Undersized swivel

I'm getting this banana weight ready for chinook and questioned the strength of the leading swivel, so I grabbed the end with needle nosed pliers and pulled. It failed at about 15 lbs.  Definitely not enough for a big king.  I'm replacing the one on the other weight as well.  Whoever sets these up isn't thinking.  That first one wasn't defective, just undersized.

I've got to go look at all mine now. I've got hand fulls of those. Thanks.

 I have the some of the same weights from bimart. I just tested one the way you did, and it broke easily. I have some other brand weights the same size, and the swivel is much larger.

This is a good lesson in trusting what you feel rather than what some company puts out on the shelf. If you think it looks like it won't hold up to a fight with a big fish, it probably won't. It's stuff like this that made me start tying all my own rigs using hooks, swivels, and split rings that I know will hold up. Attention to detail is an important component in consistently putting fish in your boat. Good on ya for trusting your gut feeling.

I guess I'll be the nay sayer, but I've used those things in a pinch while sturgeon fishing and they held up all day. 

Very good food for thought.    Looks like even the smaller 1oz weights use the same sized ball chain as the larger 6 oz versions I have.  I am thinking that seeing they can pick up a 25 lbs weight while being able to spin would be a good test.  Will use a fish scale that shows the peak weight so to know at what weight any of them failed at.