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Originally Posted by Greg Needel
The way that I would interpret this is that the gearbox as a whole is a COT as it is sold as a single item, regardless of the fact that it comes disassembled.
The assembly note in R27 deals with the assembly of more then one cots, or the assembly of raw/fabricated materials and cots. So if you were to assemble your AM shifters and put them on a test robot you would be fine to use them on your competition robot as long as they are placed on a new chassis and are un-modified as they are a single COT.
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FYI: COTS stands for Commercial Off The Shelf, it is not plural and can't be referred to as something.
IE:
Items available from commercial suppliers are COTS items.
An item available from a commercial supplier is a COTS item.
I appologize for being a stickler, but I give the folks I work with a hard time when they do this as well.