Removing Air-Tites From CAPS Album Sheet

and I own several CAPS albums. Mostly for modern coins and yes, removing and reinserting is tricky. I have a few dented pages myself. I am hoping with some practice I will get better at it. If I mess any of them up too much I noticed they sell all the pages individually so I will just replace the page. So far none of them are dented to that point...yet

I have only tried to remove one Air-Tite from a CAPS page because it was misaligned, and yeah, it wasn't exactly easy to get out. Funny, because that's one of their marketing points. "Easy in, easy out." (or something like that)

Fortunately, replacement pages aren't terribly expensive, just $5. Of course, the shipping will be more than the replacement...

leverite! What CAPS album/page did you order?

You could also order a custom page from their web site.

I use mine for ASEs. I was looking to for a way to save space in my safe, and realized that if I moved out all the OGP for my ASEs, I'd save a ton of room. I still wanted to protect my ASEs and not just have the capsules loose in my safe, so I decided to go for the 2 CAPS ASE albums (2228 and 2229). This solution allows me to save space, organize my ASEs, and (perhaps best of all even though not my original goal) make them easy to display.

Maybe a suggestion for the CAPS folks would be to put a finger-sized through hole in each of the Air-Tite recesses to aid in popping the capsules out. I could do that with my drill press if I really wanted to go to the effort, but since the pages are composed of two pieces, doing so might allow moisture to gather between the layers.

I spent a couple of hours this afternoon starting to move my PDSS Kennedy halves from a Dansco to the CAPS. Next will be my Franklin halves. My Jefferson nickles have been moved already. And CelticKnot (as well as Cascade) nudged me into getting a CAPS for my Silver Eagles as well so that one needs to be filled as well. The next one I will buy will be for my Roosevelt dimes. I too like the look of them although they do take up MUCH more space.

Wow, nice set you've got there! Have you done anything with the custom page option? I didn't realize the binders had slip covers, too - I've been concentrating on the pages and haven't even looked into the rest yet. What ended up being your main motivator for the switch from Dansco?

Wow, that's a great looking collection of CAPS albums, Debrajc!



"Work." If that's work, I wanna hire on and get a paycheck.

Bumping an old thread, as I just moved some Classic Commems from a Dansco to CAPS, since the price of some was getting too risky for a slide fiasco.

These are generic Half Dollar size blank pages. When things get more permanent (still constantly shuffling) I'll get the label maker out.

Most of the holes are 'just right' and a little push on one edge, the other edge pops up.

Some of the holes are too big, and every time I turn the page, the coin/airtight fall out -- easy fix, I cut slivers/shims out of some old Whitman slides.

Some of the holes are too tight, and like the OP, they are buggers and I was afraid of denting the plastic, so for now they stay. Drilling a hole as mentioned above is probably the best of the worst options. With the Blank pages, the plastic pages are already separated with the blank paper/date page in the very back. Looks like that could even be upgraded if you have a big enough hole puncher (or a friend who is a graphic artist)

Might be a little late to the party here but I just started with the CAPS albums and had to remove and shift some A-type capsules. Picking up on a post I saw, I used a shot glass over which I centered each capsule to be removed. A quick pop using the butt of my palm and the capsule fell into the glass. Repeat as necessary. No dents in the plastic and works like a charm. I suppose any small cylinder having a low center of gravity and which slightly covers the opening would also work for this size -- and for the larger capsule sizes. Hope this helps --