Robot Repair Center

The Robot Repair Center is a building in Fallout 3, slightly southeast of Canterbury Commons.

Description
It appears to have been a major repair center pre-war which specialized in Protectrons. The facility is divided into an office area, the Mechanist's Forge (there is an elevator leading here with a hard lock and will result in no fighting) and two repair sectors, Sector A and Sector B. Each sector is defended by, at minimum, a robot ranging from a Protectron up to a Sentry Bot and a MK-II Turret.

Loot includes 6 Pulse Grenades in a locked box under a desk (which are mentioned by a note on a terminal), numerous pieces of Scrap Metal, Sensor Modules, Energy Cells and other items you would expect to find in a robotics facilty, many on the numerous inactive Protectrons scattered throughout the site. There is a Nikola Tesla and You book near the conveyor belts on the first floor. In the mechanists forge, there is also a Nuka Grenade, a Workbench and a bed. This is the hideout of the Mechanist, from the quest The Superhuman Gambit.

Located opposite one of the turret arrays, on a high platform, is a security console, which allows the player to trigger an 'Emergency Pulse', essentially a massive EMP blast which will immediately shut down any and all robots nearby. In order to use this pulse, the encryption key must be looted from the nearby Easy locked safe.

The area in front of the repair center is a possible Random Encounter location.

Notable loot

 * Nikola Tesla and You book on the workshop floor in the west room just north of the door to the Mechanist's Forge. It is near conveyor belts.    It is on a counter next to a tool box and hidden by a wrench.
 * Lying, Congressional Style in the Mechanist's Forge, on a desk. Note that you'll have to traverse your way through the center and enter from the door to the West in order to find it.  You can not open the door to his room if you enter via the elevator.
 * Some 20 pieces of scrap metal can be found, as long as you search all the robots and all the containers. This can be traded to Walter in megaton for Experience and Caps or Karma.
 * A locked metal box (average) in the same room in the last cubicle on the left side contains 6 Pulse Grenades. A nearby terminal will point you towards the hidden key.
 * A Nuka-Grenade in the Mechanist's forge which requires 75 Lockpicking to access (Or 'Activate' the coffee Machine to open a secret wall), the grenade is located on the workbench

Enclave
After the quest "Waters of Life" a small Enclave outpost will appear just south of this position guarded by one Enclave officer and four turrets. The officer holds a key card that if held by the player, will stop the turrets from targeting the player. There is a terminal in the center of the outpost that has information on why the camp is there.

Trivia

 * The Snake mentioned in the Note from Frank on the Desk Terminal might be a reference to Solid Snake from the Metal Gear series, as he is said to have smuggled some Pulse Grenades into the repair center undetected.
 * The door to the Mechanist's Forge opens as the doors close at the end of each episode of "Get Smart".

Bugs

 * The system (Xbox360) locked up twice when approaching the facility in sneak mode with followers Star and Dogmeat. I had just come from the Antagonizer's lair and was carrying her suit.
 * Closing the secret door using the door gear while standing in the middle of the doorway will cause the player too be stuck inside. The only way to get out is to reload the game, as there is no way to access the door gear when stuck inside the doors.

Appearances
appears only in Fallout 3.