Dom
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My Aosu, Yuxin Blue and Meiyu were all good puzzles, each with their own pros and cons. Buy I have been feeling like there's gotta be a better way to design a 4x4. With the release of the Wuque far in the futurr, I decided I needed to take actions into my own hands. I decided it was time to do some modding. The Meiyu seemed like an easy puzzle to put some Florian holes in. I wanted to further improve forward and reverse corner cutting. I saw where it was catching, and decided I knew where to cut. Here's my journey.
First I shaved a little bit off the inside corners of the centers with a file and sand paper. If you look close, you can see.
Reverse corner cutting greatly improved, but I still noticed it catching on the other pieces. I also decided that I could shave more off the inner corner of the centers. Since the mechanism for the Meiyu is different, it doesn't need little posts that catch on the inner corner of the centers to keep it aligned properly. So that means I can shave off as much as I want, right? Here's where I cut:
It took a long, long time. Looks awesome. I took some pictures.
Notice that since the outer corners of the centers were already rounded, the Florian holes on the inside centers made them look like a lemon shape.
It was better, but still catching. It seemed to be catching on other places now. And it seemed to be catching on those other corners on the centers.
So I cut them off.
Yeah. Now the centers are almost completely round!
Uh, but although it looks cool, it is catching even more.
The catching was bothering me and the puzzle seemed sluggish, so I decided that the strong springs needed to be swapped out for Maru Soft Springs.
This made it turn way better, but it also made the catching more apparent.
Then this happened:
It was at this point that I admitted to myself that I had ruined my puzzle.
So I figured "what have I got to lose?!"
And I took it apart for the 100th time and noticed that some of the pieces were catching on the corners of the INTERNAL center pieces. So I shaved off a tiny bit:
That actually helped. So here's my verdict:
Everything I did was wrong except:
The spring swap
The slight Florian mod of the inside corners of the centers
The slight mod of the corners of the INTERNAL center pieces.
Also..... I just really need a Wuque
Thoughts?
First I shaved a little bit off the inside corners of the centers with a file and sand paper. If you look close, you can see.
Reverse corner cutting greatly improved, but I still noticed it catching on the other pieces. I also decided that I could shave more off the inner corner of the centers. Since the mechanism for the Meiyu is different, it doesn't need little posts that catch on the inner corner of the centers to keep it aligned properly. So that means I can shave off as much as I want, right? Here's where I cut:
It took a long, long time. Looks awesome. I took some pictures.
Notice that since the outer corners of the centers were already rounded, the Florian holes on the inside centers made them look like a lemon shape.
It was better, but still catching. It seemed to be catching on other places now. And it seemed to be catching on those other corners on the centers.
So I cut them off.
Yeah. Now the centers are almost completely round!
Uh, but although it looks cool, it is catching even more.
The catching was bothering me and the puzzle seemed sluggish, so I decided that the strong springs needed to be swapped out for Maru Soft Springs.
This made it turn way better, but it also made the catching more apparent.
Then this happened:
It was at this point that I admitted to myself that I had ruined my puzzle.
So I figured "what have I got to lose?!"
And I took it apart for the 100th time and noticed that some of the pieces were catching on the corners of the INTERNAL center pieces. So I shaved off a tiny bit:
That actually helped. So here's my verdict:
Everything I did was wrong except:
The spring swap
The slight Florian mod of the inside corners of the centers
The slight mod of the corners of the INTERNAL center pieces.
Also..... I just really need a Wuque
Thoughts?
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