Thiel Owners

for what it is worth,  my interactions with Rob G were great. 

Dino - I suggest that you contact Rob. Note that if he neglected your prior request, it was not intentional. Rob has the best chance of supplying relevant information for your decision.

Regarding option 3 above: My present work is all preliminary, and I am making parallel progress on various models, measurement models and lab protocols. But a CS3.5R is hypothetical, with no meaningful timing. When it does issue, it will include some valid driver solution such as replacement drivers and/or repair potential.

Unsound & Tomthiel,
Thank you. 
Tom, glad to hear you will eventually be working on the CS3.5 R, so it leaves to me no chance but then repair my gears. 
So, If unable to fix locally, I will definetively reach out Rob for a preliminary opinion. I am pretty sure something went wrong but it was not intentional.

^I wish Rob the best, but he never returned a call after leaving him a voice message many months ago.

unsound,

Did you follow up that call?

Especially if we are talking about a small outfit run by one, or few people, it can be tough juggling the  communication part.  It's certainly taken some follow up reminders when I've communicated with a number of smaller companies, especially the almost one-man-show type.