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Originally Posted by Kevin Kolodziej
Or you could just take those items off your practice bot and revert them to their COTS state (unassemble gearboxes, remove leads, etc.) before you leave for competition. That doesn't cost any money.
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Or you could revert them to their COTS state at the event if they become necessary.
If Team A were to have their practice bot in the arena parking lot and remove an assembly consisting of a stock pneumatic cylinder with a rod end and jam nut threaded onto the end, all they need to do to be legit is to take the rod end and jam nut off, carry all three items into the pit, then put them back together.
This brings back the days when there was a massive argument over whether battery leads had to be included in your witholding allowance, because the batteries were no longer COTS as soon as they were assembled. FIRST ended up saying they did not, that they were integral to the battery. Terminals are also integral to motors, so logically they should allow a motor to still be COTS after being applied. Has anyone asked that Q&A?