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Originally Posted by Steve W

If they get it from another team they did not make it therefore it is not legal?

If a team comes to an event with an extra legal arm and sees a team without one, can they give it to them to improve the other team? Or if a team has a prebuilt Dewalt with , say a globe motor ready to go, can they give it to another team?

Correct its illegal. The spare part rule is that you have can have identiacal parts and as the rule stated it has to be same as the part on the robot. But you can brig raw material and build a part from sratch at the competition which can be catogarized as an upgrade which is what the unknown team wants to do. It will give this entire assembeled part to a team which will be an upgrade. Which is illegal. What the team could do is give the drawings for the part and the team can build it at the compeition. This has been in effect for the past couple of years now. Its nothing new.

Originally Posted by Shankar M

If you were to assume that this were illegal, could GREAT stories like this exist. Granted this teams is not attending the Championship, they are still only trying to help out another team here. They are not after recognition, they simply happen to have an extra grabber lying around somewhere that they are not going to use. They hope that it will find a better home with someone else at Championships. Surely I don't think it would be FIRST's intention to stop things like this from happening.

What team 33 did was GP and its a different circumstance. Technically it is illegal for a team to give a functional component/system to another team. Basically what how you could interpret that is "oh my teams robot broke and wont work for the rest of the competition, maybe i can as 254 and i can use their spare robot for the rest of the comp." I am just saying, I'm not going to say if 33 did the right thing or not, of course its gracious and we should help out each other. The question is whether its the right thing to do.