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Re: pool noodles

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Originally Posted by mrnoble View Post
And I also don't understand how the way the product is marketed is relevant. Do the words "appropriate for use as noodles for the pool or beach" (emphasis on "appropriate for") magically change what the product actually is? It is The. Same. Thing. It has a solid core, as do the most desirable noodles we can purchase that are marketed /as/ noodles.
You were around for BOTH of the years I referenced. Do you NOT remember the to-do about "light switch" vs. "lamp switch" for the minibots in 2011? You could literally buy the same part from two different vendors, and one would be legal and one would not because one sold it as a lamp switch and the other as a light switch. The same went for "grip tape" and "stair tread" when applied to robot ramps in '07--same exact product, but the grip tape was ILLEGAL because it was "tape" and at that time, all tape was illegal except for electrical tape and labeling tape. I'm not making this up. (For the Minibots, even weld rod--aluminum stock--was briefly ruled illegal!)

The amount of sense the rule (or actually, the ruling) in the above cases makes (which in the referenced cases was roughly zero) is irrelevant. It's still the rule. And while most inspectors would agree that it makes no sense, and wouldn't understand the reasoning behind the rule, the GDC apparently didn't realize that--notice that those rules aren't really making much of a return.


Incidentally, the fact that the company is selling the product in question as being appropriate for weather stripping and insulating... and the same product as being appropriate for pool noodles... That's got me questioning their marketing, and their material. There are differences between weather stripping, insulating, and pool noodle materials.
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