circlip

Heyo, Im in the middle of a teardown, is there a reason that we shouldnt use snaprings instead of circlips to secure the wrist pins when setting up the pistons? As pictured below.. Thanks in advance!

Hiya folks, I've got my engine stripped to almost just the casing but I'm starting to look for rebuild parts now. One of the big things I read is that one should never reuse old circlips.... well if i've taken almost all of them off then that is a lot of circlips to buy! Money is not the...