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Originally Posted by Mike Schreiber

At what point is it just stock / scrap? If you had a drawer of pneumatic tubing not attached to anything that was left over from a scrapped robot disassembled ages ago (as I'm sure hundreds of teams have) and you found a piece that was the perfect length, by the book you're required to modify it in some way so that it was fabricated during the build season? Or does the very act of assembling mean it's modified, as it does with bringing in COTS components?

By the book, yes, there does need to be some modification to make it "fabricated after kickoff". What that modification is depends on you. I mean, technically, if you mark it with a sharpie you've added ink to it which is a modification. Or, if you re-square the ends then you've certainly modified it.

Speaking to the definitions, both stock and scrap would need to be modified after kickoff to be used on the robot. Cut the stock to length--boom, modified. Cut the scrap to shape--boom, modified.