Cheesecaking a Defensive Robot

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by Type

So I wouldn't be able to bring like a 5ft piece of aluminum then cut it down to like 3ft and 2ft? It may be worth it to drill a bunch of holes into the lexan to cut down the weight even more.

You can cut and drill into it all you want, you just have to do that on-site and on-the-weekend-of. You can bring in all the COTS materials you can fit into your pit, but that's the rub - it's all COTS. By technical definition, once a product is past "[an] unaltered, unmodified state [from point of purchase]," it's no longer a COTS part and would be part of your withholding allowance. Arguably, no one is going to ask for an invoice for each piece of metal you brought in, but if it's obviously already been cut you might be inviting a few questions from an RI.