Another advantage of using a bead chain as a neck lanyard is that it can be reconfigured into a wrist-lanyard and then converted back to a neck lanyard with ease. To achieve this you would use a standard size (number 3) bead chain and equip it with two couplers of size number 6. The number 6 couplers are a bit larger and have a hole in them so they can be used for splicing. The two couplers could then be used to splice a loop into each end of the chain, one loop for your wrist and one for your equipment. <br><br>You might want to do this if you are using a tool in a place where dropping it would mean losing it for good.<br><br>The second coupler can be made part of the neck lanyard by adding a 1" section of bead chain. Another advantage of having the extra coupler is that if the chain breaks, the second coupler would repair it.<br><br>