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Originally Posted by team1102a
An arm is an assembly, not a part.
It would have to be diassembled to be brought in.
If it was not built during a fix-it window, any drilloing, cutting, etc would have to be redone from raw stock.
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Not necessarily. The violation here is that the totality of the "spare parts" exceed the 25 pound limit that the team is allowed to bring to the event. The fact that the arm is an assembly is not a violation. Under the 2005 rules, the arm would be considered a "fabricated item" (see "Section 5.2 - Definitions" of the rules). As such, it may be brought to the event intact, as an assembled whole, as long as it - along with all other fabricated items - does not exceed a total weight of 25 pounds (see Rule <R24>).
-dave