Would your rule permit purchasing a VP prop mechanism kit and assembling it?
Gary Hodson
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark F1diddler <f1diddler_at_yahoo.com>
To: Indoor_Construction <Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Oct 23, 2012 6:06 pm
Subject: [Indoor_Construction] Re: BOM vs BAM
--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "John Barker" <john.barker783_at_...> wrote:
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> The BMFA BOM rule got out of hand when people started trying to include exactly what you could use in terms of specific components such as fuselage booms, carbon 'D' boxes, propeller assemblies and so on. >>
I hope to avoid all that by simply defining BUILD to mean competitor performs all "attachment, gluing, connecting" of every piece of model to any other piece (wood, wire, paper, whatever) of model. Nothing you bought or otherwise obtained can be pre-glued, pre-attached, pre-connected, etc, even if the individual pieces were otherwise weighed, measured, cut, shaped for you.
The rules for each event already specify what materials are allowed in what classes, and no one has been complaining about others having unfair access to machine shops, unusual sources, etc. We only want to know that competitor built own model. In my definition, all this hinges around "adhesive" or "attachment" in every case so far, except individual carbon-formed components. Carbon-formed components should be allowed without regard to it being by nature a "pre-glued component," but even so, not allowed to be pre-attached to any OTHER component.
This is simple, doable, liberal, yet strict enough.
MB
Received on Tue Oct 23 2012 - 16:18:23 CEST
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