For technicality's sake, does maintenance on a CNC count in the 10-hour FIX-IT window?
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there was no motion but the screen flashed "ERROR 1801". After several phone calls and an exhaustive search for the manuals
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They may have considered however long this took as "CNC maintenance". If it took 1.5 hrs to ensure the CNC wasn't broken, then perhaps Redateam is within the rules. Their real-life deadline was 5pm on Saturday, which they met, so I would be inclinded to let this slide given the fact that one may not consider maintenance as part of a FIX-IT window. Since there is no rule describing tool maintenance in regards to the build season or FIX-IT windows (please correct me if I'm wrong, this is from memory) then they are technically legal.
Of course, one may argue that this was not tool maintenance since eventually the actual problem was with coded design and not the machine itself. This goes back to the ethical intent vs. actual behavior argument I've heard so much at work, in which intent usually doesn't matter.
Very interesting scenario.