I talked to him on the phone, and he said he is no longer going to work on them because they take way too much time, they have lots of parts and wires to balance and manage on his bench, they get damaged easy, and often when they get back to the user, they blow again due to board/power issues. He said he was in this as a business and they are not a money maker, only a pain.
He fixed mine, after 3 months, and shipped it back. Plugged it in, and it had no vertical reflection. Quickly looking at it, the transistors were shot. I sent it back, and he found something in the high voltage section that was shorted, probably during shipping, that caused it to fry things. I lookedit over, and had a friend do the same when I got it, and didn't see anything shorted. Long story short, I told him I would pay him to fix it again, but he didn't want to do it because t would take a full day to do, and he could do several others in that time, that are easier and more profitable.
He has enough monitors in the queue to keep him busy, it makes send to focus on the easy ones that make him the most profit.