Thanks for the quick reply, ok cool not as bad as i thought then, so i can still use the item in my orange gear but say the bracer armoring, could only find in another bracer item?

Tried to find an answer to this but couldnt find anything concrete... So is there no way to get rank 30 armoring and hilts/ barrels etc, on your orange gear? Ive spent weeks and millions of credits trying to put together my ideal look like im sure a lot of people have also done, then i run an op today and get a bracer with lv 69 mods in it, i take them out to put in my gear, and it says the armoring is pretty much stuck only being able to be in the bracer i got? So is there no way around this? Is this what all raiders do? Theyre forced to wear the gear they get from raids because of this? Or have i simply noobed something up and am missing some really obvious way around this, cheers guys