Ergonomic Fiber Optic Stripper - 250 micron (JIC-175)

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The last strip before a splice or a connector is the one that matters, and the Jonard Tools JIC-175 does only that job: it strips the 250 µm buffer coating off a fiber to expose the 125 µm glass, with the blades set at the factory and no adjustment to make or to drift. Close the handles on the coated fiber, draw the tool off the end, and the coating comes away in a clean length without scoring the fiber underneath. The blades are ground and hardened for a long life, and the thermoplastic rubber handles are shaped for a comfortable grip through a day of splicing. It's the stripper in Jonard's fiber prep kits, sold here on its own.

Features

• Strips 250 µm coating to the 125 µm fiber. Sized for the one strip every fusion splice, mechanical splice, and field connector needs, and set to remove the coating without damaging the fiber.
• Factory preset, no adjustment. The blade setting is fixed at the factory, so there's nothing to set up, nothing to knock out of calibration, and the same strip every time.
• Ground and hardened blades. Precision ground for a clean cut through the coating and hardened for durability and longer life.
• Ergonomic TPR handles. Thermoplastic rubber grips that are comfortable and easy to use through repeated strips.

Where It Fits

It suits fusion splicing technicians who strip the coating off every fiber before cleaving, FTTH installers fitting field-installable connectors and mechanical splices on drop cable, data center and enterprise crews terminating pigtails and splicing at panels, anyone who wants a dedicated, preset 250 µm stripper beside the three-hole JIC-375 rather than using its smallest hole for everything, and a splice tray or a van kit where the fiber stripper gets used more than any other tool and has to be right every time.

Good to Know

The tool strips the 250 µm coating only; the jacket and the 900 µm tight buffer come off first with a jacket stripper and a buffer stripper, or with the two larger holes of a three-hole stripper, and the JIC-175 takes over for the final strip. Strip in short pulls of an inch or so rather than one long pull, and keep the tool square to the fiber, since twisting or angling the tool is what nicks the glass. A strip that leaves shreds of coating on the fiber means the blades need cleaning, which a fiber wipe and a little alcohol fixes; a strip that breaks the fiber means the tool is being pulled off-axis or the blades have reached the end of their life, since they aren't adjustable. Wipe the bare fiber with an alcohol wipe after stripping and before cleaving, and don't touch the glass once it's clean. The stripped coating and any broken fiber go in a sharps container, not the floor. The blades are preset for 250 µm coating; a tool for 900 µm buffer or for jacket is a different stripper, and the JIC-375 covers all three in one tool if that's the preference.

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