How to enlarge a ring?

• Honeybunz

  27 Jun 09, 21:52

  I bought a ring years ago.  Over the years, my fingers become fatter.  Now I want to put on that ring of mine but it's too tight. 

  Where should I bring to to enlarge it?

• nightzip

  27 Jun 09, 21:57

  Ah....this I know.

  You just bring it to a jeweller's shop. They will recommend a few ways, but will take your finger measurements again to know how much more to enlarge.

  1st way: Very small enlargement, they will grind/polish internal diameter of ring, to enlarge by at most 0.1 to 0.2mm increase in inner diameter.

  2nd way: Small enlargement, they will heat up the ring to slightly molten state, then use of something like a thong/rod and push it to make it with larger inner diameter.

  3rd way: Large enlargement, then they will charge more, as require more gold or silver, they will heat up the ring, then localized make a cut, and then heat up the spare gold or silver, then mold it to fill the cut gap, then overall heat up the ring again, then put over rod and then enlarge it.

• nightzip

  27 Jun 09, 21:59

  Of course, 4th way, they will recommend you buy a new ring from them.

• laurence82

  27 Jun 09, 22:01

  will this weaken the ring?

• nightzip

  27 Jun 09, 22:03

  Wont lah, this is the traditional way done by jewellers. Anyway you wont exert that much force by wearing it, also metals are mostly ductile. Over year, you may see cracks, but never crack like glass one.
• charlize

  27 Jun 09, 22:04

  This should motivate you to slim your fingers down.

• nightzip

  27 Jun 09, 22:09

  http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/ring_sizes.htm Some information here!
• TehJarVu

  29 Jun 09, 16:27

  Originally posted by charlize:

  This should motivate you to slim your fingers down.

  
  imagine doing exercise of the middle finger

• caleb_chiang

  29 Jun 09, 16:32

  Originally posted by laurence82:

  will this weaken the ring?

  
  Well, alternations to the ring will generally weaken the claws that secure the gems to it.

• A.T.R

  29 Jun 09, 16:35

  heat the ring in very high temperatures....it will expand and will go inside ur finger...=) tis is all physics!

• the Bear

  29 Jun 09, 16:37

  Originally posted by A.T.R:

  heat the ring in very high temperatures....it will expand and will go inside ur finger...=) tis is all physics!

  
  and fry your finger when you put it on - this is chemistry

  or shrink back to the original size when you let it cool down again - this is physics..

• A.T.R

  29 Jun 09, 16:38

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  
  and fry your finger when you put it on - this is chemistry

  or shrink back to the original size when you let it cool down again - this is physics..

  
  gd point there my friend!!

• Stimulatedfib

  29 Jun 09, 16:41

  Originally posted by charlize:

  This should motivate you to slim your fingers down.

  And perhaps slim your whole self down while you're at it.  =P