I took a couple of weeks off work, as much as you can when it's in the middle of a lockdown pandemic in the united kingdom, and I had a couple of wins myself.
For many years I kept hold of a computer hard drive that had died on me, of all things the microcontroller on the control board blew itself up. I had looked for a replacement control board online and at the time they cost £100+ because this was such a common problem, however recently I looked again and found that it was on ebay for £6, with a 50/50 chance of being the wrong model.
I took a gamble. A direct swap of the board isn't what works with this, as you can even see highlighted in the ebay listing screenshot, each drive has a BIOS chip on it flashed with the necessary settings for the platters, sectors, etc. of the hard drive. Without the right BIOS chip, you'll just get garbled data or clicking.
Time for a bit of desoldering and kapton tape.
As luck would have it, it worked! My hard drive was brought back to life, and I was able to recover my data once more.
I'd say that is a good 'win' for £6 and a reflow station 
What's gone well for you recently?
