Can't throw me off the scent

qaz

Maybe they're harder to resell illegally

Synapse

It's very valuable as a cable, but as material, it's worthless. Pull on it to hard, give it a rough bend, cute it anywhere, and it isn't a cable anymore.

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Copper cables are easier to reuse or sell as scrap due to the intrinsic value of the metal value and simple structure. Fiber optic cables are harder to reuse because they require precise handling, expensive connectors, and special training and equipment to splice together properly. Unless thieves steal pre-terminated fiber and handle it with extreme care or take entire spools with a buyer ready, fiber is essentially worthless to them since it can't be melted down and reused like copper.

JokeDeity

Now I'm curious, how DO they cut it to size?

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They just cut it roughly, strip back the protective layers, then do a very precise and clean cut on the actual fibre and polish the end.
Most of the time it will get spliced into a patch panel (instead of being installed into the patch panel). At which point the cleanly cut fibre is precisely aligned with the fibre from the patch panel, then melted together.
It's very precise. Splicing tools often use extremely high magnification, and very precise actuators to align the 2 fibre ends before they are fused

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Cutting it is the easy part, splicing them back together is the real trick.

Fusion splicing - Wikipedia

(en.m.wikipedia.org)

JokeDeity

Cool, always wondered how they fixed our Internet line with it being fiberoptic.

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Yeah but the tracer wire

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cute it anywhere

Resist the urge to put kitty stickers on fiber optic cables. Got it.

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The unit is Tesla. For reference, the earths magnetic field is around 50 nT on the surface (depending on latitude), and MRI machines have 1.5 T or 3 T. So your 10¹⁰ T might just nail you to the earths Iron core

Scott

Some very expensive tools for termination and splicing

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That assumes you can sell it. Chances are it will be worthless once you remove it.

Lemminary

Nail me harder down to the core, magnet daddy.

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If it's a break in the middle of the fibre, then they will use an epoxy housing for the splice.
I don't know the specifics, but something like this:
Cut/clean up the break, put through an epoxy housing and tighten the cable grips. Strip back the protective layers, clean cut the fibres and splice them all appropriately. Carefully stuff it inside the epoxy housing, fill with epoxy and let it set. Then burry/rig it again.
Those are what the large plastic cylinder things you see on cables are.
Similar housings are used for splicing copper (both data and high voltage) cables that have to withstand elements/burying, just the size (and possibly internals, epoxy type etc) change.
Black plastic cylinder that's larger than the cable, with a couple cables coming out? Probably a splice point

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Shut up Gadjo

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I want like 1 ft of carrier bundle fiber optic, because I think it's cool as shit.

Every time I see one of the spools I want to go up and hack a foot off of it but I wouldn't want to come off as a tweaker.

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"Come out, copper, I know you're in there!"

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Given that even 3 T is already considered a large amount of flux, would it be even possible for an object with 10 billion Tesla to even exist? And if so, what would it take to achieve that amount of flux? Does a neutron star or a pulsar* get even remotely close?

* - pulling these examples kinda out of my ass – while i'm sure neutron stars have extreme magnetic fields i'm not so sure about pulsars

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I'm NOT a fucking METHHEAD!

...I'm a crackhead. Get it right!

lazynooblet

They are starting to rip out the cables used in car chargers. It's only 2m long, costs £300 to replace and the thief strips out £4 worth of copper.