[Help Thread] Is my cube / puzzle a dud?

StrideGd said:
im still confused
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leven Williams told you to buy stickers as leven Williams thought that your yuxin little magic Is stickered version. Stickers on the stickered version of the yuxin little magic are awful. However, as you have got it in stickerless, you don't need stickers. Just ignore that.
I'd really recommend you to get some magnets (4*2 n35) to magnetize your yuxin little magic. Also lube it with heavy lube.
 
I just got the new YJ Yusu v2m 4x4 and it's kinda crap. Covered in lube but dry; impossible to find a good tension; slow and unpleasant to turn. The slice moves are especially bad. It's much worse than the Mr. M. Anyone else have the Yusu?
 
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dudefaceguy said:
I just got the new YJ Yusu v2m 4x4 and it's kinda crap. Covered in lube but dry; impossible to find a good tension; slow and unpleasant to turn. The slice moves are especially bad. It's much worse than the Mr. M. Anyone else have the Yusu?
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I have heard that the mr.m is even better than the qiyi thunderclap mini. it is the best budget 4x4 and the best puzzle of mr.m series.
how often does the YJ Yusu v2m 4x4 pop?
 
Fukuoka Kengo James said:
I have heard that the mr.m is even better than the qiyi thunderclap mini. it is the best budget 4x4 and the best puzzle of mr.m series.
how often does the YJ Yusu v2m 4x4 pop?
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It has never actually popped into pieces because I stopped turning, but it has seriously deformed and the pieces would have been pushed out of place if I had continued turning. I don't know what to call this other than popping. It has done this about 1/4 of the times I tried to execute a center commutator. I did one solve and a few more experimental turns before getting frustrated and putting it in the "curbside giveaway" pile.

Yes, I have it on loose tensions, but anything tighter and it gets too hard to turn the inner slices. The magnet strength is much weaker than the friction between the pieces, which make the magnets entirely pointless. This is after DNM37.

Edit: yeah, I love the Mr. M.

Edit: I'm so screwed. I tried a center commutator and got a deforming lockup. So I tightened it a full turn, tried again, and this happened. Two commutators, two lockups, and one interior piece missing. I'm not really motivated to fix it.

https://imgur.com/a/iOOLB5u
 
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So earlier today I put the yellow GES nuts into my relatively new gan 356x for the first time. But I Just started to run into strange turning issues after doing some solves (It doesn't turn as smoothly and it feels like there's considerably more resistance, outside of the normal stuff of tightening a cube), and it has developed a very loud spring noise on pretty much every face. also, one of the M slices now makes a weird, really loud click sound whenever it turns, and for some reason it sort of fuses to another layer unless i force them apart
Is this a normal occurrence and i just need to get some lube? (I haven't put any in, as i'm relatively new and haven't really had the need) or is it a bigger problem?
 
Hi y'all

I'm a brand new cuber who likes to get into speedcubing. Therefor i bought a mf3rs2. But straight out of the box all my faces make a strange squeaking/ rattling noice (it sounds kind of like some sort of spring idk). Is this a common issue? Can i fix it or should i send it back?

Thanks! :)
 
NoobCuber04 said:
Hi y'all

I'm a brand new cuber who likes to get into speedcubing. Therefor i bought a mf3rs2. But straight out of the box all my faces make a strange squeaking/ rattling noice (it sounds kind of like some sort of spring idk). Is this a common issue? Can i fix it or should i send it back?

Thanks! :)
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Lube the springs
 
NoobCuber04 said:
Hi y'all

I'm a brand new cuber who likes to get into speedcubing. Therefor i bought a mf3rs2. But straight out of the box all my faces make a strange squeaking/ rattling noice (it sounds kind of like some sort of spring idk). Is this a common issue? Can i fix it or should i send it back?

Thanks! :)
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You can pop off the center caps and then carefully unscrew the screw, take the spring and washer out and lube them a little bit where the spring and washer contact eachother and the plastic. Then screw the screw back in. Spring noise should be gone. It's not hard to do, but you have to be careful you don't lose the little parts.
 
I'm having an issue with my GAN 356 X Stickerless with Numerical IPG. I received it May 8 or 9, but I'd have to check to see which one. Anyway, ootb I did not have any issues, except for what you'd expect for an ootb cube. I broke it in over the next few days, and was actually doing extremely well. My previous best single and avg were 18.15 and 23.67 respectively on a(n) (overlubed) Valk 3 Power M, but on the fifth solve on the GAN, I got a personal best of 16.55! The next day, I got 16.40, and then on day 3, I finally got my first ever sub-15 solve (14.18) and a really "good" (see thread "How good is "good"? for quote) average of 5, at 20.93 seconds! My times improved substantially, but after 1-2 weeks, they returned to (slightly better than) normal, and on June 1st, I had my first significant problem on the GAN X. The Green-White-Red corner popped, but not in the usual fashion. The cube was tensioned tightly enough that I wouldn't have any "normal" pops, but the corner stuck out from the stem, and fell on the ground. After examining it carefully, I found that It had done a very clean break from the stem. The only way this could have happened, to my knowledge, was if the parts used to make the piece had separated somehow. I was able to pop it back in, but I kept experiencing problems with it throughout the day. However, since it dropped while I was solving it, and since I was outdoors most of the day it fell on the concrete, that could have been a factor. I also did an unusually high number of solves for me (140+) that day, so that may have been the problem. I was also experiencing minor problems with the Green-Yellow-Red piece, but it only stuck out a little bit.
As time went on, the problem didn't progress all that much, but it did stay as it was.
However, about 1-2 weeks ago (in late July or early August) it started happening with another corner (the Green-White-Orange one) one.
One thing that I've noticed so far is that all the problem corners are on the green side, but it might just be a coincidence.

If any of you have ever had a problem like this, or know how I can fix the problem without buying replacement corners, please let me know.
In (not exactly) dire need of assistance,
WhiteKB
 
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