Cube Help

[alexc]

I put some sand into my cube. I heard from several people that it helps for making it loose and wearing down the cube. But, besides maybe slightly looser, it didn't help much. And all the maintenance getting the sand out is a pain. I really want to work on getting my LL algs down to about 2.5 seconds each, but I need a really good cube first. My current one is okay, but it still gets stuck a lot if I try to go as fast as possible. Can someone tell me how I should prepare my cube so that it doesn't get stuck very often and how to make it really loose. Going a little off topic, how should I prepare a OH cube?

 

[Lofty]

All I have is one good OH cube and one bad OH cube and no two hand cube lol. To lessen the times it gets stuck is just practice pretty much. To prepare a OH cube if you have a diy loosen the tension if you don't just turn it a lot.
It would prob be best to do maintenance like sand and stuff when it has no stickers then you can just wash it..

 

[alexc]

It would prob be best to do maintenance like sand and stuff when it has no stickers then you can just wash it..

I did that to my DIY, it helped a little, but I'm just going to do some vigorous turning to loosen it up from now on.