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One thing that becomes obvious after a few years of this competition is that you can't make everything yourselves. If you can buy what you need, that's better than making it, unless you're under severe time constraints (which almost never happens to us, since we're literally within driving distance of McMaster-Carr).

Personally, I would reserve the new tools for the complex parts, and try to stay away from using them unless they're actually necessary.