How do I make my Zhanchi smoother?

[Hunter]

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[Cubic]

Lube the core properly, there is a tutorial of crazybadcuber out there that tells you exactly how. Don't take out the washers, that will not help anything.

The CrazyBadCuber tutorial can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4paID_54lQ&feature=plcp

I am just a noob, but having watched this, disassembled my GuHong (very tentatively as I didin't want to screw up), retensioned and lubed it. Both were very easy to do. I didn't have any silicone 'grease' so I use a spray: http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Silicone+Spray/p21983 and the difference was incredible. My springs still grind a little, but I can live with it (though I will try to get something more like Lubix in the future).

I found that the screw looseness suggested by CrazyBadCuber was far too loose for me, so I had to retension, but even then I was very surprised at how much smoother the cube felt.

So, the good things to come out of this are:
1. I found a cheap source of silicone spray.
2. A much slicker cube.
3. I know I'm capable of assembling my own cube.

[Kattenvriendin]

Well done!! And yeah.. ability to reassemble is SO welcome. I actually take every cube I own apart (using tutorials of course) and put it back together again. Just in case the thing pops beyond something awful, because then I have done it before and I know I can do it

[zebra]

Did you do the half circle mod or whatever its called?