» Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:47 am
Raul rocks. With a PC game glitch you can have everything you and he can carry (and ED-E or Rex, for that matter) repaired to 100% for free (but you have to have enough caps to at least cover your single most expensive repair). Just travel with him to his shack, take all his inventory, tell him to part ways and wait at his shack, walk up to him and ask to repair your things. Once he is done, crouch, pickpocket your caps back using "take all" (he will likely catch you, but won't become hostile) then leave and re-enter the shack. Presto! You get all your caps back, and you can repeat if you didn't have enough to cover everything the first time. He can then re-join you when you're done. Some may call it cheating, but I consider it a make-up for not being able to use him to repair your stuff when traveling.
He's also funny as hell. He has a particularly funny comment after you've chosen one of the more gruesome acts you can commit later in the questline.