Charles A. Sherwood wrote:
Lets looks at this from different viewpoints.

viewpoint 1: You are a commercial shop and you need the machine to make
parts to sell. I suspect a commercial shop would figure its cheaper to
buy the part rather than make it in house. After all, any time spent
repairing machines is not time spent making parts to sell. The only
exception to this would be if the machine was critical to meeting
a delivery, in which case fixing the machine would be a high priority
item.

viewpoint 2: you are a home shop machinest
In this case you are balencing money vs time.
If you don't have the time and you have the money, you buy the part.
If you gots lot of time you make the part. (assuming you have the skill)

chuck

That's pretty accurate. In the context of this newsgroup, #2 would be
applicable.