Meinl Heel Shaker

I like the tone of these shakers a lot. Unfortunately I have to say "shakers" because they separated from the mount very soon after purchase. Due to how this thing is constructed, it is near imoissible to fix it, as the screw/bolt holding these two balls on the either side of the foot mount fell into one of those ball and is now dancing around with the pebbles. I now have two overpriced plastic shaker disks. I was almost never able to use this as a "heel shaker". First, it tended to fall out (perhaps my bad technique or anatomy), and second... well... it fell apart almost immediately.