I wonder what is your experience with Schopes elastic suspensions. Today I suddenly saw that one mic is just hanging on the threads (!)

- and found the plastic ring was broken at two places near the screws ... I took the other one to see how it is originally done there, considering a repair and to my amazement found that it is TOO broken at EXACTLY the same places (although still keeping the ring together). The mics, suspensions and stands are kept just in my studio room without any moving around, so it seems to be clear that it is kind of a material or construction fault with the time factor working (happening in the same way on both suspensions). I wonder why better materials are not used to hold these precious mics ...