I will jump in as well and say I've used Ed before. He may not always be super fast, but it's a hobby for him. The board I sent him was the result of me learning to not work on a machine with metal tools while it was powered on (shorted the GI into the switch matrix) and I blew out the CPU. It was a while ago, back in my early days. He did very well on the repair, no complaints at all.
In terms of this post, as always, the OP may have jumped the gun here, but we will all nicely wait for Ed to jump in and hopefully clear it all up.