Yikes!

Almost as frightening as the Crunch and Snap noises when I was spinning happily....this Crunch and repeated snapping noise occurred while I was recently skeining away...turns out I've used my swift enough that I've managed to wear through a good number of the connecting strings on each of the arms - of course, I'm too lazy to go and replace all of them, but perhaps I should - to save my wall from taking a beating when one of the arms goes flying - and to save my poor heart from jumping when I hear it start whacking away.

Incidentally, other rather amazing crunch and snap noises are made when you hit a flying tumbleweed on the freeway....