A pink hairdryer LMAO - I hope you have a good leather holster for that beast LOL. In the Outback summers you can fry an egg on a rock in Australia, so we always wax our coats in the middle of summer. On stock camps in the old days no one had electricity available, so you had to use the sun. Once a year is plenty if you're using the coat all the time. You leave it out in the sun so the fabric heats up first...hot fabric makes it easier to apply. I make my own waterproofing mix using a block of beeswax, raw linseed oil & turps. It's the same recipe handed down for generations & it was used too for waterproofing the Australian tents etc in WWI.  Your hairdryer tip is a good one if you live in an area where your summers aren't real hot. Australian bushmen in the old days always knew to reproof their oilskin coats every year in mid summer.

Thanks mate. I just bought a Driza Bone today and it might need rewaxing soon.  Useful tip. You're a legend.   Australia.

There's a guy on YouTube who waterproofs sheets, he has the formulae for beeswax plus paraffin oil for water proofing. I made some blocks of his mix and just rubbed the wax block all over and then heated it like in this video, I used an old iron, the absorption was unreal, no oily waxy residue to touch and I not only re proofed my jacket, I waterproofed a normal cotton field jacket and a bunch of old sheets that I use to cover loads, they work better than a woven nylon tarp. Just watch for how to waterproof fabric and he will come up. Great video BTW, heating the wax is key.

It goes to show that if you spend a little extra for proper craftsmanship, things can last a lot longer
Heck, I think I’ll even be able to hand this video down to my kids because of how well it was made. By then I’d have forgotten about the premium I paid for it.
Not like how they make them YouTube videos these days. Lucky to last me six months, at best

Thank you so much for this!  I was lucky enough to find a second hand Driza-bone at the Salvos.  It's in very good condition other than no longer being waterproof.  Thank you from Australia! You're a legend.

Thanks Neal, the hair dryer and cloth idea was brilliant and did such a good job it saved my marriage! Thanks to you mate.

Just picked one up that my wife's dad had since the 80s. Been sitting in the basement since 1997. Dark blue. Very nice jacket. Cant wait

You can also melt the was out of the can, pour it into a mold and make something like a bar of soap. You then apply the bar to the cloth like stick deodorant. Then use the hair drier to melt the wax into the cloth.

Nice tip, cheers from Australia. ☮️

I make my own wax mixture from parafin and mineral oil.

I use clean shop rags to appy the wax and rub it in with heat from a heatgun.

The rags end up wax impregnated so when I'm finished I cut the rags up into 3cm x 3cm pieces and use them as fire starters in the bush. it gets wet here in British Columbia.

Great idea  - thanks, Neal's wife!

Good onya mate. Good ideas.

Thanks mate! This is great

My friend giving me 1 of these coats so your video been very helpful..thank u

Awesome bro.

Add some paraffin oil to the wax, it stops it crazing and helps absorption. Go about 50/50.

7 years ago placed, 24 comments, wow!
Not many Driza-bone's getting used then, huh...


Mine is tearing loose around the press studs on the pockets ..looks like rust, therefore take care of those points as well....

Thank you

Get Daniel San to wax on and wax off the jacket 😂

Hi Neal, greetings from Australia 😁 another suggestion I'd make is to perhaps use the wax solution when it's cool; use a boot polish brush and brush it in like boot polish. Apply a thin(ish) coat of wax solution and then heat it up with the hair dryer so it then absorbs into the fibres. This way you're putting it on, and you won't need to take off the excess.