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Originally Posted by FIRST rule R09
During the six week period following Kickoff: You may fabricate spare parts for replacement
purposes of items on your robot as long as they are exact replacements for parts on the robot you
shipped to the event. They must be brought to the event in a completely disassembled state as
individual components (no bolt-on assemblies).
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I personally disagree with this rule in some senses. Our team created 4 tracks for our robot incase we broke or something horrible happened. So this rule would state that we would have to take apart our 2 spare tracks?
Our 1 track
I don't know about you but that just isn't going to happen it took DAYS to put together and if we broke our track match 1 we would they have a robot that didn't work and we could go home on thursday. The rules are stated for someone to CHANGE a complete arm, drive system, or any other part (IMHO); replacement parts should not be a problem. If 1 team can make a second robot in 6 weeks whats the problem with them using it for parts on the robot they shipped? Some things that are created in the 6 weeks just cannot be remade to work in a couple hours.
Well thats my 2cents on this matter