size of silver tubing for cores?

[furrybert]

Hi everyone
I've gotten some 5mm mandrels and the silver core rivets from tuffnells.  I was wondering if beads made with these will fit on a Pandora/biagi bracelet?  It's just that I don't have one of the bracelets to try them out, so I was wondering if anyone else had ever tried them :-)

[Kaz]

Hi everyone
I've gotten some 5mm mandrels and the silver core rivets from tuffnells.  I was wondering if beads made with these will fit on a Pandora/biagi bracelet?  It's just that I don't have one of the bracelets to try them out, so I was wondering if anyone else had ever tried them :-)

Yes, they do and very nice they look too  .
And for those doing silver coring, Diane (dinah46) found us some 5.5mm tubing (from Cooksons I believe) - having used the very innovative method of putting different size knitting needles though the hole in the bead that came off the 5mm mandrel to see what would fit best! I have not tried mine yet but I think Diane is having success.
Kaz

[turnedlight]

Just to say, I had an experiment on my friend's lovelinks bracelet, the rivet cores (4mm) won't go over the stopper bit on the bracelet.

[furrybert]

Are those the tuffnells cores you are using turnedlight?
Is the lovelinks bracelet bigger than a pandora do you know?