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Re: Help me find evidence to support the use of hook and loop

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Originally Posted by Oblarg View Post
I will state again that if the pragmatic effect of this rule is that functionally-equivalent products from different brands have differing legality, and so teams who didn't happen to purchase the right brand of velcro are in violation of the rule, then it is a bad rule and should be changed.
You could say the same thing about pneumatic solenoids or pressure regulators or motors that are similar to legal motors but not on the list, or fans, or, or, or. That's why we have rules that define what is and isn't legal. The goal IMO is to provide a specification for what is legal and have teams figure out if the material they want to use is legal within the rules. Velcro happens to be this year's tricky item, but i would suspect most (>75%) teams have local sources of velcro that are legal and local sources of velcro that aren't.

I would expect to find legal velcro at fabric/sewing stores, and possibly at home stores, and illegal velcro certainly in both.
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