Gloss-Coat Smeary?

[Setec Astronomy]

I've used a fair amount of OC 2.0, and a syringe or two of Opti-Lens, so I'm familiar with the difference between those two, where OC 2.0 flashes pretty fast and clean, while Opti-Lens is much slower and tends to lay out more, if you will.

I have a syringe of Gloss-Coat that I bought when it first came out.  I only remember using it once on a trunk lid.  This morning I was trying to do a quick-and-dirty coating on the front of a car in my garage, where the lighting wasn't too good, and it was a bit humid.  Temp was...pretty moderate.  This front end had all different kinds of materials, paint, matte black, piano black, some (I guess) painted charcoal surrounds, brushed-aluminum-looking trim, clear plastic over emblems, etc.  Oh, I also did the side mirrors, which had some textured black trim.

I found the Gloss-Coat to be very smeary and difficult to work with--is this normal?  Not sure if it's normal, whether it's too old (it was not gelled at all), whether I didn't have a clean enough surface, put too much on, it was too humid...any ideas?  Gloss-Coat is supposed to be easy to use--is the flash time really long  and I just didn't wait long enough?

[bcwang]

I find gloss coat very easy to use and not smeary.  Seems you can over apply it but if you wipe off when 80% has flashed off or within the time allotted on the tube (whichever is shorter), it still turns out pristine. 

I think if you don't think the surface was that clean, that may be the culprit.  I'm sure you know for a coating you'll want a very clean surface to apply to.  If you get some oil or some other chemical on the applicator you'll just be smearing it around with the coating causing a smeary mess. 

[Ron@Optimum]

If the Gloss-Coat was liquid, it should be good.  High humidity should speed the flashing.  Only time I've heard of smearing, too much product was applied or something interfered with bonding (oily residue, wax, etc).