R22 and previous year's designs

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Originally Posted by Bob Steele

You cannot EVER use a fabricated part from another robot. Even if you alter it.
It is only an altered design that you can use.

But, I think if you had an arm made of a long piece of square tube on a previous robot, you could still use it as square tube, provided you cut off the portions you modified, and were no longer part of the raw material (the ends).

But i believe the point you are trying to make is still absolutely correct, you can't take an old gear box and just replace the gears with those of a different ratio, but the same center distance. You can reuse the gears, but you must make a new box to hold them from a different design.