Factory Shinn Support

We built your Shinn unit. We can rebuild it.

Shinn Systems got out of the game in 2024 — and sends their customers to us. Powertek is the only OEM-grade source for service, retrofit, and remanufacture on Shinn power packs and cutterheads. We're not a shop that works on Shinn units. We're the shop that made them.

Download the Shinn Support Sheet (PDF)

Why "factory" is the right word

Eleven years as the manufacturing source

From 2013 through 2024, our shop in Concord, NC designed and built the Shinn Systems grinding package — the diesel hydraulic power pack and the cutterhead — private-labeled to Shinn, who sold them to their customers.

Powertek's founder, Ron McMurphy, joined Shinn Systems in 1998 to help design and prototype the original power pack, and engineered the electrical controls and hydraulics on the line ever since. Every design change was implemented by Ron — Denison hydraulics in 1999, Rexroth in 2005, Linde in 2009. We hold the complete design specs for every legacy configuration still running in the field.

Nobody else can say any of that.

Powertek-built power pack carrying Shinn Systems branding, photographed in the Concord shop

Built in our shop, carrying the Shinn Systems name — this is what "we built your unit" looks like.

Pick the rung that fits

From a phone call to a like-new machine

Free phone assessment

Serial number, hours, symptoms. Zero commitment. We'll tell you straight what the unit needs — and what it doesn't.

Service & repair

Pump and motor rebuilds, hydraulic overhaul, controls, component-level work. Quoted per scope — for the unit that just needs to run.

Complete reman

Full teardown and rebuild to factory-equivalent or better condition — at a fraction of new-unit cost. Fixed quote after inspection.

The hero offer

The full retrofit — make it new without buying new

As long as the engine runs, we can make the rest of it new — for a fraction of the cost of a new unit:

Modern hydraulics — upgrade to the new 280-pump hydraulic system, or reman your existing pump and motor
All-digital control panel — no more leaky hydraulic gauges in the cab, burned-out indicator bulbs, or throttle-cable pump control
Powertek Connect standard — live machine data on your phone, and our engineering team in Concord watching it run
Your cutterhead retrofitted too — the whole package, updated as one system

Pack is good, carrier is worn out?

There's a transfer option: we pull the power pack off the old excavator, install it on a newer one, and retrofit it in the same job — up and running with Powertek Connect, without buying a new pack.

Every retrofit and transfer is quoted after inspection of your unit — call with the serial number and we'll get it scheduled.

When you're ready for new iron

The successor line

The new Powertek power packs, XPE excavators, and XPM cutterheads are the direct successors to the units we built for Shinn — same engineering lineage, modern hydraulics, digital controls, and Powertek Connect on every machine.

HT-575 Power Pack XPE Excavator

What to have ready when you call

Unit serial number
Year it went into service (best guess is fine)
Operating hours
What it's doing — or not doing

Five minutes on the phone and we'll know which rung of the ladder your unit is on.