Jonard Tools this month announced an expansion its fiber-optic tools offering with the addition of two new tool kits.
Jonard's TK-355 Fiber Stripper & Kevlar Shears Kit w/ Leather Pouch pairs the manufacturer's best-selling JIC-186 Wire & Kevlar Cutting Shears with its JIC-375 Three Hole Fiber Optic Stripper in a convenient leather pouch.
The TK-355 Fiber Stripper & Kevlar Shears Kit is billed as "the essential tool kit for any fiber technician."
The kit's JIC-186 shears are designed for cutting Kevlar, cabling insulation, tape, cable ties, and other materials with ease. For its part, the included JIC-375 stripper tool strips the 1.6 mm-3 mm fiber jackets, 600-900 micron buffer coatings, and 250 micron coatings to expose 125 micron glass fiber.
The TK-355 kit's comfortable leather, 2-pocket tool pouch (Jonard model H-45) keeps tools safe and secure, and easily attaches to any belt up to 2" wide.
Also this month, Jonard introduced its TK-108 Fiber Optic Mid Span Slit & Ring Tool Kit (1.2 mm-18.2 mm). The TK-108 kit provides an array of tools designed to provide easy access into fiber-optic cables and buffer tubes via midspan slitting and ringing procedures.
The kit includes the following Jonard products:
- CSR-1575 - Cable Slit & Ring Tool
- FOD-2000 - Fiber Optic Drop Cable Slitter
- MS-326 - Mid Span Slit & Ring Tool (5 mm-10 mm)
- MS-306 - Mid Span Slit & Ring Tool (1.2 mm-3.3 mm)
- MS-316 - Mid Span Slit & Ring Tool (2.9 mm-6.8 mm)
- MS-336 - Mid Span Slit & Ring Tool (7.9 mm-11 mm)
- MS-426 - Mid Span Slit & Ring Tool (5.8 mm-12 mm)
- MS-526 - Mid Span Slit & Ring Tool (9.8 mm-18.2 mm)
- H-20 - Rugged Carrying Case