Tools & Fabrication - Paint experets... Sprayed some summit hot rod black and it came out glossy not matte

EDIT: Oops spelled experts wrong in the title! If an admin wants to fix it be my guest ha.
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Any ideas? Summit hot rod black is supposed to be a low gloss acrylic urethane paint. Base, acrylic urethane activator, and urethane reducer if necessary.

I mixed 4:1 as instructed, and reduced with middle temp (dont have figures handy) urethane reducer. I literally added a "splash" of reducer as it was just a little thick for my 1.4 tip.

Temp was low 70s. Humidity probably in the 70% range.

Paint has cured for a day now. Feels hard to the touch, one problem though... It's about as glossy as it gets!!

Any ideas why this happened? I searched google and found no similar stories. Too high of humidity? Could the reducer have caused this?

Luckily I don't really care if these parts came out glossy, but this was my "test" for this paint and I'm disappointed as I have some items I would actually like to come out low gloss!


And lastly, does anyone have a non lacquer matte or semi matte single stage alternative?

its a possibility the reducer could have something to do with it. we spray a nice matte black at work, one day we had a few dry and look glossy, turns out we had a bad batch of paint from the manufacturer, so could be bad paint, wrong/bad/too much/too little reducer, a few factors could be the cause.

Try experimenting on something small, to test with, try different amounts of reducer, if you have enough to waste. my .02

its a possibility the reducer could have something to do with it. we spray a nice matte black at work, one day we had a few dry and look glossy, turns out we had a bad batch of paint from the manufacturer, so could be bad paint, wrong/bad/too much/too little reducer, a few factors could be the cause.

Try experimenting on something small, to test with, try different amounts of reducer, if you have enough to waste. my .02


Yeah I think I'm just going spray some on a nice non humid day, unreduced, with a 2.0 tip. If that turns out glossy I'll be contacting summit for a replacement! I'm thinking this is just normal gloss black with a hot rod black label. When i say its glossy, I mean its GLOSSY. lol

do the instructions mention anything about adjustment via a flattening agent?

Yeah I think I'm just going spray some on a nice non humid day, unreduced, with a 2.0 tip. If that turns out glossy I'll be contacting summit for a replacement! I'm thinking this is just normal gloss black with a hot rod black label. When i say its glossy, I mean its GLOSSY. lol

I meant to say flatener instead of reducer. Did it come with a flatening agent? May e u should call summit and see ic ghey have some that will work with that paint.

try the sems hot rod black paint.easy to use and mix

Wrong paint in the can, right label?? Summit shows both are available.

I had the same issue when I painted mine Hot Rod Flatz Silver Sled Metallic... hood came out darker and had a gloss.... I finally figured out that I had not shook the can enough to get everything on the bottom mixed in correctly. Hope that helps.