Review on M12 10 oz Caulk Gun Tool Only - Milwaukee 2441-20 by Robert Cooper

Having used this tool 3x on over 100 Loctite Premium 28oz tubes - and one of them broke completely and bought another - I can confirm that most of the reviews here come from homeowners. Conducting a small project with the tool on just a few 10 ounce tubes. This thing is not very well designed and cannot correspond to the reality of real projects: - First, the design uses a rod that moves inside the device with the help of a gear. The same rod has a piston at the end that is pushed into the tube. The problem with this design is that the tubes keep exploding. I would say 1 in 10 bulbs fail in some way. Half of these defective ones are likely to explode from the back (the end of the piston). That means the glue will flow everywhere, including this entire pole. User serviceable area of the tool - Adhesives such as Loctite Premium 3x cure to a very hard non-brittle plastic. This plastic becomes smooth as it hardens. This smooth, hardened plastic then hits the teeth of a gear that pushes the rod, whereupon the tool cannot move the rod with any force and the tool burns. Anyone who actually uses it for 100 tubes will know. Which makes me think Milwaukee really doesn't care. After all, that's exactly how the crappy Ryobi tool works. They are still made in China. They all use more or less the same design. Heck, they probably share suppliers in China and don't even know it. In any case, I would love to find a better wireless tool. If the tool works (which is always the case until the tube explodes and ruins the mechanism, but tubes explode about 5-10% of the time, etc.) - it saves a lot of time and hands. I can't imagine not using it. But I might as well find a cheap Chinese imitation at the same time. B/c I don't want to change the tool every 100 tubes or so. Milwaukee: Actually, DEVELOP a new tool - one that throws the gear/thrust mechanism out of line where glue can come from. And/or make the gearbox accessible and easily replaceable. In fact, I tried taking the device apart and cleaning it, but I couldn't fix it.