Alpha 2 became horrible

[Edward]

So like yeah...
I've had my a2 for about half a year now. It's been epic until about 2 days ago.
I assembled it, and I found it's popping, locking up, and is very slow.

I disassembled it again, cleaned it out, made sure the screws were straight on the core, and it's still this way.

I have no idea what could be wrong, nothing about the hardware has changed. Any have a fix to this? Has this happened to anyone?

 

[daniel0731ex]

all cubes detoriates, it's a normal phenominon (lol spelling).

apparently your A2 have reached the end of its life. But if you really wants to extend its lifetime for a bit more, you could try scratching marks with a knife on the tracks of the dge pieces.

 

[Edward]

all cubes detoriates, it's a normal phenominon (lol spelling).

apparently your A2 have reached the end of its life. But if you really wants to extend its lifetime for a bit more, you could try scratching marks with a knife on the tracks of the dge pieces.

Acctually I have tried that.
I really can't believe that only after 6 months my cube is dead. There must be something else here.

 

[FatBoyXPC]

Did you lube it again too? I've found that helps my popping and locking problems sometimes on my Type B. I just think you should hop on the bandwagon and buy an FII They're niiiiice. How often do you solve the A2?

 

[vrumanuk]

I put my cfy core in a few days ago (I thought you were doing the same?) and thus far really like the result; it's worth a try.

 

[Sa967St]

Yup. My first AII was amazing until I disassembled it after a few months to clean out the dust. I couldn't get it back to the tension I originally had it at afterwards.

 

[daniel0731ex]

believe me, cubes with tracks usually have a shorter lifespan than normal cubes. That's why the newer Alpha models no longer use tracks.

 

[Boxcarcrzy12]

I find all my cubes get to a certain point, when they're amazing, then when you go to relube, clean, or retension it, it F***s it all up, and is almost impossible to get back to the way it was.

 

[Edward]

Mmkay, so I did a bit of snooping into the internals, and what do you know, the springs are rusted, making them tighter and stuff. Guess it's over for me D:

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

believe me, cubes with tracks usually have a shorter lifespan than normal cubes. That's why the newer Alpha models no longer use tracks.

Here that, dayan??

 

[oprah62]

Hey I just got my a2 NIB from lightake today, and it's my first A2. Can you guys please tell me what to do and what not to do because I don't want it to become bad. The turning right now is mediocre, kind of tight. Thanks.
edit: Do I need to break it in a lot?

 

[Forte]

Mmkay, so I did a bit of snooping into the internals, and what do you know, the springs are rusted, making them tighter and stuff. Guess it's over for me D:

New spring buy?

 

[waffle=ijm]

Mmkay, so I did a bit of snooping into the internals, and what do you know, the springs are rusted, making them tighter and stuff. Guess it's over for me D:

New spring buy?

yes.