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Originally Posted by sanddrag
Thank you. That's the basis I was originally going off of but just couldn't find.
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The rules explicitly permit recycling of parts from previous year's robots as can be seen in rules R22 and R24 which I quote:
<R22> Individual COMPONENTS from robots entered in previous FIRST competitions may be used on 2006 robots IF they satisfy ALL of the rules associated with materials/parts use for the 2006 FIRST Robotics Competition.
<R24> Individual COMPONENTS retrieved from previous robots and used on 2006 robots must have their undepreciated cost included in the 2006 robot cost accounting, and applied to the overall cost limits.
The only thing that makes these parts illegal is the fact they are not currently available as COTS items. At least I don't think they are. They were at one time available as spares. They might still be available, in which case they are legal parts. They were certainly COTS items when they were originally obtained.
Knowing the way our parts storage area gets around week 4 of build. It would be entirely possible for somebody to get confused about which year a part was from. In addition, a team might not be aware that the parts are no longer available and therefore no longer COTS, especially if there is no institutional memory as to where the parts came from.
Not saying it's right, just understandable.