High Viscosity Differential Oil Thread

I just thought I'd share something that has happened in the last week.

I personally know two real cubers (at least I consider them cubers), both have stickerless Dayan Zhanchis. They both use F2L and one is definitely faster than me. I met up with them on Tuesday and we swapped some cubes around for the week. I let them borrow my stickered white Dayan Zhanchi, which I was curious why they wanted that, and I got to play with other types of cubes I don't own - at least right now. I met up with them again today to return cubes. They were reluctant to give me my cube back; I found out that their Zhanchis' performance paled against mine. I asked them what lube they used and they responded, "Silicone spray, why what do you use? Your cube is like perfect." This put a smile on my face - I told them Traxxas Oil. They asked me to lube their cubes over the weekend.

Now that I got the chance to test out their Zhanchis, I realized that is was not all the lube. The cubes really needed to be cleaned, but the lube really does make a difference. Thank you guys so much.
 
But suppose the cube feels slower after some time. Since 30k dries faster than 50k, would I have to clean the whole cube and lube it again, if I apply 50k for core and 30k for pieces?
 
Neither of them dries up all that quickly. But I would say every 2 times you clean out the pieces, clean out the core too. Something like every month or so between core cleanings if you cube a lot. That's for 30k.

If you can afford it though definitely get 50k and 30k. 50k is indeed better on the core.
 
(I THINK)lubix is 100% dimethicone which is relatively cheap, it is used in hair products, food etc, lubix is so expensive and dimethicone is so cheap.
PLEASE don't yell at me if i'm wrong- which i probably am.
It's pure silicone differential oil. A popular guess is that it's 50k differential oil; my personal guess is that it is a 1:1 mixture of 50k and 30k diff oil making it ~43K differential oil.

Which is cheap. Lubix is a brand and if you care only about price (which I think you should) it's basically a rip off as they profit off people not knowing any better.
 
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What is the cheapest trusted site where I could buy 30k and/or 50k wt differential oil? I've noticed a few on this thread, and have a few of my own, but was just wondering if there are any sites that maybe the majority of cubers buy from nowadays.
 
What is the cheapest trusted site where I could buy 30k and/or 50k wt differential oil? I've noticed a few on this thread, and have a few of my own, but was just wondering if there are any sites that maybe the majority of cubers buy from nowadays.

There's always Amazon. They sell Traxxas and other differential oil. I know that for sure. And I'm guessing you could probably try to find some on Home Depot, Lowes, or some auto shop but that's just a guess.
 
some background:
--kinda new to cubing, pb still above 24sec
--i've only used rubik's brand with vaseline
--i'm decent enough at learning from youtube and building things

sooo....
after a bunch of research i've ordered a diy 57mm zhanchi, and i'll pick up 50k and 30k diff oil today.

however, i have no experience with proper cube lubrication.
i've found tons of legit-seeming instructional videos for lubix, jigaloo, crc, maru, etc but none yet for diff oil.
i want to make sure to put the right amounts on and use a good procedure, so now for the actual question:

are there any 'golden standard' instructional videos that have been tested and are correct, esp for judging amounts of 50; and 30k to put in various places?
 
I didn't watch the whole video, but I can tell, I put way less in my cubes and they work good. I use 30k diff oil everywhere and I main a weilong at the moment. The way I do it : I use a tooth stick, I put some oil on a plastic board and scrape the surface of it with the stick so I have a little drop at the end of my stick. Then I use this little drop for each edge of my cube ( I usually only do 4-6 edges ). Then I work it out for a while add 2 drops of maru lube inside it, do a few solves and let it rest for a while. Once in a while I do the whole thing and unmount the core, clean up the pieces with paper, and lube screws / washers.

Also, I find that overlubing screws and washers is way worse than overlubing the pieces ( if you overlube the pieces you can just take a few out, completely wipe off the oil, work it out a bit and do it again until it gets good ), but if the core is over lube you definitely have a gummy sluggish cube and you need to unmount it again to clean it. So for the cube I found something that works good for me, I just put a few drops on a piece of toilet paper, and just slightly pass it on the parts I want to lube, so that I only leave a thin layer of oil.

In anyway, this thing really works like salt, better not enough than too much. If it isn't enough, you can always add more, it's always more work to remove it.
 
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