Vintage Pecan Nut Cracker

I received this last night, and it seems like a good design but could handle being built significantly sturdier. I was cracking hickory nuts with it, and got maybe a half-dozen nuts in, before the pressure proved too much for it and one of the bolts on the plates (probably a better term for them) that connect the lever to the piston, snapped. Hickory nuts are tough, but a metal bolt should be tougher! $10 is reasonable for a good nutcracker, but not for one with a half hour service life.It's a shame, because it is a nice design...particular how you can set the depth to where the lever is just so far up over the body that when the nut cracks, the lever is stopped by the body before it smashes the nut any further. Excellent design, poor execution/quality.Edited a month later: Instead of returning the defective product, I opted to try and repair it, by buying some hardware that would work for it. I did so, and it worked through two or three nuts. Then an entirely NEW section broke, the piece that the handle screws into sheared off from its hinge. The pot metal that this is made of can't even stand up to a nut shell. Completely irreparable at this point. Apparently I waited too long and cannot return this product now, so I obviously made a tactical error trying to fix it (on my dime) instead of just shipping it back to them. Ah well. Caveat emptor.