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Yeah, mine had the brass zippers too. I know I told you to expect plastic. So perhaps the plastic was just on the Mexico production. I'll probably get more details on that next week at DEMA to understand why brass is still being shipped on new production when they had previously switched to plastic. I am confident that they don't have any "old" production Aircore shells shipping. (could also be that Canada was still sitting on a pallet of brass zippers to work down before switching to plastic.)
The wrist cuffs are of course attached, but the wrist rings need to be transferred over along with the seals. Basically, exactly what would happen if the suit was returned and they swapped out the liner, except in this case the liner was shipped to the dealer(s) to do the work - saves on shipping costs for someone, and spreads the labor around so they can concentrate on churning out more product. Mine did come with the neck seal, probably because it was included with the neck ring installation on the liner. On the wrists I think the cuffs and the rings are separate stock items, thus the cuffs only are bonded to the suit and the separate rings are transferred over.
