Found a place that sells aluminum cores, quit, then rediscovered this site

[James Cavanauh]

I dissapeared from this community and a cuber friend would always send me cubing links, and upon searching through my email, I found this site :http://atomiccubelube.com/. I remember a much bigger site, and for the most part another Lubix type thing, but the only thing that stood out was the aluminum cores that they sold. It seems they went out of business and are selling off the remainders of their stock. After googling around, I only saw a couple lube review threads, nothing on the cores. Does anyone know about this place?

 

[ThomasJE]

They made a thread about it, but it got deleted because they didn't pay for it. Some reviews were made, and that seemed enough to put them out of business. I can see Lubix potentially buying all the cores.

 

[D3rpMcHerp]

The cores looked cool so I thought about getting one. Problem is it's $20 for 1 core. :/

 

[applemobile]

They look cool, but you never see them. I don't really see any benefits from having an inflexible core other than looking cool.

 

[Kattenvriendin]

The screws will unscrew themselves in the thing if they are true full metal.

There is a thread about them somewhere where that was explained.

 

[applemobile]

You were supposed to super glue the screws in

 

[Owen]

You were supposed to super glue the screws in

That's not reasonable by any stretch of the imagination. You're basically paying $20 to downgrade your cube.

 

[Hunter]

I would use blue threadlock.

 

[CarlBrannen]

Yeah threadlock or a little plastic insert like castle nuts have.

 

[musicninja17]

Honestly, I would really like to get ahold of an aluminum core. There may not be much of a difference, but I do think that there is some give in the plastic cores. May not be a lot, but maybe a little bit of wiggle room in the threads or something. It's plastic. Bendable. Anyone who thinks that they can screw metal machine screws into metal cores without Loktite and expecting it to hold doesn't know what they're doing.

 

[kirtpro]

theres no need for an aluminium core

 

[musicninja17]

theres no need for an aluminium core

There's no need for stickerless cubes either since they don't actually do much. Or void cubes. Or rubik's magic.
... Or anything. Can you be more specific?