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Yeah, when they shut down the Chicago facility entirely and moved engineering. Even sadder when Snap-on bought them out.

The name is definitely familiar. Didn’t work directly with him. They had a pretty big tech pool that I worked with, wiring proto boards and stuff. Being a car guy, I really enjoyed the engineering/development phases that involved working with the new or updated product in the clinic on...

It might be of some interest to you to know that, although the bulk of the manufacturing was taking place at their much larger Crystal Lake facilities, some light manufacturing was still occurring at Harlem and Avondale (the repurposed building is still there, and can be seen in Google Street...

New member here. Was reminiscing about my early career working at Sun Electric at their Harlem & Avondale engineering facility (1978-84) when I stumbled on this forum and thread. Had to join. Started at Sun when they did R&D in a small facility nearby in Niles, IL, and I worked on their VAT-60...