MARCH 10, 2009 -- Ripley (search Lightwave for Ripley) has added the MSAT Mid-Span Access Tool to its Miller brand of products. This tool is designed to enable easy access to fibers in buffer tubes.

Features and benefits include:

• quickly and easily access fibers in 2, 2.5, and 3-mm buffer tubes in a mid-span location without fiber damage
  
• all blades precisely factory mounted in tube slitting channels with no adjustment required by the installer
  
• tool design incorporates buffer tube size gages on the tool body for ease of selecting proper tube slitting channel
  
• spring loaded lever opens and closes the tool and lever becomes flush with the top of the tool body when closed.
  

• 2.0 mm: 1.8-2.2 mm (0.071"- 0.086")
  
• 2.5 mm: 2.3-2.8 mm (0.090"-0.110")
  
• 3.0 mm: 2.8-3.2 mm (0.110"- 0.126").
  

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