Wow! I bet your the first to break one! Those things are built like tanks Laughing with you, not at you. One day I stepped on one new in the tube.....I never even floated it!
Edit to say "Oh, now I see, you broke the cylinder.......done that too!"
"yeah? yeah? the maple flavored kind?" A dog on you tube.
Hope you don't think your special!!
I do that by forgetting not to drop the hydrometer in the liquid from too high, (which is about 5" don't ask me how I know ).