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Originally Posted by Team5860-Alex
Ok that helps however it raises a new question: does any permanent weight to your robot within the 6 hours count as bag weight. To specify put the 10lb item on before competition and just bring the 30lbs extra to put on later
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Short answer is no, you have a 30lb withholding allowance and that is the total it doesn't matter if you attach/put it all of it in the bag during your 6hrs, bring it all to the event or some combination of the two.
Now there are ways to maximize the amount of stuff you can add to the robot.
Anything that is fabricated during the access period and placed in the bag until the next access period or event does not count as part of your withholding allowance. Example: You open your bag for 2 hrs and during that time you have one group of students assembling the COTS transmission and motor while another group of students work on fabricating the other parts of the mechanism. You do not finish the fabrication in that first 2hrs so you place anything that you have fabricated along with that assembled motor and transmission in the bag. In your next 2hr period you finish fabricating parts for that mechanism but do not have time to attach the motor and transmission to it. So again you put it all in the bag. In your final 2hr access period you assemble the transmission and motor to the mechanism and attach it or do not attach it to the robot. None of those items would count against your withholding allowance.
The key to this is that any fabrication or assembly is done during an access period and is put in the bag between access periods or the event even if it is not in its finished state.
Another example. You have a 35 lb mechanism but 10 lbs is made up of COTS motors, transmissions and/or pneumatic cylinders. Before your access period of the event you remove those COTS parts and return them to their COTS state. That means returning them to their as purchased state. For something like a transmission that means total disassembly if it can not be purchased in an assembled state. For motors that means removing the terminals and pinion gear. For pneumatic cylinders that would mean removing the fittings, clevis on the rod and potentially reinstalling the pivot pin if it was removed. You now have 25lbs of fabricated parts and you can then assemble the COTS parts and attach them in your access time or at the event again with the requirement that if it is done in an access period that it goes in the bag between access periods and/or the event.