Cubing FML

[CarlBrannen]

If you solve in the bathroom some day you're going to end up with a cube in the toilet.

Last night was my day; I popped an edge. FML

I should probably add some background to this.

I have a friend who cleans their toilet every day. When I look at that thing I suddenly understand why dogs are willing to drink out of them. Not my toilet.

Ever been a little sick and wish you could throw up? So you drive the porcelain bus but you just can't get it to slam on the brakes? Well with my toilet leaving your cookies is never difficult at all. This is because I never clean it.

 

[Lchu613]

Oh dear...

 

[5BLD]

F-My Life (Cube Edition)

Ive had plastic shavings go into my eyes when modding with a knife, i always forget goggles D:
I'm lucky it hasnt affected my (already awful) eyesight...

 

[Lchu613]

My eyes are screwed up
One is apparently far-sighted, the other is really nearsighted, and they both have so much astigmatism that they both feel nearsighted.
Oh, and I'm colorblind

 

[Michael Womack]

FML I was restickering my WitEden Roadblock puzzle and did some turning and a center snaped like showed

 

[CarlBrannen]

I wonder if it's repairable. I use solvent glues as they basically melt the plastic and then evaporate away.

 

[Michael Womack]

I wonder if it's repairable. I use solvent glues as they basically melt the plastic and then evaporate away.

Glue Won't help that much never did for the other 3X3s in the past like Rubik's brand ones.

 

[Schmidt]

I have dropped my rubiks brand 3 times and the core broke on two occasions. I superglued it and it is still working.

 

[CarlBrannen]

But did you try the solvent glues? They're really not glues. They're a way of softening the plastic so that you can push it back together again. I should put together a youtube video showing how good they are...

 

[Lchu613]

Please do, I've always wondered how well those work and how
Basically it melts the plastic so you can reassemble it normally?

(Kinda reminds me of the T-1000)

 

[Spaxxy]

I was playing with my new Fangshi Shuang Ren, on track for a new PB. I had just finished my OLL, slightly under 15 seconds so far. I got a T-perm, easy enough, but I screwed it up, had to re-do it several times, and then it popped on me. My unpoppable new cube popped on me. What.

 

[ben1996123]

omg why do i suck at sim so much

8.135, (6.736), 6.935, 13.951, (21.784) = 9.674

 

[CheesecakeCuber]

In the middle of practicing edges BLD. I had just gotten to halfway in memo, when my mom comes and tells me to get off the computer. When I tell her to please be quiet while I finish, she hits the spacebar and stops qqtimer...fml

 

[TheNextFeliks]

I went to my mailbox to see if my new cubes came. I got out there. First there is a wasp on the door but I wait for it to fly away. So it flies away. I go back over to the mailbox. Some birds start dive bombing. They swooped down low and barely missed me. I ran away after two or three. So idk if got my cubes. Looked to be blue jays.

 

[CarlBrannen]

The birds are probably protecting a nest. The idea is to attract your attention so you don't bother the next. When you have to walk in the area, just carry a notebook in your hand. When you see them start to take a dive at you, do your best to bat it out of the sky with the notebook. The odds that you get it are close to zero but it will never get near you again. Birds have very good memories and they hate this sort of thing.

 

[BrainOfSweden]

Cleaning my WitTwo to prepare for lubing. While waiting for the pieces to dry, I realized I'm missing a spring. FML

 

[CarlBrannen]

Eventually I'll post a photo of what I did to a ZhanChi 55mm but right now it's just too painful for me to get the camera out. FMCL

 

[Michael Womack]

Eventually I'll post a photo of what I did to a ZhanChi 55mm but right now it's just too painful for me to get the camera out. FMCL

You broke it right?

 

[Lchu613]

No, he modded it to cubing perfection and can't stop his well of happiness from bursting out

 

[CarlBrannen]

Destroying a cube is painful.

What's worse is to destroy it after you've gone to the trouble of painting it.

Worse than that is to go to the trouble of extensively modifying it.

So the paint I was using was by Createx. They say that their paint needs to be "cured" by heat. They don't say how much heat, but they do say keep it under 300F.

I've got a remote thermometer device that allows you to tell exactly how hot something is. I also have a heat gun.

I now know that a Zhanchi 55mm melts at a much lower temperature than 300F.

Spoiler

I made three of these cubes so at least I've still got two. The idea behind having two is so that I can keep my hands warm on the spare while they're scrambling the other at a competition. I try to make them identical and do pretty well.