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Originally Posted by xmaskid96
It really isn't fabricated and all we would be doing to it is changing the gear ratios and position. Is this legal?
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Whoa. Big bag of misconceptions here. First you have to classify them!
#1: These were shipped unassembled. Assembly makes them Fabricated Items. (1 whack with the electronic manual for not knowing that and assuming they aren't fabricated items)
#2: These are COTS, discontinued (AndyMark sold them for a couple of years after that). (1 piece of knowledge that you didn't have)
#3: These WERE KOP parts, meaning they are still KOP parts. (1 trip to read the Manual)
#4: You are making a change to the gearbox, making it a Fabricated Item within the current build season.
To me... #4 is the important item. You're taking a COTS "Fabricated Item" (#2 and #1) that is accounted for by R9B (#3) and making a significant modification. This makes it a Fabricated Item for the 2015 season, that gets its cost accounting from KOP and the current value of any gearing/shaft changes.
tl;dr: It's legal, but not for the reasons you're thinking (see below). That is my opinion, your LRI and/or the GDC may have another opinion, and theirs is the one that matters. You may choose to ask Q&A something like "We have a gearbox from a previous KOP. It is no longer COTS as a new item. We are planning to modify it. Does this make it a Fabricated Item and thus legal for 2015, and if so how do we deal with the cost accounting?"
That being said, your use of R12 and R13 is a red herring. Take a close look at R12C's wording again, as well as the blue box--this doesn't fit that (at least, I think that's what you're referring to). R13 does not apply at all because you're dealing with a KOP/COTS part. You really wanted the COTS definition and the KOP definition (and the definition of Fabricated Item) from Section 6.