I used it back in my factory welding days. It would come in a concentrate and was water based. Very sticky stuff. We would clean up the layout tables with grinders and brush on the anti-spatter sticky stuff with a paint brush to protect the tables from spatter accumulation. We were using GMAW with .045 wire way back then. Jet rod (E7024) has almost zero spatter. Can't imagine why they'd be using it for jet rod.