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Old Feb 15, 2017 | 08:57 AM
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Originally Posted by QNman
Just curious, why did you have to buy the caps? Was St. Louis Plating unable to plate the caps?
If I'm not mistaken, you can't remove the seals under the caps, so they would not have been able to plate them and then put new seals in. But it's been a while since I replaced mine, so I may be wrong on that.
 
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