[rescue] fiber goodness

[Dave McGuire]

On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 12:32 PM, Kris Kirby wrote:
>>    Those connectors usually can't be disassembled.
>
> No, like putting SC ends into the MIC connector on the device..

   Oh that.  There's almost no chance of that working...alignment is 
fairly critical there.  Shouldn't hurt to give it a try, though.

>>    Proper cables, though, with any connectors commonly used for FDDI
>> (MIC, SC, and ST) are always on eBay for cheap, though.  Don't fuck
>> with it...just get the right cables.  Fiber is a pain in the ass to
>> deal with yourself unless you have a good termination kit, which
>> usually cost thousands of dollars.
>
> Yeah, but I'm shy a MIC <-> MIC at the moment.

   :-(

     -Dave

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