[Ken Patton]

We brought our mostly-assembled practice robot to GLR. It sat in my truck. On multiple occasions we went out to the truck and "harvested" parts from the spare robot. In every single instance the parts we used were (1)fabricated before the ship date or were off-the-shelf components, and (2)used only after they were fully disassembled down to individual pieces.

In one match, we blew a tire innertube. We took a complete wheel/tire assembly from the spare robot, fully disassembled it down to individual parts, and used the tube and tire tread on the competition robot. Even though the wheel/tire was identical to that on our competition robot, and it had been built up before the ship date, I stood there and watched our students tear it down to the individual parts.

I think in doing this we followed the letter and intent of the rules. Was there a bunch of non-value-added-assembly-and-disassembly? Yes.

I don't think there should be a problem with bringing a fully assembled spare robot to the comp, as long as the parts are disassembled for use.

Ken