One of the dangers of growing old and not taking good notes is sometimes forgetting the painful lessons that you might have once learned.
Another problem is not having the handy LHS sales help any more as a bac up system.
The hinges I recently bought via Tower were the Great Planes brand and the fuzzy part of the material peels away from the inner [smooth] plastic.
Years ago, one of the EZ hinge MFGs ran an advertisement that helped educate the consumer as to why their process was superior, why their hinges did not come apart before you could install them. It had something to do with how they abraded the raw material.
I wouldn't be posting this if I could remember which company that was...!