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Re: Too Legalistic Vs. Too Cavalier
Posted by Joe Ross at 2/2/2001 12:41 AM EST


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In Reply to: Too Legalistic Vs. Too Cavalier
Posted by Joe Johnson on 2/1/2001 8:09 PM EST:



: By the way, even if it is IDENTICAL, I still buy enough from SPI to make our robot. I am not too fussy about making sure that the spares get the EXACT ones from SPI. Also, I must confess that I don't keep two piles of stuff that is identical in every respect but that one pile came in boxes with SPI on their labels.

This is just about what we do. Seeing as how we often don't know what we need until we need it, we buy a lot of stuff locally and then order the part from SPI. If the two parts are identical than we use the local stuff and keep the SPI stuff in the corner. If they aren't identical, we start using the stuff we purchased locally and replace it with the SPI stuff when we get a chance.

We started doing this one year when FIRST had a ruling that said something similar, and haven't looked back.


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