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Jan 17, 2010 | 09:56 PM

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Retainer question

I bought a set of TFS heads used from a member on here, and I have been doing a lot of looking and researching, and I just noticed that the color of my spring retainers are black. I know that the TFS heads are suppose to come with titanium retainers, but every titanium retainer I see is silverish looking.

So what I am asking here is do I have titanium retainers or did I get screwed and the guy replaced them with some steel ones?

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Jan 18, 2010 | 12:31 AM

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Do they look like this?

If so, those are spring locators and not retainers. They go below the spring.

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Jan 18, 2010 | 01:25 AM

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Yea i know what spring locators and retainers look like. Both my locators and retainers are of that color.

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oh, now I see what you're up to. You got screwed cause, like you said, the titanium retainers are silver in color. Steel are black.

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Jan 18, 2010 | 07:22 AM

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some of the ti retainers have a hard coating on the changing their color just try sticking a magnet to them if it sticks their steel.

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