[Help Thread] Puzzle Setup / Tension Discussion

[Sub1Hour]

Usually gan is pretty good with sending replacement parts. My friend got the X on pre-order and when it came with a defective core gan responded very quickly and all they needed were pictures and boom, replacement core.

 

[Cube Tribe]

Definitely defective. Hope you get a replacement.

Usually gan is pretty good with sending replacement parts. My friend got the X on pre-order and when it came with a defective core gan responded very quickly and all they needed were pictures and boom, replacement core.

There's only one problem lol, for example I live in a country where cubing isn't recognized and no cube shops are available here, I have to ship it to a third party company then the company will send it to a courier company to me, asking for a replacement means going through 4 stages for me: Asking gan, Courier company, Third party company and Original company unlike people who just go and send it to gan and get it back...

 

[brododragon]

There's only one problem lol, for example I live in a country where cubing isn't recognized and no cube shops are available here, I have to ship it to a third party company then the company will send it to a courier company to me, asking for a replacement means going through 4 stages for me: Asking gan, Courier company, Third party company and Original company unlike people who just go and send it to gan and get it back...

Wait but your not @SolomonShawn...

 

[Cube Tribe]

Wait but your not @SolomonShawn...

I had a similar problem but not that bad lmao

 

[EvanTheCuber]

I just got A GAN 356 XS and I don't even know how to customize it.
How do you loosten the XS? Thanks

 

[MJS Cubing]

You should ask this in a one answer question thread.
Edit: Gan has the largest pamphlets for a reason

 

[asacuber]

So I have a valk 2 m, and it's general feeling is smooth and heavyish. I thought loosening would make it faster but when I loosened it by about ninety degrees, it's feeling suddenly became rather clacky, crunchy and a very weird loose sort of feeling. So I tightened it back and the feeling still persists, please help.

I've also seen somewhere that something like this can happen if your screwdriver isn't good for tensioning? Idk tho

 

[brododragon]

So I have a valk 2 m, and it's general feeling is smooth and heavyish. I thought loosening would make it faster but when I loosened it by about ninety degrees, it's feeling suddenly became rather clacky, crunchy and a very weird loose sort of feeling. So I tightened it back and the feeling still persists, please help.

I've also seen somewhere that something like this can happen if your screwdriver isn't good for tensioning? Idk tho

I think it's the lube.

 

[MJS Cubing]

Mines the same way. It's just the way the puzzle is, but it got better with some DNM-37.

 

[PizzaCuber]

I did the exact same thing, and now my balk is bad. I tried lubing it, didn’t work. And if I turn to fast the whole thing will just fall apart.

 

[Sub1Hour]

Okay guys, for some reason there are only 5 valks that I know of (probably a lot more then that but Im only sure of 5 existing) that have this setup. I was talking with my delegate about 2x2 hardware and I said that I like the Valk 2 but its just too slow, what he said next changed my life. "Have you tried the spring swap?" Swap your valk springs for MGC 2x2 springs and it will become much faster. Mine feels like an MGC but a little less hollow and more flexible. I main my spring swapped valk 2 alongside my mgc 2x2

 

[brododragon]

Okay guys, for some reason there are only 5 valks that I know of (probably a lot more then that but Im only sure of 5 existing) that have this setup. I was talking with my delegate about 2x2 hardware and I said that I like the Valk 2 but its just too slow, what he said next changed my life. "Have you tried the spring swap?" Swap your valk springs for MGC 2x2 springs and it will become much faster. Mine feels like an MGC but a little less hollow and more flexible. I main my spring swapped valk 2 alongside my mgc 2x2

Even MGC springs work wonders.

 

[PetrusQuber]

Tengyun V2 settings?
Just curious about this. I’m using magnet 3, 0.8 for centrepiece travel, and 0.5 for elasticity. 30 quarter screw revolutions. Pretty good, but I overshoot sometimes on OH. The Tengyun is a naturally pretty fast cube though.

 

[TomTheCuber101]

I'll put my preferred ones here when mine comes.

 

[cuber314159]

Strongest magnets, 0.6 elasticity and 1.0 centre piece level.

 

[Cubingcubecuber]

Magnets: 2
Hexagon: 0.6
Octagon: 0.5

 

[PetrusQuber]

Strongest magnets, 0.6 elasticity and 1.0 centre piece level.

Think you got it the wrong way round

 

[TomTheCuber101]

Okay so at the moment I have magnets on 3, springs on 1.0 and screws on 0.6, Really nice cube!

 

[PetrusQuber]

I changed my magnets back to 2 because of the awesome clicky feel

 

[TomTheCuber101]

I changed my magnets back to 2 because of the awesome clicky feel

I have mine on two now, I didn’t think I’d value being able to change the magnets but now it means I can have my OH and 3x3 main in one cube, magnets on one for OH and two for 3x3