How do you remove a captive bead ring?

Captive Bead Ring Removal

Grab the jewelry by ring with the index and thumb of one hand.
Grab the bead or ball with the index and thumb of the other hand.
Pull and apply force in opposite directions causing the tension that the ring has on the ball or bead to break.
Once the ball or bead is free, rotate the jewelry out.

Additionally, how do you open captive bead jewelry?

Use the ball grabber tool to grip the captive bead with its indentations on either side. Hold the ring steady with your free hand and push the captive bead into the open segment of the ring. The captive bead should pop into place.

In this way, how do you remove a ball closure ring? The ball of a BCR or segment of a bar closure ring is held in place by the tension of the ring; there is a dimple on either side for the ring to clip into. To remove the ball or segment, you must push it out of the ring – it does not unscrew.

Likewise, how does a captive bead ring work?

The captive bead or ball fits into a small opening in the circle of the ring. The bead is slightly larger than this opening and has small indentations or depressions that correspond to the ring’s end-points so that it may fit snugly against them, thus completing the circuit of the ring.

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Where does a captive ring go?

Captive bead rings are a common style of body jewelry that can be really irritating to insert and remove if you have never done it before. Just make sure you line up one of the dimples of the bead with the edge of one side of the ring, and then push the second dimple right into the ring and you have done it.

Can you reuse a captive bead ring?

Answer: If you had to take your captive bead ring jewelry out or the ball bead popped out somehow, putting them back in can be tricky, but it can be done.