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Originally Posted by mechanicalbrain
I have two questions. Can you use pieces you have prepared for use? Like if i had a 1" by 2" piece of Plexiglas and i cut it in half in preparation for the robot is it OK? Also what are the rules on reusing pieces? I want to reuse the electrical enclosure that I'm making next year. Ill remove everything in the box even take the box apart into its components but i want to reuse it.
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<R21> MECHANISMS from robots entered in previous FIRST competitions may not be used.
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MECHANISM – A COTS or custom assembly of COMPONENTS that provide specific functionality on the robot. A MECHANISM can be disassembled (and then reassembled) into individual COMPONENTS without damage to the parts.
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So the electrical box would most likely have to be redone. As for cutting the plexiglass, cutting a 1x2 piece in half would sound eerily close to fabrication before Kickoff. (A few inches of plexiglass can be cut after Kickoff with ease. Now, if you had enough aluminum to cover the student parking lots of the University of South Carolina, and you had to cut it in half to get it to fit inside your storage area, that would probably be a different story. Anyone with good sense would know that you weren't fabricating in that case, you were housekeeping.)
(Actually, now that I think of it, you probably could get enough aluminum to cover the student parking lots to fit inside a storage closet uncut. There isn't that much anymore.
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