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Originally Posted by sheepherder
My brand new stainless Colt Series 80 Gold Cup came with a silver plastic mainspring housing. Rest of the pistol was stainless. I was fortunate to find a stainless AMT Hardballer mainspring housing at a gun show and installed it. I trashed the plastic POS. 
"Stainless steel" is a misnomer; 'rust resistant' is the proper term.  |
If anyone else "needs" one, Brownell's has them available for about $40.
I was astonished when I realized that Colt had put plastic on that model!