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Repair
1 of 3: Repair affects your ability to work with mechanical items (excluding computers) -- either to repair them, or to disable them, as appropriate.
This skill isn't all that critical, since you won't find all that many places where you need to use it as part of a puzzle solution. Many of the "repair" quests that you will receive involve getting and installing replacement parts, and those do not appear to involve checks against your Repair skill.
2 of 3: You will be able to improve this skill with "Deans Electronics" books available throughout the game. As with all other such books, the books become less effective as your skill approaches 100%, but reading them should still get you the repair skills you will need to finish the game, and even to solve many side quests.
3 of 3: One of the major uses of this skill is in disabling forcefields, which you will tend to find later in the game. The electronics books should give you most of the skill you need to get past these forcefields by the time you encounter them, although allocating a couple of points to the skill here and there -- especially once the books help less -- might not hurt.
