Ultimate Backpack Fiber Prep Kit (TK-199B)

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The Jonard Tools TK-199B is the largest of the backpack fiber kits: twenty-seven tools for opening, slitting, ringing, stripping, cutting, cleaning, and fault-finding on fiber optic cable, carried in a padded technician's backpack with both hands free for the ladder or the manhole lid. The cable access side is the widest in the range. Five mid-span slit and ring tools cover 1.2 to 18.2 mm, a cable slit and ring tool and a round cable strip and ring tool handle jackets, a buffer tube ringer takes tubes to 6 mm, a drop cable slitter opens FTTH drops, a ratcheting slitter and a riser slitting tool take the heavy jackets, the CableSaber makes the long slit down a sheath, and two duct cutters open microduct and large fiber duct. The three-hole fiber stripper takes the jacket, buffer, and coating down to the 125 µm glass, Kevlar shears cut the strength member, and a high-leverage cable cutter, diagonal cutters, long nose pliers, a splicing knife, a 10 to 22 AWG wire stripper, a coax gripping tool, a multi-bit screwdriver, and a zoom flashlight cover the rest of a closure, a cabinet, or a pedestal. Then the FCC-125 and FCC-250 cleaners clean the connectors and the VFL-300 rugged visual fault locator finds the fault, so the kit goes from an unopened cable to a cleaned, tested connection without opening a second bag.

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-426 (5.8 to 12 mm), MS-526 (9.8 to 18.2 mm), for opening a cable sheath between its ends without touching the fibers inside.
• Jacket, buffer tube, and drop cable access. CSR-1575 cable slit and ring tool; CST-1900 round cable strip and ring tool; BTR-6 buffer tube ringer, for tubes up to 6 mm; FOD-2000 fiber optic drop cable slitter; RCS-30 ratcheting duct and cable slitter; RST-8514 riser slitting tool; AST-200 CableSaber for slitting a sheath lengthwise.
• Duct cutters. MDC-14 microduct tube cutter (up to 14 mm) and MDC-64 large fiber duct cutter (up to 64 mm), for a square cut on the ducts that blown and pushed fiber runs in.
• 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; JIC-63050 high-leverage cable cutter; JIC-2288 8 in high-leverage diagonal cutting pliers; JIC-842 long nose and side cutting pliers; JIC-1022 wire stripper, 10 to 22 AWG; KN-7 ergonomic cable splicing knife.
• Cleaning and testing. FCC-125 fiber connector cleaner for 1.25 mm ferrules (LC, MU) and FCC-250 for 2.5 mm ferrules (SC, ST, FC), on the cable end and inside bulkhead adapters; VFL-300 rugged visual fault locator kit for breaks, tight bends, and poor connections.
• General tools. CG-100 coax cable gripping tool; SD-61 six-in-one multi-bit screwdriver with Phillips and other bits; FL-2000 LED flashlight with zoom lens.
• BP-100 technician's tool bag backpack. Carries the whole kit on your back, with the tools organized and padded on the move.

Where It Fits

It suits outside plant and FTTH technicians who walk to the work and meet every cable diameter from a 2 mm drop to an 18 mm backbone in the same week, blown-fiber and microduct installs where the duct cutters earn their place, splicing crews doing mid-span entries on distribution and loose-tube cable for closures, maintenance teams who need to open a cable, clean the connectors, and find a break on one visit without going back to the van, and a company that wants one backpack per technician covering the whole access, prep, clean, and fault-find sequence from one maker.

Good to Know

This is an access, prep, and cleaning kit, not a termination kit: it gets you from an unopened cable or duct to a stripped fiber and a clean connector, and the cleaver, the fusion splicer or connector kit, and the loss test gear come from elsewhere. 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; 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 and riser tool for jackets the mid-span tools won't bite. Cut microduct square with the duct cutter rather than a knife, since a crushed or angled duct end snags the fiber on the way in. 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. Clean every ferrule before every mating with the push cleaner matched to it, 1.25 mm for LC and MU, 2.5 mm for SC, ST, and FC. The visual fault locator goes on a dark fiber only; never look into its output or into an unterminated fiber while it's on, and remember it finds the gross faults, not the loss, which is a power meter and light source's job. The wire stripper, the cable cutter, and the coax gripper are for the copper in a hybrid cable or a powered cabinet; check for voltage before you open anything that may carry it. The loaded backpack weighs just under 15 lb, which is the point of the straps.

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