Repairing our toys is just another part of the whole hobby. A lot of us started as kids (I'm talking about us OLD guys) building kits or scratch building and we learned how a plane is designed and built - we can repair nearly anything. Guys today don't have that advantage - which is why places like RCU is nice - a lot of them bend a plane and dump it. You've already got one up on them, you're learning how to put 'em back in the air. Repairing really can be interesting AND QUITE REWARDING. Next time one of the guys dumps a plane, you grab it. If that one isn't repairable (a rarety), once you've got 2 or 3 "parts planes" you can probably put a whole new plane together - sometimes for next to nothing.
Yeah, it's good. It's ALL good.