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Originally Posted by dtengineering
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By your definition of Manufacturing cutting any raw material E.G. Everything including plastic spacers and extrusion and sheet mentioned in rule 2.b. is considered illegal. I honestly think your defining "Manufacturing" as a form of "Prefabrication" but that is my opinion.
Another note two out of the seven definitions on that page deal with large scale fabrication.
In FTC scale we would never be considered anywhere close to large scale fabrication. We are talking about small amounts of parts 2-10 at most.
The better wording of this rule would consist something along the lines of:
"Raw Material (e.g. metal, plastic, etc.) provided that it is readily available to all teams from
standard distributors (e.g. McMaster-Carr, Home Depot, Grainger, etc.). The definition of
Raw Material are items before being processed or manufactured into a functional form - insert something about fabrication here. "
- Andrew