Originally Posted by
kipper
I'm in the market for a new french press ASAP... Mr. Kipper, in typical Marine fashion, while trying to disassemble it to clean it, apparently thought it was much like trying to field strip an M16, and used brute force to tilt the handle away from the carafe, to remove the carafe. In doing that, he managed to break the glass.
Frankly, the Aeropress is great for someone like that. I can lean on it with all my weight (typically do) and it has survived years of that abuse every day.