Attaching the new ones will probably make more sense.

[At least that will be kind of like fixing something, and that's what he used to be good at, so he wont have nagging thoughts in the back of his head making it worse. He turns over one claw, pulling back in all of the smaller prongs and turning it sideways in it's well so he can use it to hold the hand in place as he works, because the more detached it is the more it moves and the harder it is for him to work. ]

Yeah, no, I'm fine. I've got this. I'm good. I don't know what I'm doing but that's not really the point, I don't really have to know what I'm doing here to make it work so that's okay. I mean it's not like I'm doing literal surgery or anything, and hey, at least there's not a spark or all of time and cybertron at stake so, this is not the hardest thing I've been stuck having to do lately-

[Whirl breaks off into something kind of like laughing, has officially hit babbling point, so he stops, offlines his optic, vents until that clicking sound starts again, and keeps going.

He's fucntional, give him credit.]