Caring for your cube

[GAN CUBER]

Ya y?

 

[Nir1213]

Seriously? :confused: :?:rolleyes:

are u judging what people do to lube their cube? Seriously?

 

[GooseCuber]

I clean mine once
it starts feeling oily and relube it

 

[CFOP2020]

I commented on this post before, but I've changed a but since then. I don't really buy premium cubes anymore, but I wipe the cube out once to get stock lube out, and then I lube it once, lube it again when the lube dries out, continue this until the lube's become sluggish and gunky, and then buy new hardware

 

[povlhp]

With new cubes I do relative few solves before taking it apart, looking for plastic against plastic scratches.
Then it gets some lube. Either 100cSt (almost like water) or 1000 or 4000 cSt. I feel 1000 might speed slightly up, 4000 slow down slightly. 100cSt is to make things fast. I have 50k, but rarely use it. If I have noisy springs etc, I take the core apart and uses the 50k.
I find that lube lasts pretty long.
On my WRM maglev, I lubed both magnets, as some peopel complained about lots of black dirt from magnet rubbing against the screwhead.
I try to store cubes in the clear plastic boxes from ziicube, or in a bag/box.
Relubing/cleaning is done only if it looks quite dirty, or I want to have a new feel, or I notice too many scratches starting to appear on pieces.

 

[IsThatA4x4]

I just (without taking it apart) drop lube (lunar) in the cube whenever it feels dry (so usually once every 2 weeks). When it gets covered in dirt and gunk on the inside, I take it all apart, clean it, and re-lube it (so usually around once a month)

 

[Luke Solves Cubes]

Every month I thoroughly clean my cubes and every 3 weeks I lube my cubes.

 

[Garf]

If you use just a lube, like DNM-37 or Silk, then you’ll have to relube a lot and clean the cube more frequently. However, add some weight lube, like weight one, and now you have a cube that will stay fluent for longer than a month, and that fast lube won’t get eaten up by dust forming, especially if you store it in a space with no dust.
Using this logic, I have not cleaned my Tornado V2 for about 4 months, with it holding weight 3, DNM 37, Max Fleet and Command, and Mystic.

 

[AliceRobin]

Plastics and coatings may deteriorate with exposure to light, air, chemicals, time.

So I store good cubes in a dark and dry area (inside a velvety Gan bag inside my bedroom desk).

Storing plastic and rubber items in a basement or garage where chemicals and paints are stored would be suboptimal as the chemicals tend to slowly escape into the air.

Maybe avoid extreme temperature swings also.

So that's what needed to do? I wish I knew that before throwing away my last one.

 

[abunickabhi]

Hi peeps!
I posted a thread on this some while ago but that was just for learning to tension my cube. I think it's important to have a thread where anyone can just post how they take care of their cube. Anyone who visits please post one thing for their cube. The end goal is to have a place where everyone can learn to care for their cube and in the long run take good care of it.
I will start:
At the end of every month I take the cube to absolute pieces and give it a thorough clean in every nook and cranny.

Hope this helps!

I just setup my cubes and put them in a dry cabinet to save it from becoming bad.

Dry cabinets are suuuuuper useful in preserving cube and making them feel good even after a week.

 

[LBr]

My cube gets dusty v easily so I keep it in a closed box and also clean it out regularly. And obviously I lube it also

 

[Mikomancuber52]

some of you need to work on maintaining your cubes better \
I take mine apart and clean every piece once a month, I carry my cube in like a carry pouch but, it's probably cuz I have a Gan 11m Pro
and I don't want to ruin 60 dollars.
I use just the Gan magic lube.
Idk, suggestions taken on how to lube it, cube i just like drop some lube in it. Idk

 

[codacube]

Our black Labrador doesn't shed much, but I cannot tell you how many times I've found his hair between the edges. I'd like to say the hair in the cube slows me down substantially, but my problem is not his problem. I'm just slow and the hair just distracts me and makes a slight grinding sound.

I haven't wanted to break any of my cubes, so I haven't taken them apart to completely clean inside. (They are most likely a mess!) I do clean the hair out with canned air occasionally, but static electricity on the cube just sucks the hair back in. ;-)

 

[Jack Law]

to care for ur cube u put it in sand and then fire

 

[j727s]

i once put trombone lube in my wrm 2021 and filmed it
it was a terrible idea and made it smell bad, and then i washed it to get rid of the smell and now its rusting