Harvey's Early Days
Harvey's Early Days
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Picture taken August 1953 Notice how thin I was?
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picture of me operating a brand new Storm Vulcan Cam grinder in August
of 1953. I had been in business since January 1953, building
racing engines. I was unable to purchase two camshafts that were
alike for my own racing engines. Therefore, I purchased this cam
grinder to make my own cams for my own racing engines. I
considered myself a good machinist and knew how to make two parts alike.
Never in my wildest dreams did I ever believe that the purchase of this machine was a total disaster. It took all of my skill, and a good portion of my days, trying to make two camshafts alike. Two years later I was somewhat successful. In fact so successful in making good camshafts, that I discontinued the engine building business. I eventually acquired three more used Storm Vulcan cam grinders, as bad as they were, and made them work by highly modifying each of the four machines. In the early 1960's I discovered another brand of cam grinder, and purchased one with the understanding that I would make no payments for one year or until the machine was satisfactory for my use. This machine was one of the very first Van Norman cam grinders. I eventually owned more than twenty of these machines. Most of which I bought used. Only after the middle 1960's did I sell the four Storm Vulcan Cam grinders for a total of $2000, to a gentleman by the name of Joe Lunati. I was glad to get rid of these four pieces of junk! I warned Joe that these machines were worn out and junk, and suggested that he remanufacture the machines before using them. he did not! He put them into production immediately.
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