Today I had a surprising discovery. I found my Type D screw I lost last week!
A week ago on Tuesday I was in an Asian Super Market. I was playing with my cube on one side where my old Type A core was broken the screw kept on coming out of the core. I was being real dumb and didn't put the center cap on. So eventually my screw was at the point where it was at the top of the screw hole thingy in the center piece. I was turning the cube and then my
entire top layer came out! I mean all top layer cubies, the center piece, the screw, and the spring. I found all the pieces except the screw in like 20 seconds. Where was it? I looked for like 20 minutes between crates, under shelves, but couldn't find it
.
Okay so today I went back to the same Super Market and decided to look for the screw again because I had nothing better to do. After like 10 minutes looking like a moron crouched down I found it! It was
behind a shelf, which really puzzles me. It's hard to explain, but it was in a place where it could not have naturally been when I popped my cube a week ago. I suppose someone was sweeping the floors and I put it there.
Okay so my old Type A core is broken so I couldn't use it. I used the Type D core instead and to my surprise the cube was pretty good! It seems that for the Type D core, the screws can't go all the way in compared to the old Type A core so the cube was pretty loose. It felt almost the same when I had an old Type A core. It turns a tiny bit faster but cut corners slightly worse (probably because I was a little loose). It also looks like it's going to pop but doesn't. I've only used it for like 2 minutes so I'm not sure how good it really is.
Also, is
this an
old Type A core?
I read someone post something on
www.masterthecube.com/forums and to my surprise he said
new Type A cores work better than the old ones in the Type A core Type D combo cube. He is the adminastrator and plans on selling the Type D Type A core combo cube... here is the quote:
I'm going to be stocking the new type A cores, I have personally tested about 20 of them and I am 100% sure they are better than the old type A core.
On a related note, I will be sold out of all DIY cubes for a small period of time, I need all of the $ I can collect to buy the new product, so the DIY cubes will have to wait. It may be a few weeks before they are back in stock, but it will be worth it.
http://masterthecube.com/forums/index.php?topic=1881.30
