Ok guys, like a lot of people I find my LunHui a bit too locky with the torpedoes in and too poppy without them. Something about the feel of the cube didn't seem right to me so I did some investigating and here's what I found.
I took an edge at random and looked closely at it and I noticed the torpedo wasn't sitting straight:
As you can see, the torpedo isn't level. I checked another to see if it was just me not fitting it properly and that was also crooked:
I set it with it's corner pieces and here's how much the crookedness affects the way the pieces sit:
There's at least a millimetre difference between the two sides, so I took the edges apart and here's what I found:
It seems the peg hole interferes with the sitting of the torpedo. On closer inspection of the torpedo I found it has a difference in the width of the either side of the bottom tab:
Fine, I thought, I'll turn it around. This is how it sits when turned around:
Unfortunately the edge halves aren't mirrors of each other, which ever way you put the torpedo one peg hole will interfere with it. So the only solution is to trim the corner of the wider part of the tab:
This should make the torpedoes sit level and even up the feel of the cube. A simple mod that could make a big difference.
EDIT: This Mod is purely for the LunHui, DaYan have changed the design of the torpedo for the ZhanChi so this is not an issue for that cube, and as Lubix designed the Fusion torpedos specifically for the GuHong and LingYun, I can't see any problem there.
I took an edge at random and looked closely at it and I noticed the torpedo wasn't sitting straight:
As you can see, the torpedo isn't level. I checked another to see if it was just me not fitting it properly and that was also crooked:
I set it with it's corner pieces and here's how much the crookedness affects the way the pieces sit:
There's at least a millimetre difference between the two sides, so I took the edges apart and here's what I found:
It seems the peg hole interferes with the sitting of the torpedo. On closer inspection of the torpedo I found it has a difference in the width of the either side of the bottom tab:
Fine, I thought, I'll turn it around. This is how it sits when turned around:
Unfortunately the edge halves aren't mirrors of each other, which ever way you put the torpedo one peg hole will interfere with it. So the only solution is to trim the corner of the wider part of the tab:
This should make the torpedoes sit level and even up the feel of the cube. A simple mod that could make a big difference.
EDIT: This Mod is purely for the LunHui, DaYan have changed the design of the torpedo for the ZhanChi so this is not an issue for that cube, and as Lubix designed the Fusion torpedos specifically for the GuHong and LingYun, I can't see any problem there.
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Does it perform better now?
