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Unread 08-12-2004, 17:54
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Re: YMTC: Can teams start cutting metal for 2005?

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Originally Posted by Hieb
My own $.02 - What is your purpose for cutting the pieces before the season starts? If it is a matter of saving space in your storage area or for use on a prototype, more power to you. If, as it seems from the original question, it is to gain an advantage over other teams by removing some of your fabrication work from the build season, that sounds like a violation of the rules and the spirit of FIRST.
This is a good point. So maybe fabrication is "cutting material with intent to use for a specific purpose on a robot" and such an action would render that piece of material "fabricated" and it would no longer be raw. But size reduction for storage purposes would keep the material defined as raw. I'm liking this concept.
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