Gardner Bender 79-003 Wire-Aide Wire Pulling Lubricant, Greaseless Fiber-Optic Wire Insulation, 5 Gal. Pail, Yellow

Previously I used the clear gel pulling lube. If I left the gel on the wire because I couldnt pull wire immediately, the gel would dry out and become useless. In contrast, this wonderful wax pulling lube keeps working for a long time, and seems more slippery in the conduit as well. From now on, I will always use wax pulling lube and throw away the bottle of clear gel.

This goop has just the right level of squirt-ability and makes a tough wire pull much easier. I used it with pulling 5 #12 wires into 1/2 thinwall emt and could not have made it without it. As the label says, it dries to a nearly non existent residue and clean up is very easy. I dropped it everywhere and it does not leave a mark. The bottle is easy to squeeze and I recommend this highly.

I was pulling some additional data cable through a roughly 50% filled conduit with almost the maximum number of bends, and having some real trouble. Pulling with all my strength (and Im far from a little guy) wasnt budging the cable after a couple of tight bends. So I thought Id try this stuff. Holy cow. My tiny wife couldve pulled this, no problem. Ive since used it on wires for real electricity as well as the low volt stuff, and Im not sure how in the heck I got by before. It takes barely any of the stuff to make a night-and-day difference. I usually hate getting stuff on my hands like antifreeze or grease, but this really isnt even terribly annoying - it wipes right off of me and the wire well enough that I dont feel like Im greasing up everything I touch for the rest of the day. If youre pulling wire through bent or populated conduit and are wondering if you need this... Yes, you need it.

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I was able to push 12 feet of thick direct-burial Cat6 cable through a 1/2 flexible PVC conduit using this stuff, by adding a squirt every foot or so. Talcum powder also works, but it is so much messier!

I could see this potentially working well to pull cable through conduit (maybe) as I have used a similar product for that use before....however, I bought it thinking it would solve a similar problem and it didnt. I figured it would work just as well to make grippy/tacky cables such as an iPhone power cable more smooth when going over some surfaces as to not get caught. I figured since it was designed to stay on a cable and keep it smooth, it should do the trick. Well, I used it generously on my OEM iPhone cables and other similar cables (studio headphone cables, XLR microphone cables, etc) with the same problem, to no avail. The compound did not remain on the cable, and also dried and the cables returned to their original sticky/tacky state. I tried multiple coats, still the same results. If it dries and returns to a tacky state so easily, how could it last long enough to pull a larger cable through conduit? Maybe I missed something, but I guess I will have to look elsewhere for now.

Worked great and not harmful to cable jacket.

good product....slick...waxy ...works

Worked great. I have limited strength in my hands, but was able to pull one end as my husband applied the lube and fed it through the other end. No problems with 4 aluminum cables taped together every 3 or so. Conduit 2 underground run was just under 100 ft. Our only problem was that the wire sold to us came up short because the idiot sales person apparently could not measure properly! So, now we have to splice it all to complete the job.

Worked great! Probably only need a tiny bottle! But worth the money!