Home › Field Essentials

Field Essentials.

For distributors and contractors: the tape, wire, lube, keys, clamps, rods and plugs that finish a waterworks job.

✓ Six product pages         ✓ Item numbers by size

Pick the product.

Six pages, each with item numbers by size.

Also called specialty products and essentials, or extended range products.

Pipe wrapped in white polyethylene film in a trench

Pipe lube and polywrap

Pipe joint lubricant, 2 lb to a 55 gal drum. For polyethylene encasement, ask your regional team.

View Product

Rolls of red and green detectable marking tape

Tracer wire and marking tape

Detectable marking tape in APWA colors, 2 to 12 in. wide, barricade tape, and copper tracer wire in 500 ft rolls.

View Product

Gate valve extension with a centering ring

Valve wrenches and tools

Gate valve keys, curb keys and gate valve extensions, plus valve box pads and valve markers.

View Product

Socket clamp: two steel halves joined by bolts

Socket clamps

Steel socket clamps for underground cast iron and ductile iron water pipe, 3 to 24 in., with or without washers.

View Product

Length of all thread rod

Rod couplings, rods and sleeves

Rod couplings, restraining and all thread rod, hex bolts, nuts, washers, zinc caps and OMNI-SLEEVE hubs.

View Product

DUC-LUG, a ductile iron lug

DUC-LUG, eye bolts and plugs

DUC-LUG and MJ eye bolts for tie rods, DMPLUG pipe plugs, valve box and meter pit plugs, and valve box alignment devices.

View Product

The rest of the job.

Marking tape and tracer wire over the line, lube on the joints, rod and DUC-LUG for the restraint, plugs in open pipe, keys for the valves.

Spool of yellow copper tracer wire

209 item numbers

On the six pages. The five OMNI-SLEEVE items are on the Import Fittings price list; the rest are priced by request.

24 in.

Socket clamps and DMPLUG pipe plugs run to 24 in. on the price list.

Figures from the Extended Products price catalog (rev. 7/29/26) and the Import Fittings price list (1/5/26).

Spec sheets.

The spec sheets behind these pages.

Detectable and barricade tape

Tape construction, colors and legends. Spec sheet, April 2024

Foam plugs

DMPLUG, valve box plug and meter pit insulation plug. Information sheet, March 2020

Document Covers

Valve wrenches and gate valve extensions

Socket clamp sizes, I.D. and bolts, 3 to 24 in.

HSLA, stainless 304 and 316 threaded rod: grades and properties

Zinc anode caps, 5/8 and 3/4 in.

DUC-LUG material, sizes and installation

MJ eye bolt material and dimensions

DMPLUG sizes and the inside diameters each one fits

Valve box plug

4 mil high density cross-laminated polyethylene: test values and tube sizes

8 mil polyethylene encasement film: material, colors and tube sizes

V-BIO enhanced polyethylene film: properties and tolerances

Pipe joint lubricant: temperature range and properties

PVC pipe wrap tape for corrosion protection

Hydraulic cement plug: mixes and set times

Pricing
By request

Every item on these pages except OMNI-SLEEVE, which is on the Import Fittings price list. Add items to a quote list or ask your regional team

Questions about these products.

Short answers. The product pages have the detail.

By request. Add items to a quote list on any product page, ask your regional team, or call 800.999.2550 with the item numbers. OMNI-SLEEVE is the exception: it is on the Import Fittings price list.

Have the spec in hand?

Your regional team can match these parts to the pipe, fittings and restraints on your job.