How do I make my Zhanchi smoother?

[Hunter]

If you want to have the effect of taking out the washers, just cut the springs down a tiny bit.

However, I don't think it needs it, though.

 

[Ninja Storm]

Break the cube in. After only 20,000 solves, it's great.

 

[Hunter]

Only?!

*cries*


Lol, that's like half a year for me.

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Hahaha then cube more!

 

[Yuxuibbs]

Do basically the same thing as the video but make the box part the size of a zhanchi. Be very careful about how long you let it turn because it can and will melt the plastic. Don't go past ~1-2 sec (at low-med speed if your drill has speeds) for each face. I usually do white/yellow/red/orange/blue/green so some pieces can have a chance to cool off.

 

[Endgame]

That's cool. As long as the end of the spring doesn't get caught in the plastic.

I wonder what the inside of one of your center pieces looks like, just out of curiosity, without the lube and all, just to see it's current state and if any grinding of the spring has occurred in there.

I will PB you pictures when I'm retensioning

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Can you post them here?

I'd rather everyone sees it, for posterity sake also

 

[n00bcub3r]

Just Show The InSide Pictures for you

All are of Dayan ZhanChi

Spoiler: images

wat.

 

[Kattenvriendin]

wat.

Umm.. English please?

 

[Datak]

How long does it to break in a zhanchi

 

[Hunter]

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[Cubic]

Lube the core properly, there is a tutorial of crazybadcuber out there that tells you exactly how. Don't take out the washers, that will not help anything.

The CrazyBadCuber tutorial can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4paID_54lQ&feature=plcp

I am just a noob, but having watched this, disassembled my GuHong (very tentatively as I didin't want to screw up), retensioned and lubed it. Both were very easy to do. I didn't have any silicone 'grease' so I use a spray: http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Silicone+Spray/p21983 and the difference was incredible. My springs still grind a little, but I can live with it (though I will try to get something more like Lubix in the future).

I found that the screw looseness suggested by CrazyBadCuber was far too loose for me, so I had to retension, but even then I was very surprised at how much smoother the cube felt.

So, the good things to come out of this are:
1. I found a cheap source of silicone spray.
2. A much slicker cube.
3. I know I'm capable of assembling my own cube.

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Well done!! And yeah.. ability to reassemble is SO welcome. I actually take every cube I own apart (using tutorials of course) and put it back together again. Just in case the thing pops beyond something awful, because then I have done it before and I know I can do it

 

[zebra]

Did you do the half circle mod or whatever its called?