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Fine Art Landscape Photographer
I doubt it was what you describe. Perhaps the brand of stainless steel rings you've used was bad but not the one I've used. My rings are very solid and have 82% 5 star & 9% 4 star reviews on Amazon which is pretty high for any product. I can probably lift my luggage using these rings and they will not rip. What kind of force and under what circumstances would cause for stainless steel to be ripped? The only way your scenario would work out is if somehow during baggage handling my steel ring got stuck somewhere in conveyor belt and got pulled by continuous mechanical force. If this would happen there would be a lot of friction on the luggage handle where steel ring is attached and I would've notice damage.
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As an experiment I will attach generic tag + another AA EXP tag and see if none, one or all disappear over time.
That's the same one I got from Amazon (you have purchased this on xxxx). If you look at the 3rd picture, you see the adapters on both ends of the wire? That adapters are clamped on. If you pull hard enough they came out from the wire. I guess you do have to pull very hard; I have not tried to break one myself, but that's where it came out on mine. Maybe my luggage were just very roughly handled. I have Rimowa topas and the aluminum case looks like they have been ran over by a herd of elephants in under 2 years. I just took my luggage back to Rimowa to fix the wheel housing, the guy took a look at all the dings and dangs and said if I want them to try to hammer them out... I said "why bother, they will just come back in a trip or 2."