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2Busy · 11-24-2004, 04:51 AM

I work in the wholesale electrical parts trade. About 10 years we sold some kind of goop in a tube that the name escapes me. At any rate, you put in in conduit with wire. If moisture started coming up the conduit, this stuff would actually migrate towards the moisture and end up encapsualting it. Supposed to key moisture out of junction boxes outside etc. They demonstrated this stuff with 3/4 inch id acrylic tube with wires in it. They would set one end down in a glass of water for a minute or so and take it out and lay it horizontal. It moved too slow to see it happen, but if you marked where the gel was in the tube and then went back in an hour, you could readily see it had moved towards the wet end.

11-24-2004, 04:51 AM	#7
2Busy Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 62	I work in the wholesale electrical parts trade. About 10 years we sold some kind of goop in a tube that the name escapes me. At any rate, you put in in conduit with wire. If moisture started coming up the conduit, this stuff would actually migrate towards the moisture and end up encapsualting it. Supposed to key moisture out of junction boxes outside etc. They demonstrated this stuff with 3/4 inch id acrylic tube with wires in it. They would set one end down in a glass of water for a minute or so and take it out and lay it horizontal. It moved too slow to see it happen, but if you marked where the gel was in the tube and then went back in an hour, you could readily see it had moved towards the wet end.