Owners Manual

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Maintenance of splice quality
5.1 Cleaning and Inspection before splice
5.1.1 V-Groove cleaning
When the inside of V-Groove is contaminated, splice quality may deteriorate. Thus, it
is important to regularly inspect and frequently clean the V-Groove as follows.
i. Open the wind cover.
ii. Clean the V-Groove using a cotton swab moisten by alcohol and any proper
cleaning agents. Remove the remaining alcohol from the V-Groove using a
clean and lint free dry cotton swab.
iii. When a foreign substance is not removed with cotton swab, clean it with the
tip of a cleaved fiber and then repeat the step above.