There is a split ring tool that helps a lot, but still, I find it takes a lot of patience.
I have tried silver plated and sterling silver spit rings, found them to be too soft of a metal and too expensive. The split rings I used are nickel, can be found in bags of 500 at a fair price. The trick of using split rings is to not destory the tight spring action by pulling the split ring too wide when putting something onto it.
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The split ring tool (shown right side of this photo) greatly helps to place the chandelier drop and earring piece into a split ring. Still it can take a lot
of patience in order not to spring the split ring across the room or to stretch out the split ring and make it un-useful for securely holding the earring pieces
together. Once I get the split ring started onto the earring piece, I often use a needle nose plier to help turn the split ring until it goes completely into
the loop of the earring piece.
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