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I thought the static charge on the fibers might be from the plastic bags we are using, but when I tried to bundles some fibers without putting them in a bag, they still had the static charge pushing them apart. I am wondering if the gloves are part of the problem too.
I thought the static charge on the fibers might be from the plastic bags we are using, but when I tried to bundles some fibers without putting them in a bag, they still had the static charge pushing them apart. I am wondering if the gloves are part of the problem too.
1/18: Ann Marie taught Micah and me about fiber fusing, and Dr. Jones and Jim explained fiber testing. I can unplug the ethernet cable at the corner of the dark box to open it safely.
I cut the ends off some old practice light guides so I could improve my polishing technique. Micah said it would be a good idea to get rid of the flaring or chipped ends to make them more like fibers we would use. The next step was to bundle them. I tried Micah's way of bundling by wrapping strips of paper around the fibers to stack them in layers. I found that method quite difficult, and eventually I resorted to stacking the fibers in the sci-fi bundling tool. Once they were in there, I put a collar around them and got the screws started into their threads. Then with one hand I could hold the fibers in the desired configuration and with the other I could finish tightening the screws in the collar.