[Jones571]

Originally Posted by dtengineering

I suggest that you sumit this to the Q&A before spending money on a new set of skis.

While you've got some good advice from some really experienced FIRSTers, here, and I certainly see where they are coming from, I'd like to suggest a slightly different take on the issue.

I suggest the skis that you have used are not a component, but a raw material. "Old skis", that need to be cut, drilled, and shaped, like any other raw material may well be sufficiently generic that the GDC would consider them as being available to any team. While other teams may not have access to your specific skis, they have access to others that are substantially similar. You gain no advantage by using old skis.

So I don't necessarily disagree with the advice that you've been given, but there may be more than one way to consider the problem. Either way, new skis are definitely legal, and only the Q&A forums can give you a clairification on the the old skis that you can count on for inspection.

Good job of recycling, though. I hope you can use them!

Jason

Interesting way to look at as you could say the ski is used only for it's "material" and that this material is a COTS and the ski would now fall under.

FABRICATED ITEM – Any COMPONENT or MECHANISM that has been altered, built, cast, constructed, concocted, created, cut, heat treated, machined, manufactured, modified, painted, produced, surface coated, or conjured partially or completely into the final form in which it will be used on the ROBOT.

I agree it is well worth having your team ask in Q&A if you have vested a fair bit of time and strategy into it.