Backpack Fiber Optic Mid Span Slit & Ring Tool Kit (1.2 mm-22.6 mm)+ (TK-107B)

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The Jonard Tools TK-107B is the mid-span slit and ring kit for a technician who walks to the work: the full range of entry tools for fiber cable, carried in a padded technician's backpack with both hands free for the ladder or the manhole lid. Eight mid-span slit and ring tools cover cable from 1.2 to 18.2 mm in overlapping ranges, with an eighth sized for RocketRibbon cable, and each has a line on top that shows where the blade sits so a slit or a ring cut lands where you meant it. Around them are the rest of the access tools: a buffer tube ringer for tubes up to 6 mm, a drop cable slitter, a flat drop toner wire slitter, a round cable strip and ring tool, a ratcheting duct and cable slitter for the heavy sheaths, the CableSaber+ for long slits, a three-hole fiber stripper that takes the jacket, buffer, and coating down to the 125 µm glass, and Kevlar shears for the strength member. Sixteen tools on your back, bought once instead of a drawer of single-use entry tools.

What's in the Kit

• Mid-span slit and ring tools, 1.2 to 18.2 mm. MS-306 (1.2 to 3.3 mm), MS-316 (2.9 to 6.8 mm), MS-326 (5 to 10 mm), MS-336 (7.9 to 11 mm), MS-426 (5.8 to 12 mm), MS-446 (8.7 to 14.6 mm), MS-526 (9.8 to 18.2 mm). Each has a blade-position line on top for fast, accurate placement.
• MS-836 mid-span slit and ring tool for RocketRibbon cable. Sized for high-fiber-count ribbon cable.
• Buffer tube and drop cable access. BTR-6 buffer tube ringer, for tubes up to 6 mm; FOD-2000 fiber optic drop cable slitter; WTS-1 flat drop toner wire slitter, for separating the toner wire from a flat drop cable.
• Jacket slitting. CST-1900 round cable strip and ring tool; RCS-30 ratcheting duct and cable slitter; AST-210 CableSaber+ for slitting a sheath lengthwise.
• Stripping and cutting. JIC-375 three-hole fiber optic stripper, for the jacket, the buffer coating, and the 250 µm coating down to the 125 µm glass; JIC-186 wire and Kevlar cutting shears for the strength member.
• BP-100 technician's tool bag backpack. Carries the whole kit on your back and keeps the lightweight slitters safe from scratches.

Where It Fits

It suits outside plant splicing crews doing mid-span entries on distribution and loose-tube cable at closures, pedestals, and hand holes, FTTH installers opening round and flat drop cable at the house and the terminal, technicians on high-fiber-count ribbon backbone where the RocketRibbon tool is the one that fits, crews who meet every cable diameter from a 2 mm drop to an 18 mm backbone in the same week and are rarely near the van, and a company outfitting field technicians with one backpack that opens any fiber cable on the job.

Good to Know

Pick the slit and ring tool by the cable's outside diameter, and when a cable falls in the overlap between two ranges, use the one where it sits nearer the middle of the range; the tool holds the cable better and the blade depth is more predictable. The MS-836 is for RocketRibbon cable specifically; a ribbon cable from another maker may or may not fit it, so check the diameter against the sized tools first. Set the depth on a scrap before the first live cut on a cable you haven't opened before, since the aim is to cut the sheath and nothing underneath. For a mid-span entry, make the two ring cuts first, then the lengthwise slit between them, and peel the sheath in sections; the CableSaber+ is for the long slit on a heavy sheath, and the ratcheting slitter for duct and jackets the mid-span tools won't bite. On a flat drop cable, the toner wire slitter separates the toner wire from the cable without nicking the fiber channel, which a knife tends to do. Ring a buffer tube with the BTR-6 and flex it to snap the tube rather than cutting through, which keeps the blade off the fibers. The three-hole stripper takes the fiber down in stages, jacket, buffer, coating, with the coating off in short pulls so the glass isn't scored, and Kevlar goes to the shears. None of these tools cleave, clean, or test, which is what a prep kit like the TK-151 adds, and none of them are rated for cutting into a cable that may carry power, so confirm what's in a hybrid cable before you open it. The loaded backpack weighs about 10 lb.

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