Does anyone have many dull spots show up on the CA if waiting overnight? This is one of the reasons I seldom use CA finish.
Not me. I have rarely had a dull spot since I started applying medium or thick CA. I use some "year old" CA too. I used to have dull spots show up regularly. But I also noticed that when it does, and I sand with 600 or 800 sandpaper, small bits of _wood_ sanding dust shows up on the sand paper. And you know what that means - sand through to the wood in a spot. If a pen is .005 OOR, sand through can occur easily. With CA soaked into the wood, it will appear shiny for while.
The number of people who say that their OOR went away with the mandrelless / no mandrell usage attests to the fact of how much OOR there is. And OOR causes small patches of CA to be sanded away to the point of it showing up as dull while the turner will swear that it is not sanded through.
One other thing that will cause dull spots: If CA is not totally level or smooth and sanding is needed to bring it down, and it is not 1000% smooth from end to end, a little sanding dust that is left behind in un-smooth swirls - that dust can be covered over by the next layer of CA and cloudy spots will occur. I have done this a few times, but out of habit now, I wipe the pen
clean after each sanding.
This might not address your problem exactly but is the two that I had early on. I haven't had a dull spot in over a year since I started doing the mandrel-less method.