It's so good and satisfying to see a person ply a trade to success. When I find myself stressed out for some reason, I like to do something I'm well trained at to help my brain kind of reset, which often gives me a different way of looking at what stressed me in the first place.
Absolutely! I find repair to be therapeutic at times, like repairing a stuck or dirty 1970s film camera lens. It's usually a straight forward repair, it just takes a bunch of patience and attention to detail. This repair was far more complicated than that, but it was worthwhile to get another instrument working around the lab.
