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Originally Posted by CalTran
You can cut and drill into it all you want, you just have to do that on-site and on-the-weekend-of. You can bring in all the COTS materials you can fit into your pit, but that's the rub - it's all COTS. By technical definition, once a product is past "[an] unaltered, unmodified state [from point of purchase]," it's no longer a COTS part and would be part of your withholding allowance. Arguably, no one is going to ask for an invoice for each piece of metal you brought in, but if it's obviously already been cut you might be inviting a few questions from an RI.
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Actually there is a blue box in section 4.1 of the game manual that specifically deals with items that are neither COTS nor fabricated parts and the example is a 20 foot piece of raw material that has been cut to 5 foot lengths for ease of transport.