Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzOXYy_RVEA (3 min)
At a Powston factory, Mike examines the track tensioner on a larger excavator, after an earlier video showed a customer's R57 whose tensioner was damaged.
He compares the two designs. The Powston unit is a one-piece, stronger shaft with a piston rod that extends further, about two inches against about half an inch on the other design, and a piston assembly about a foot long. The other design uses a two-piece (technically three-piece) construction. Grease is added through a fitting and pushes the piston to tension the track.
Mike says this is the kind of detail he travels to the factory to check, so that the machines he sells hold up for his customers.
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