R68: One and only one compressor

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by mwmac

First, in the event that a team suffers a complete failure of the robot compressor would you disallow them from replacing it with a like for like unmodified compressor from the spare parts station or from their own parts drawer?

Originally Posted by EricH

I highly doubt that! Spare parts are specifically permitted.

The tangential issue of spare parts under R68 is also a bit complicated (and has been discussed in the context of previous years rules).

As the relevant rules are mostly unchanged, my contention remains that assuming you can bypass part quantity limits to install a spare (this is clearly past and present practice regarding motors, for example), there is uncertainty as to whether air already legally stored in the tanks ceases to comply with R68, and thus R24.

Basically: if you are entitled to bypass the R68 limit of 1 to install a spare compressor, what necessarily prohibits you from bypassing the same limit as a result of the same act to use the air supplied by the first one? It's the same clause of the same rule, and yet to prohibit the air would be to enforce and overlook it simultaneously.