Bed feet durability

Is it just me that has issues with these plastic bed feet frequently breaking? Why the legs can’t have a metal blank end with a screw in support is beyond me, they always break at the plastic surround, away in Italy & suffered another casualty, will have to obtain some spares when I’m next at Auto-Sleepers if I can… 

Next time, insert the square bit then put a large washer between the screw and the insert, spreads the load and the impact.

I have drilled and put self tapping screws through the metal legs at the level of the top of the plastic inserts.. hopefully this will last. Time will tell.
It's a rubbishy cheap design and even replacement ones are probably going to break again

Paulmold wrote:Next time, insert the square bit then put a large washer between the screw and the insert, spreads the load and the impact.

I’m not sure I understand where the washer goes Paul? It’s the insert that pushes in the leg tube that always breaks, only way I can see is to put a nut lower down on the thread then a washer on top of that then adjust? Would be so much better if the leg tubes just had a nut welded in the base of the tube then screw the foot into that.

You need to spread the load from the thread exerted onto the bottom of the plastic insert by adding a nut and a suitable washer as shown in the attached photo. I used a nut that has a combined washer, have had no problems at all.

I didn't explain it well but that's exactly what I was getting at.

Thanks guys… yes that’s kind of what I thought 

Ours broke while we were away too, ended up shaving down a wine cork and pushing it in.  It's still there..