By-the-Inch – 2.5mm x 6.5mm Heavy Staple Flat Rectangle Paperclip Chain 14kt Gold Filled

One of our most popular chain styles, just a bit chunky! Our 2.5mm x 6.5mm heavy staple paperclip chain is one of our go-to chains for designing.

Need larger quantities? Shop By-the-Meter 2.5mm x 6.5mm heavy staple in gold filled

This chain is sold By-the-Inch. Minimum order is 6 inches.

How many mm are in an inch? 25.4mm

How many cm are in an inch? 2.54cm

LINK MEASUREMENT:

• OD link: 2.5×6.5mm
• What gauge open jump ring to use:  Up to 18ga, 1.02mm
• Recommended open jump ring: 5mm 18ga Open Jump Ring.
  • If soldering  4mm 22ga Open Jump Ring or 5mm 20ga Open Jump Ring

LINK WIRE DIMENSIONS:

• Thickness: 0.5mm, 24ga
• Width: 0.7mm, 22.5ga

RECOMMENDED FINDINGS FOR THE 2.5MM X 6.5MM HEAVY STAPLE PAPERCLIP CHAIN:

• Clasps – 8mm Spring Clasp, 4.5x12mm Rectangle Lobster Clasp or 7x12mm Rounded Lobster Clasp
• Soldered Ring (Closed) – 5mm 22ga Closed Ring or 5mm 20.5ga Closed Ring

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Gold Filed VS Gold Plate and Vermeil.

Gold Filled is an American metal manufacturing process and legal standard of quality. GF is two sheets of solid karat gold. Most popular being 14kt gold. These sheets are  bonded over (or for wire, rolled in tube) a core of brass. A piece of jewelry to be legally stamped with the telltale ‘GF’ marking, its weight must be at least 1/20th gold. This explains the typical stamp you would expect to see on gold filled articles: “1/20 14K GF”, which means that 5 percent of the piece is 14 karat gold. Due to the surface layer of gold-filled jewelry being about 100 times thicker than any plating, gold-filled pieces tend to last much longer, and are considered ‘lifetime jewelry’

Gold plated jewellery is made using a thin layer of gold to surround base metals or sterling silver. The fine layer of gold is set using the method of chemical or electro-chemical plating. It is the cheapest of the three forms of gold jewellery (solid karat gold, gold filled and gold plated), and is the quickest to tarnish. When sterling silver is used as the interior metal, with at least 2 microns of gold plating, the item is primarily labeled as Gold Vermeil. Gold filled is not to be mistaken for gold plated over sterling silver – which is far less expensive than gold filled.

American standard gold filled does not have any sterling silver in it, and although it is more expensive, it lasts far longer than gold plated over base metal and over sterling because it has 100 times more gold than any possible plated process. How long gold filled or plating lasts depends largely on the chemical makeup of and the care with which the person wearing the jewellery takes – which varies widely.

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Weight	.1846 g
Dimensions	24.5 × 2.5 × 6.5 mm
pa_material	Gold Filled 14kt