cube4you A and D type diy comparison

[uni8wizard2]

So type D is overall the best of four chinese types? Do you still preffer that you buy type A with type D to try it and to see which is better for you or to combine them?

 

[martijn_cube]

if yoou have the money, buy 2x type A and 2x type D. this way you can use them both the normal way, and use 2 to combine. if you have less money try to buy one of each. some people like the type A more and some type D, so it's difficult to say. you should try as much different types i think.

 

[badmephisto]

ok here are my thoughts, i ordered 4 D's just recently. I didnt read any posts of this thread yet so that it doesnt skew my opinion.

type D's feel MUCH more stable in my hands and it feels like they cant pop. Im not even sure if I had one pop on me yet. And yet, they are very smooth to slow turning. They are a little louder and are a little more prone to small lock ups. Somehow the type A's lock up a little less, but when they do its somehow much much worse, and almost always results in a major pop.

They just feel a little more stiff, clickier, and much more stable.
Right now I switched from using type A's and my "main" cube right now is a D, and I'm loving it.

 

[Stefan]

Today I received some A and D cubes from cubefans.com. The D's already feel promising after straightening the screws. I solve them in 20-30 seconds before lubing and with weird color schemes.

But the A's... I've assembled one and it's very very stiff, I think the springs are way too strong. Even after loosening the screws so I can pull the centers 2mm from the core, including 1mm visible screw thread. Is this normal?

 

[joey]

Today I received some A and D cubes from cubefans.com. The D's already feel promising after straightening the screws. I solve them in 20-30 seconds before lubing and with weird color schemes.

Sounds good, I should hopefully get mine in several days. What colour schemes did you get? watermelon was talking about white/orange on one of his! haha! I hope I have enough stickers left to resticker them to my usual scheme!

But the A's... I've assembled one and it's very very stiff, I think the springs are way too strong. Even after loosening the screws so I can pull the centers 2mm from the core, including 1mm visible screw thread. Is this normal?

I'm not really sure. I've never felt like the springs were too strong. I like all the type A's I've assembled, but am definitely looking forward to type D a lot now aswell.

 

[Stefan]

My three white D's are regular BOY except an opposite-face-swap. My three black D's have white opposite orange, blue opposite red, yellow opposite green. And one of them has an opposite-face-swap compared to the other two.

 

[joey]

My three white D's are regular BOY except an opposite-face-swap. My three black D's have white opposite orange, blue opposite red, yellow opposite green. And one of them has an opposite-face-swap compared to the other two.

I wonder what schemes I'll get!

You said you straightened the screws.. did you completely disassemble and reassemble them?

Have you tried some of the type A cubies on the type D core?

 

[Lofty]

My last type A came with springs that were way too stiff as well. I don't even use the cube for that reason alone.

 

[Stefan]

You said you straightened the screws.. did you completely disassemble and reassemble them?

I took off edges and corners, pulled the centers to see screws which were skewed, unscrewed them and screwed them back straight.

Have you tried some of the type A cubies on the type D core?

Not yet. I'll first try the D's the way they are after lubing. Then I'll read this thread in more detail and try those suggestions.

 

[joey]

You said you straightened the screws.. did you completely disassemble and reassemble them?

I took off edges and corners, pulled the centers to see screws which were skewed, unscrewed them and screwed them back straight.

Ah ok, I'll try that.

Have you tried some of the type A cubies on the type D core?

Not yet. I'll first try the D's the way they are after lubing. Then I'll read this thread in more detail and try those suggestions.

It seems people having been getting good results with straight D's, and combo's of D and A's. I hope to maybe hear your experiences at some point.

 

[Pedro]

I took off edges and corners, pulled the centers to see screws which were skewed, unscrewed them and screwed them back straight.

which "method" do you use to put them back straight?
my OH cube (type A from 9spuzzles) got kinda bad today, after my friends played with it (too much force and lots of pops )

I was trying to "fix" it, and noticed some of the screws were not straight...but I can't seem to get them right...maybe the core is screwed up and won't hold them properly, but I prefer to believe there's still hope

so, how do you make it? it's giving me a hard time...

 

[badmephisto]

My D's also came with bad color schemes. The white one came with good color scheme, the black ones came with White-Orange.

the stickers on the white one are very bad, and have already started peeling off, only after a few days.
My point is, D's are good, but you will have to resticker them one way or another - because the color scheme is wrong, or because the stickers that come with them are very low quality.
Good thing cube4you attaches sticker sets together with the cubes when they ship them.

 

[Guoguodi]

Just to re-iterate on martijn_cube's idea: if you have any *old* Type A cores lying around, replace the Type D core with that, tighten the screws, and you get no-POP, light-turning, crispy-crunchy heaven.

 

[Stefan]

which "method" do you use to put them back straight?

I unscrew completely, put the center piece (and spring/washers) away and just screw back the screw (because this way I can see it better), trying to force it in straight. Then off and on again together with the center piece.

When assembling a cube I got in pieces, first thing I do is screw in all six screws alone, to get them all straight once. Then one at a time unscrew and screw back with the center piece, trying to keep it straight.

The skewed screws of the D cubes were easy to detect, pulling the center from the core and peeking into the gap I could see the "bottom" in the "middle" of the "screw" (if you've seen them, you'll understand all that quoting) clearly not being aligned with the core surface.

 

[Pedro]

which "method" do you use to put them back straight?

I unscrew completely, put the center piece (and spring/washers) away and just screw back the screw (because this way I can see it better), trying to force it in straight. Then off and on again together with the center piece.

When assembling a cube I got in pieces, first thing I do is screw in all six screws alone, to get them all straight once. Then one at a time unscrew and screw back with the center piece, trying to keep it straight.

The skewed screws of the D cubes were easy to detect, pulling the center from the core and peeking into the gap I could see the "bottom" in the "middle" of the "screw" (if you've seen them, you'll understand all that quoting) clearly not being aligned with the core surface.

hmm...yeah, I tried doing that, but the screw wouldn't go straight, even putting it alone ¬¬ I guess the core is messed up...oh, well...the cube is not feeling that bad anymore...I even got a 2.67 avg on the ccw U perm

 

[Pedro]

hmm...yeah, I tried doing that, but the screw wouldn't go straight, even putting it alone ¬¬ I guess the core is messed up...oh, well...the cube is not feeling that bad anymore...I even got a 2.67 avg on the ccw U perm

well, looks like it's not good indeed...it's kinda loose, but not turning well as before...maybe I'll order another core...

But the A's... I've assembled one and it's very very stiff, I think the springs are way too strong. Even after loosening the screws so I can pull the centers 2mm from the core, including 1mm visible screw thread. Is this normal?

I can say the same thing...I assembled my type A's from cube4you, and they feel very stiff, even with the tension set very loose...

no way as good as the ones I have from 9spuzzles, which feel good right from the beginning

 

[Crzyazn]

cube4you's Type As straight after assembly require heavy duty breaking in....or some good lube ^^

I had the same problem and lubing fixed most of my problems in my first few DIYs

 

[MasakitChan]

Methinks that type D is even better when they're pretty tight because they lock a hell lot less. It's not as smooth as type A though but faster.

O by the way people at sidewalks here sell a type D for 1.25 to 2$ each. That makes me feel like getting a type a diy inside the country which costs nearly 20$ lolz, but I can get up to like 6 type D's if I want to. Rofl.

 

[joey]

Are you sure they are type D?

 

[Harris Chan]

I heard in the Philippines have seen the type Ds come for a long while already, but they called it "unknown DIY" until 9spuzzles and cube4you.com started selling it. Man, DIYs sold in the streets for that price, just amazing...