Why do my French press guts always break?

[N-OS X-tasy!]

I bought the 36-oz. version of this one eight years ago at Home Goods for less than half of what Amazon sells it for today — never had a bit of trouble with it (prolly cuz it’s built like a tank):

https://www.amazon.com/Frieling-Stainles...oding=UTF8&refRID=JYMTF2R6EG5DKTPJ2W17&th=1