ORIGINAL: vicman
All of my TT .46 & .40s have metal cages in the stock form.
Same here, I've *never* seen one come with a polymide retainer as stock which is why they sometimes grenade like that.
Fortunately, the TT46Pro is a *tough* beast and we've had two cage-failures (stock bearings) in our club with no permanent damage to the engines involved but with lots of shrapnel in the chamber and some very light nicks on the piston.