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Teams may use commercially available fastener hardware on their Robot. Examples include (but are not limited to):

Screws, nuts, rivets

Hinges, pins, rod ends, threaded rods, hose clamps

Ancillary fastener accessories, such as washers or spacers

Adhesives such as epoxy, glue, or tape (when used to join together two parts)

If the primary function of the part is not “fastening”, then <VUR5>, <VUR6>, and/or <VUR7> take precedence over this rule. Illegal examples include (but are not limited to):

A prefabricated non-VEX wheel, even though it may technically connect tread to a shaft

80/20 extrusion; other items get “fastened to it”, it is not the part doing the “fastening”

Using grip tape to improve wheel traction