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Strange. None of my coating is over 6-8 months old and I've used both colors in the last two months with no issues. My heater is a kerosene unit, so I heat the shop up and when it's time to spray, I kick the heater off to avoid any open flame, kick on the fan in my spray booth and spray. As the fan runs it cools back down, but I can usually run for 20 minutes before it gets cold again. Once I'm done spraying, the fan goes off and parts go into the oven & the heater comes back out again. I know that's a bit redneck, but it's my only option at the moment.
I did do a spray a month ago on a pretty cold night when I didn't have the heater and it went perfect, so I was t considering cold a factor.
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This could be the problem.
During this last cold snap, the normal heat in the shop has trouble keeping up, so I used a torpedo heater with diesel fuel. I have run it before with zero problems. However, when it got so cold, it was running a pretty good duty cycle. After a while I had the Cerakote in the cup turning to a snot like sludge. At first I thought it was a bad batch, which I have never actually encountered before, so I was hesitant to even believe it exists.
But it kept happening with every color and bottles I knew were still good or had not been opened yet.
After sleeping on it, I decided figured it could be the heater fumes. So I dialed it back the next day and the problems went away.
Now the fumes were never bad enough to bother me, I have a pretty large open area with high ceilings. But I can only assume they were enough to have an effect on the paint, because it was the only variable I changed and things went back to normal. Could be your problem too.