I wrote the article in the rag you referenced. Tanglefoot is castor oil based, smellysnasty, and can be cleaned off with mineral spirits. Which also smells nasty. Kirk is right, it is a good wife repellant, but maybe he would have better luck if he would not put it in his beard! it sticks to your legs, forearms, etc. use mineral spirits unless you have adhered covering such as icarex with 3m77, which will dissolve as the mineral sprits soaks thru the covering. The other stuff is bird repellent, made by JT Eaton company, I have not found it locally but i have ordered it from www.truevalue.com. this stuff comes in a caulk gun-like tube. Tanglefoot is good and tacky in temps up to about 85-90 degrees, then it starts getting thin. Bird repellent is stiff until it starts getting warm, then it sticks like a booger. so we use tanglefoot on cooler days, bird repellant on warm days. bird repellant is dissolved with vegetable oil- wipe it on, and the stuff thins out and wipes off. I keep a bottle of veg oil for cleaning up the big deposits before i put the planes in the car, becasue i got sick of having bird repellant all over my car's interior. I use the syringe method for applying Tanglefoot, but i saw Kirk trowelling it on right out of the tub and that works well too. All you need is a broken prop, those can be real hard to find at a combat meet!