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Communicate along the path of installation.Monitoring the supply reel during installation is necessary to prevent violation of minimum bend radius. Pushing can result in violation of the bend radius.

The plan should include equipment and supplies, fiber cable specification, location of equipment, testing requirements, data forms for testing, personnel experience level and assignment, installation methods, identification of potential problem areas, safety issues, etc. You can eliminate 95% of the problems installers can encounter by simply creating this plan. Create a detailed, written plan of installation. Innerduct provides a good way to identify fiber optic cable and protect it from damage, generally a result of someone cutting it by mistake! You can get the innerduct with pulling tape already installed.

Indoor cables can be installed directly, but you might consider putting them inside innerduct.

Fiber splicing make things complicated and expensive.

Make sure your fiber cable is long enough for the run.

Putting a twist in the cable can stress the fibers too. This will put a twist in the cable for every turn on the spool! Never twist the fiber cable.

Always roll the cable off the spool instead of spinning it off the spool end.

These will harm the fibers, maybe immediately, maybe not for a few years, but you will harm them and the cable must be removed and thrown away! Fiber is stronger than steel when you pull it straight, but it breaks easily when bent too tightly. Know and observe the maximum recommended load rating of the cable. If possible, use an automated puller with tension control or at least a breakaway pulling eye.

On really long runs, pull from the middle out to both ends. On long runs, use proper lubricants and make sure they are compatible with the cable jacket.

Never exceed the maximum pulling load rating.

You should pull on the fiber cable strength members only! Fiber optic cables have Kevlar aramid yarn or a fiberglass rod as their strength member.

Never directly pull on the fiber itself.

It was the first time the NBA sent its players to an Olympics, and the game was forever changed. That said, anything involving that team, and those Olympics, has obvious historical value. The jacket and Jordan’s reluctance to wear it was a big story in Barcelona and became a talking point again when “The Last Dance” documentary re-told part of the story with sound from Jordan in 1992 revealing his frustration with the situation. McIntyre kept it the last 29 years, wearing it occasionally. Instead, Jordan signed it: “To Brian, Thanks for Everything, Michael Jordan.”

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He brought the jacket - which has a patch that reads “Reebok is proud to honor America's finest” - to Jordan at an event when the NBA legend was shifting to baseball in 1994, thinking Jordan would ask for it back. “He said, ‘I certainly don’t want it,’” McIntyre said. For the ceremony where the Americans got their gold medals, he draped an American flag over his shoulder to hide the Reebok logo.Īnd when Jordan came off the medal stand, he took off the jacket and tossed it aside, then gifted it to McIntyre.

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Olympic Committee had sent word that Jordan would have to wear the full athlete uniform on the medal stand, and Jordan complied - with one adjustment. That’s why McIntyre was in Barcelona working with the players. Part of his job, outside of overseeing public relations at all the major NBA events, was to help at other major events with NBA players - including the world championships and the Olympics. He joined the league’s communications department in 1981 and stepped aside into an advisory role for then-Commissioner David Stern in 2010. McIntyre was with the Dream Team in Barcelona through his role with the NBA. Jordan is aware of the decision to auction the jacket, McIntyre said. “And it’s easier to do this than it is to leave things for my kids.” “I’ve enjoyed it and it’s just the right time to do this,” McIntyre said. Sotheby’s, which has the offering that will run through June 28, estimates that the jacket could fetch anywhere from $1 million to $3 million. The red, white and blue Reebok jacket that Jordan - a Nike athlete - was forced to wear on the medal stand alongside the other members of USA Basketball’s first “Dream Team” at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics is headed to auction.