Yes good point you can wash out or at least wipe it off.
3-in-1 silicone contains a heap of petro-chemicals, granted some plastics can survive some petro-chems and that's why we have mixed stories, one cuber loves petro-lube-product-A - while another cuber with a different type of plastic cube...
No worries, no flames from me :-)
Yeah I put 3-in-1 Silicone spray into my store bought cube, it seemed to work really well *first time*, made the cube fly - but maybe in the background it was doing harm. Mind you I also hate the smell of that stuff which lowers the fun factor.
Anyway, so many...
Thanks for those links and yes that looks like a mighty machine. I do wonder if it can handle all the heat in that box, if it has a good battery life, good support for drivers, future operating systems and will they be around for more than 3 or 5 years - but that isn't even my main concern...
Why A versus B?
Hardware? Is there anything better than a Mac?
Software?
My MacBook Pro has OSX which is built on top of BSD (think UNIX/Linux) and I have VMWare Fusion so I'm running WindowsXP and Windows7. The Mac also has the iPhone/iPad iOS dev kit and simulator.
I use them all...
Hey thanks, this reply really clarifies all that searching and researching I've been doing.
I had fallen into the trap if thinking "find the best (one and only) way" but there is no one and only way, many ways work, even oil at each end of the viscosity scale (but applied differently) - makes...
I'm seeing a lot of replies along the lines of:
"Leik dude you're wasting threads, there was one on this topic already back in 2009 and it's only got 483 posts, didn't you read it?" Ahm, well, no.
And if you search for hours like I have you find many contradictions.
Pure Silicone Oil - but at...
Hmm, neither, I reckon pure silicone "shock" oil is better than both of those.
Reading their FAQs - the Maplins is more like a grease so it's probably too "thick"? Doesn't say plastic safe so it probably isn't. The Halfords, at least says it's plastic safe but I wonder how much actual...
Australia's largest hobby store Hobbyco sell's pure silicone oil, a.k.a "shock or diff oil", and there are many other Aus. stores selling it BUT which viscosity ("thickness") should you buy - this is the question.
Many threads around here talk about 50,000wt BUT a WARNING that is NOT 50,000cps...
Here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jig-A-Loo it says they're banning the use of paint stripper and dry cleaning fluid (Tetrachloroethylene Methylene Chloride) in the use of cans because they're toxic BUT I don't believe Jig-a-loo will stop getting made, they'll just use substitute chemicals (as...
An interesting read but I respectfully disagree about waning interest :-)
I only ever watched NBL when Michael Jordan was playing - far from waning interest it generated interest in me and I dare say a host of others like me.
In Australia we have a super race horse - Black Cavier, probably the...
Hmm, language learning, interesting, I never thought of it that way but I think it's a fair point. And granted emersion certainly has it's part to play in recognition.
I guess my point was simply quality over quantity but quality and quantity is even better.
"Economy of movement" - sounds...
Edit: Total rewrite to make it more brief.
I'd get Lubix or any equivalent 100% silicone product first but failing that I'd CRC 808 over CRC Heavy Duty Silicone or Jig-a-loo - but why?
Well they all use LPG (liquid petroleum gas: propane, butane ...) as spray propellant - so that's nothing to...
I would not suggest hours and hours of practice! Sure practice is important but it's the way one practices that matters more than how many hours.
I'm not a guru cube solver, recently got into it, but I know from many years of guitar playing plus I live in a house full of musicians and I can see...
Great post WitEden.
Do you happen to know exactly what kind of plastic DaYan (or most popular makers) are using, I'm just trying to sort out my lube and I'm unwilling to blindly use Jigaloo (can't get it anyway) or CRC HDS because I believe they're both more for metal than for plastic, Maru...
Thanks dude, great find and a great post.
Dow Corning is a giant chemical maker, behind thousands of products we all know and use every day. Their "200 Fluid" is one of their polydimethlysiloxane "PDMS" silicone products.
If Bubba-loo is 100% PDMS and your cube is made from something like...
Hmmm, sounds a lot like my experience.
If it was me I'd pull that cube apart and wash everything in a mild detergent or soap, let's say baby soap, and warm water, dry everything thoroughly and worst case you might need new $2 stickers.
Or you can panic like I did and trash your cube...