I've dealt with Dave for about 30 years now, starting when he was local. His work is first rate and he is immensely knowledgeable about fixing almost any camera that exists, but the turn times seem to be highly variable and sometimes things have taken months, years, or forever to get done. He had a local shop and an assistant from the 1980s to the mid 2000s; he went into retirement for about 5-10 years, and then when he came back and started work out of Chelsea, things got really inconsistent. Things weren't getting done, things were getting lost, and it seems my Konica FT-1 Pro Half might even have been flooded out in his shop. I don't have any insight as to whether the various things hanging him up are real or not, and I've heard quite a few, but he is pushing 75 or 80, so it is an age where personal and family health can be an issue. I have a huge pile of his yellow repair tickets from successful fixes over the years, but at this point, I would worry that sending things there is going to be a black hole.
