So I've had an oil skin (drizza bone ) for about 6 yrs and the waterproof characteristics were less than impressive. If you just stood in the rain you were wet within 15 minutes.

I went onto the Drizza bone web site and found that they sell a re proofing kit. The wash is specific to wool and wax cotton. The tin of oil/wax is to apply after its been washed/dried. The whole kit cost $39.90 delivered to the door. See image below.

So I followed the instructions and washed, dried and applied the wax/oil as instructed.

It is a pain as the oil/wax is very thick and needs to be melted in a double boiler. I used one of those cheap gas camping cookers so I could do it all outside. I applied with a cheap paint brush and left the jacket out in the sun to soak in.

As sun in Vic is a little hard to find this time of year that was a failure and the jacket was still sticky with the product as it had not soaked into the material.

Then I read about using the hair dryer to help heat the oil/wax once applied to the material. Since hair dryers are for pussy's I used the heat gun.

Well that worked a treat. the Wax soaked into the material really quickly and now the jacket is waterproof again (found that out last weekend coming back from a ride.

So now she resides back on the bars and is ready for the unexpected.

Regards

Thanks for the review Russ, I just bought a Drizabone 2 days ago, did you go the 3/4? or the short? Like your idea of attaching it to your bike.

Good write up there.

I am looking at a new driza-bone and wondered about how to keep it well maintained.

Cheers.

Might try that one .mines been in the shed since the Broncs Rabitohs match in perth last year .Drizabone no way they lied 2 dry patches one on each shoulder.