Fangshi ShuangRen Mod - Smoother pieces

[CarlBrannen]

Textured plastic sometimes arises as a result of how they manufacture the molds. The process is called "spark erosion" and gives sort of like an orange-peel kind of surface. It's easily recognizable if you've seen it before. Is this what the texture looks like? See page 2:

http://plastics.bayer.com/plastics/emea/en/literature/pdf/3001.pdf?docId=3001

 

[Lagom]

I found a middle piece mod that works really well, it eliminates the lock ups and the cube flows a lot better. Im gonna try to lower the friction a bit tho, cause I find the fangshi a bit hard to turn...

 

[Lchu613]

Actually I think that's probably it!

 

[mati1242]

I found a middle piece mod that works really well, it eliminates the lock ups and the cube flows a lot better. Im gonna try to lower the friction a bit tho, cause I find the fangshi a bit hard to turn...

What exactly did you do to a edge piece so it moves better ?

 

[uniacto]

yea okay so I just popped open my shuangren for a good look at the pieces. The edge pieces appear to be quite smooth in the areas of friction, so this mod is pretty much unnecessary if the cube is already been through 500-1000 solves. Like it was said earlier in the thread, this mod probably is just a shortcut for attaining a smoother feeling shuangren faster.

 

[PedroSabioni]

But.. I thought you did this mod to it?

I said the cube now is as fast as it was before the mod

 

[Lagom]

What exactly did you do to a edge piece so it moves better ?

I just got 2 more Fangshi´s, so I'm gonna work on these and see what I come up with. Ive only got a bad camera now as well.
Ill make a thread the next week with all mods I find good

 

[CubezUBR]

i like the frosted feeling. i wish it could stay forever

 

[Edward]

Back in my day

 

[EternalE]

Like and subscribe! anyway, I don't think I should try the fangshi mod, as last time I tried a mod that involved strategies like this my cube ended up in the trash.

 

[Lchu613]

I would be afraid of getting sand into the centers and screwing up that....

Anyhow I found this mod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlroJq11GlI
It works quite well, makes the thing less crunchy and smoother, but without losing its swooshiness. I also think it's faster but that's probably just me.

 

[tpt8899]

I just broke my cube in- the pieces look basically the same as the one in the picture, and the cube is quite loose but I have one problem... IT FEELS SOOOOOO STIFF! and very crunchy on top of that! How do I make it smoother?

 

[typeman5]

get the version 2 and then break it in alot... its very good.

 

[tpt8899]

Its what I did

 

[AdamB]

I've been using this as my main cube for a couple of months now. I really liked the scratchy feeling at first but this completely wore off after a couple of thousand solves leaving it catchy and **** feeling.

I took it apart and it was filled with dust, so I cleared it all out, reassembled, retensioned and sprayed some silicone lubricant in it, and now it's very very smooth and fast indeed. Especially on M turns.

This is an edge and a corner piece for reference. They still look pretty well lubed and it's been a week since I sprayed it.