2015年4月27日星期一

Carrier Roller / Top Roller

Today Wolter Machine will introduce Carrier Roller / Top Roller of crawler machines like crawler excavator and crawler bulldozer.

What's Carrier Roller / Top Roller?


They also have different shapes, some people also just called them Roller......


What's the use of Carrier Roller / Top Roller?
Carrier Roller is to support track chain, like its name " Carry", carries track chain to move on so the track chain has a certain degree of tension.

What's the structure of Carrier Roller?


There are shafe, bearing, cover, roller shell, sealing, very simple.

If you need more details, contact us at: www.woltermachine.com

2015年4月24日星期五

What's undercarriage of crawler machine?

What's undercarriage of crawler machine?

When you buy a crawler machine, approximately 20% of your crawler's purchase price is for undercarriage, More importantly, nearly 50% of your maintenance costs will go into maintaining it.

So it's very important to buy good quality undercarriage, because it will save you more cash in the long term.


What are the components of undercarriage?
Let's see below together :



There are : Track Roller、Carrier Roller、Sprocket、Idler、
                   Track Shoe/Track Shoe Assembly、Tack Link Assembly、
                    Recoil Spring+Track Cylinder (you can call them Track Adjuster)、
                    also there are few small parts like Track Link Guard、Track Pin & Bushing、
                    Track Bolt & Nut.

We are mainly manufacturing Track Adjuster ( Recoil Spring + Track Cylinder), Track Link Guard, Track Pin & Bushing, Track Bolt & Nut.

So how long will the undercarriage work?
It depends on your working condition and your maintenance.
For example, if you use them in Mine area, then usually they work for 6 months, 
if you use them in city construction or house construction, usually they work for 12 months.

Now we know about the undercarriage, so in my blog, I will give more description of every component, follow my blog, follow us : www.woltermachine.com





Track Roller / Bottom Roller / Lower Roller

What's the definition of track roller?  
Track Roller also can be called Bottom Roller, Lower Roller, some people just called it roller, it's been used in a crawler machine like crawler excavator, crawler bulldozer.
So we gave the definition as below:

In a crawler machine, the small wheels that are under the track frame and that rest on the track chain.

Here I just put a reference photo for you to understand 

Today we are talking about Track Roller / Bottom Roller / Lower Roller, how does it look like?
They look like 

                   
                     or








They have different shapes, so here we show some drawings


How to buy the track rollers?
First you have to know the shape, then you have to check the dimensions, here I also show you some for your reference


Anyway, if you need more help, you can contact me, woltermachine.com