Recently I had cause to dispense some construction adhesive in order to stick something to another something (as one does). This reminded me that squeezing construction adhesive out of its tube with a regular manual caulking gun is quite a bit more difficult than I'd prefer to put up with. So, I hired a robot to squeeze it for me.
I was almost a little worried when the new electric caulking gun stalled before squeezing any adhesive out of the tube, but after clearing up a bit of dried up adhesive from the tip it was able to dispense it without too much difficulty.
And just for context, it's not like I'm lacking in forearms strength by any measure, I can squeeze the handle on my caulking gun hard enough to basically collapse it, and the construction adhesive will just barely, ever so slowly, ooze out of its tube.
So the fact that this new caulking gun can squeeze out a healthy bead at a respectable rate is nothing short of impressive.
I suspect I'll still use my manual caulking gun for most regular caulking jobs as it's much lighter, a bit more compact, and absolutely sufficient for the job. At least, I will after the novelty of using this new one wears off. But for construction adhesive in particular, I'm going all in on electric power.
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