This actually started when I had a problem with another mod that left me with a permanent -2 in perception. Long story short, rather than scrap my character, lose a few hours, or mess with my SPECIAL / skill levels in the console, I created a small mod with a custom copy of my favorite hat (Desperado) with a custom effect list to offset the reduction. I placed it in a cell, then loaded the game and went to retrieve it.

First I had to solve the "my hat is stuck to the side of my neck" problem, got the hat back on my head where it belongs, and now that I've been shot at several times I find that repair isn't working. I double-checked my hat mod in FNVEdit and the repair list is correct, and all other items in the group repair correctly (I somehow ended up carrying 4 various cowboy hats so that was easy to test), but my custom hat won't repair with any of them.

Any help would be appreciated. I'm coming from Skyrim CK so some things in GECK are familiar to me, others I'm still getting used to (like the repair list).