OXO Good Grip V-Blade Mandoline Slicer

Let's be clear about one thing: This mandoline ITSELF is great. It works well, has multiple blades that all store underneath it, cuts easily and without much effort, produces very thin slices. Unlike diagonal blade mandolines, it doesn't try to push the food to one side as you cut. It comes with a FAIRLY well thought out pusher that protects your hand well. Unfortunately, the pusher is a weak point. Its pressure plate is thin, un-reinforced, and developed a web of small cracks after only about half a dozen uses. You also can't get replacement parts except by warrantying THE WHOLE THING ... so, bad from a sustainability viewpoint. I THINK I've devised a repair for mine, but I have a lot of tools and materials and I know how to use them. My repair plan probably isn't something just anyone can do. I don't know for sure whether it will work; the glue on the new backing plate I made is curing right now. FIX THIS PUSHER, OXO! It is a disappointing weakness in an otherwise very good tool. That pressure plate should NEVER have been a single, thin sheet of un-reinforced, unsupported brittle plastic. You should have known what would happen. This has the look of an originally metal part that someone switched to plastic to save cost, without a single thought to whether the mechanical properties of the plastic were adequate for that design. That and the absence of any replacement parts except by warrantying the entire tool are MAJOR disappointments that cost two stars off this rating.