Please see if you can get the assembly done in US without back and forth with burnin's group - this will have significant advantage. I bought in your group with this hope (this is not a binding expectation, but a hope). Thanks!
Ok, great - but this sort of discussion needs to be linked to OP - massively helps (a direct link to relevant post would do). Also the original post would benefit from some organized writing. This is just the ordering phase. Things will get more complex with passing days.
Also I can see that John is doing the bulk of the work here (read > 90%). I realize that 1% is too little comp for ragingazn (compare to 10% for zefir). So, may be he can get involved a little more, and raise his comp as well (to 5% or so). He is underestimating the massive work coming towards him - I would hate to see this fail completely if he feels demotivated by looking at work/comp ratio.