fixed the other end is movable. You hit the splice button when you
> have it aligned and an electrical arc joins both halves seamlessly.
>
> Has it changed much since then? I am unable to say...
>
>
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