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Unwinding E string

I bought some Mega Slinky strings when I bought my guitar like 6 months ago. No issues, sounding great, but today as I was playing a riff on the high E/B strings the E string kept going out of tune suddenly, so I would get it back in tune and continue and then a few minutes later it would go out again. Nothing happening on the adjustment end. String sounds normal when re-tuned.
This continued until about half an hour later the string broke.. or I thought it broke until I looked at it, and what had actually happened is the end of it unwound from the metal circle thing on the end (attached to the string, not the guitar). The metal bit went flying.
I never thought a string would unwind itself from there. Anyone seen this before?
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i don't think ive seen that. i usually try to switch out strings when they get tough or hard to keep in tune. do you take any heroic efforts to try to prolong your strings?
JamesBugman · 56-60, T
@dirge I use fast fret cleaner on them on occasion. Makes them nice and slippery while dry. I doubt that affected the string winding since I never go down the strings that far with it.
@JamesBugman yeah, apparently some people pull them off and boil them to clean
JamesBugman · 56-60, T
@dirge I can see that causing strings to break. Temperature changes would be bad for metal.
@JamesBugman I used to always freeze mine before I'd put them on. lots of shifting back and forth (and heating in particular) can weaken them.