[Japper]

Thanks for the reply....

If I were to get a copy of the BOM of the assembly and price this out individually and then build it myself per those parts rather than use the donated assembly, I could then cost this per the individual material costs couldn't I?

This would in effect be building it from scratch, which I am not opposed to doing as I would have to customize it anyway...

Another catch in the rules that I am not sure of is, I might want to buy metal from a local supplier and they may or may not offer material like this via mail order, so these materials would not be necessarily available to anyone, anywhere in the country. How do other teams deal with this, do they only buy metal and nuts and bolts from a catalog sales entity? Or is this not an issue?

What about parts that we as a team fabricate from raw goods, obviously we need to keep track of material costs but do we need to only account for labor charges if someone other than a mentor or member of the team performs the work?

Please advise and Thanks again!