California Car Duster - Won't Dry Out?!

[GoZoner]

My 'California Car Duster' (plastic handle, large) is going on 5 days of dry out time and is still 'oily'. Is this normal?

I used it w/o any drying out and mucked up my car's roof. Then I read this forum and figured 1-2 days would work. Tried it again on my car's rear window - mucked that up. Now I'm going on 5 days and the duster still smells. I think it smells like gasoline; my wife thinks it smells like wax - my guess is that smelling like wax is normal but I swear it is gas.

[davey g-force]

Re: California Car Duster - Won't Dry Out?!

It's normal for the parrafin wax in the duster to have a petroleum-type smell to it.

I'd say yours is done drying out and you just need to use it now to dry it out some more.
When first using mine, I just accepted the streaks and QD'd afterwards to remove them. Now it hardly streaks at all, though I still always follow it up with a QD.

How are you drying it out? On newspaper?

[Fly Bye]

Re: California Car Duster - Won't Dry Out?!


It's Paraffin wax. Did you set the CA duster on newspaper?

[J. A. Michaels]

Re: California Car Duster - Won't Dry Out?!

It has the paraffin wax in it. You should be fine. Go ahead and try it.