Chain pliers let you open and close links in chandelier chain without damaging them. Just why would you want to open and close chandelier chain links? To change the length of the chain, of course.
Westinghouse makes the pictured pliers from malleable iron and gives them spring-loaded handles. A pair will cost you anywhere from $10 to $20.
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Now this is a tool that I didn’t know existed, but would love to have. I don’t often mess with decorative chains, but when I have, I usually chew ‘em up pretty good with a couple of pairs of pliers, and I never get the links closed up nice.
If you use two pair of smooth jaw pliers and open the link sideways, it is much easier to return the link to it’s original position. When returning the ends of the link toward each other, go just a little beyond center and then when you let go, they will center up again.
Dave – thanks for that tip. Now if I can only remember it next time I need to do this.
They are a very cool idea and one I’ve never seen before. However, I don’t think I’ll ever do enough stuff with chandeliers to buy one of these now that we don’t have rent properties anymore.
I must say that the most curious thing about it is that on amazon it is frequently bought together with a book – by JK Rowling called The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Dunno what makes them go together.
Our inventory says that we have 3 sets of these marked “Yorkville Industries #2153 – and being carried at an original cost of $10.68 (1986) total for the 3 of them or $3.56 each. I guess that $20 is about right given the intervening 24 years of inflation. Ours were likely made in the USA. I’m not sure if anyone is using them. What I do know is that we always carry several “S’ hooks with us to hitch-up hanging lamps to get them out of the way on jobs.
I just use pliers and a screwdriver. Hard to see scratches on the links when they are 8-14 feet in the air.