tylert14

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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?

slownova73

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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

tylert14

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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

jmd

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

slownova73

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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.

98camarols1

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

Old Geezer

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

1LOMARO

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.