Sink hose sprayer guide

[Barbara Potter]

Hi,
I'm a newbie to this site. Have done many plumbing projects; not all of them well.
My newest frustration is the cheap plastic plumbing parts they call chrome, brushed nickel, stainless or any other number of finishes that lead you to believe that the object is metal when, in fact, it is just the finish color on the plastic. How do they get away with it?
I have a nice quality Price Pfister faucet which is chrome-a beautiful thing that has stayed nice for years. The sprayer however, is another issue. It was part of the set but is chrome colored plastic. The escutcheon is chrome (wow) but the sprayer and hose guide is plastic. The hose guide snapped at the sink like plastic does. I super glued it and it lasted for a while and of course after a month it snapped again. PF has sent me a whole new sprayer assembly free of charge but I do not want to get under my extra deep single sink to replace this so that the cheap plastic hose guide can snap again. Of course the sprayer does not come apart at the sprayer and hose connection so there is no way to make this easier.
Is there anyone who makes a hose guide that is in fact metal and not plastic, and, are these things a standard size?
Thanks

 

[hj]

I did not know Pfister even made a hose that does NOT separate between the head and the hose. You are just supposing that the new guide will crack, but I have seen them NEVER crack until the faucet was going to be replaced.

 

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[Barbara Potter]

I did not know Pfister even made a hose that does NOT separate between the head and the hose. You are just supposing that the new guide will crack, but I have seen them NEVER crack until the faucet was going to be replaced.

Hopefully that will be the case with the new one; maybe this was a one in a million. I haven't had any luck finding one that is metal.

 

[hj]

Yo probably will not. They do not spend a lot of money making them.