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Wow - FIRST season must be starting soon! Looks like the emotion and commotion have arrived just in time. As Kenny posted earlier, some of the posts in this thread are getting pretty heated - not mentioning any names, but as a friendly reminder - please take a moment and think about what and how you are posting. We (Chiefdelphi) encourage open and civil discussion, everyone has a right to an opinion, just stay within the boundaries of common courtesy when expressing yourselves.
My vote was no, but I assumed you meant cutting metal to produce a finished part. Raw stock purchased and then cut to stack or rack easier is not a finished part. The reason for cutting it was to handle and store it - not to make it to a finished part size. This is entirely different in that the rationale for cutting it wasn't to give me an advantage in building the robot.
Sometimes certain raw material purchases are less expensive in larger sizes, there is no competitive advantage in cutting it to smaller pieces.
What disturbs me most about this is that there seems to be a dark undertone (just short of accusations) about some posts. Does gracious professionalism exist anymore, or has mistrust and animosity displaced it as normal behavior? Perhaps that is for another thread.