Cherry & Olive Stoner

Like all the other reviewers I too found the cherry stoner excellent but as I only buy cherries in season it is not used a great deal, hence I've had mine for some years. However this year when retrieved from the drawer for some stoning, the plunger part fell into the bowl with the cherries and despite my best efforts to jam it back in, it still kept falling out. I was only after reading the other reviewers I realised it must be faulty. Is it too late to return mine? I would say they could be repaired or the plunger bit permanently fixed in some way?

We have 1 cherry tree and bought this pitter 3 yrs ago to pit cherries to freeze. No harvest that year so pitter not used until the following year. Better harvest, and for 1 week pitter worked wonderfully. Then the prong began falling out occasionally, which was most frustrating. However, the next time we used it - last year - we had a good harvest and to our utter despair the prong fell out with EVERY CHERRY WE TRIED TO PIT! I tried to jam the prong back in very hard, and this year managed to pit 9 cherries before it fell out, but after that it fell out with every cherry so have now given up.

Not impressed! I can stone 1 or 2 cherrys/olives before the gadget falls apart. Then put it back together for it all to happen again.

This gadget stoned the first pack of cherries perfectly. Few days later used it again, after a few cherries the prong lodged in the cherry, I did try pushing it back into the fitting but it kept falling out. Very annoying indeed.

All went well destoning the first dozen cherries but then the business part of the stoner came adrift and became wedged in the cherry. Tried to mend it but to no avail. I exchanged it for another but the same thing happened again. Returned again to the shop and obtained refund. Shame because the cherries which were destoned were very good.