5.Carefully remove buffer/subunit tubes from the 15-foot unsheathed end and place fiber into 3-m radius-control (bend limiting) loose tubing. Use heat-shrink tubing to hold loose tubing to sheathed end of feeder cable.

6.Measure diameter of cables and remove and discard that much from the interior of the ca- ble clamp’s leaf bundle equal to the diameter of the cables. The remaining leaves will be used between the clamp halves and the cable.

Solid Core (Discard)

Bushing Leaf

7.At end of heat-shrink on cable, loosely secure the leaf bundle(s) and clamp halves to the cable(s), as shown in the illustration at the start of this procedure.

8.Place cable entrance dock at bottom of cabinet and slip on cable clamps, as shown on the right.

If you have only one feeder cable to install, you must use the other cable clamp to fill out the slot.

9.Hold down or temporarily fasten dock to cabinet.

10.Remove top cassette holder on splice box, as shown on the right. Save the two nuts

Brackets Will Hold a Pod

of Splice Cassettes to

the Splice Box

11.Place holder on a splice cart or other convenient work surface.

12.Remove and save two screws near center of holder.

13.Remove transparent cover of cassette.

14.Use the two screws to secure the first (bottom most) splice cassette to the brack- et, as shown in the next illustration.

15.Add more cassettes, as shown.

Each plastic cassette has molded in pairs of male and female hinge halves. The female part of the hinge of the top cassette mates with the male part on the cas- sette below. Two collar screws, supplied with each cassette, secure the hinge.

First Cassette

Adding Cassettes

Installing Cassettes

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