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Re: eBay parts?
An important point is that as long as the COTS part is generally available from some established vendor somewhere, then it doesn't matter who you actually acquire the part from.
It's only an issue if the part is unique, of limited non-replenishable quantity, not available to a significant number of other teams, that we could run into issues.
Who you purchase a COTS part from (or what dumpster we may dig a discarded COTS part out of) doesn't matter, as long as the same part is also generally available to all teams from some other reliable vendor like McMaster-Carr.
So, if you find bearings on ebay that are also sold by McMaster, then you are good.
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Last edited by Mark McLeod : 02-06-2016 at 10:48.
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