Lubricant

[EchoMoon]

Would Cork Grease be a good lubricant? I play tenor saxaphone, and cork grease is used as a lubricant for where the mouthpiece goes on. Has anyone ever used this?

 

[maxcube]

I would stick with CRC Silicone. You can get it at Walmart for $3.

 

[EchoMoon]

My mom doesn't even think that a cube needs to be lubed, let alone let me buy something to lube it with :-[
I'm just trying to work with what I got XD

 

[EchoMoon]

Well, I just put a minimal amount in, and it's slick as snot

 

[Unknown.soul]

I've tried cork grease before, it's pretty much petroleum jelly without the petroleum. It's made of lanolin/wool fat.

 

[EchoMoon]

So is it good or bad? I put it in, And it shaved down my time by about 40 seconds.
11: 01:40.90 x
10: 01:52.75 x
9: 02:34.94 x
8: 02:07.82 x
7: 02:06.69 x
6: 02:31.03 x
5: 03:07.85 x
4: 03:28.14 x
3: 02:22.91 x
2: 03:16.22 x
1: 02:38.17 x
Here is the list of times I recorded when I first got my cube. I went to my grandmas, came hime, put the cork grease in, then recorded the last two.

 

[Unknown.soul]

If it helps, you can keep using it. It won't damage the plastic.

 

[EchoMoon]

Really? Sweet! I'll tell my friend tomorrow, he uses vasoline.

 

[Novriil]

Hi!

I don't know about saxophone grease but my trumpet uses oil. One friend told me that it should make my cube faster and so on, so I opened my cube and lubed it with my trumpet oil. Later (5 min) my cube was a DISASTER! When I wanted to solve it, then it slowed my times about 3 MINUTES (otherwise it would be somewhere 1 minute). The problem was that the oil went between the "little cubes" and it some why slowed it. Although I put it only on the middle piece (bursa ? ). So keep away from trumpet oil (all wind instruments with slides use it) everybody when lube-ing.

// btw - Later I had to clean all the pieces one by one because my cube was like a brick - not moveing.

 

[TheBigCube112]

Oh...
I thought cork grease was petroleum based. It felt oily like petroleum. By the way does anyone here know if valve oil is good for cubes?

 

[randomray]

Hey I live in the Netherlands
Recently I bought an F-II and the lube inside of it is kinda gone so I want to spray it.
I have my very old Rubik's cube which I vaseline'd it a long time ago then used WD-40. Today it's a really smooth cube after lots of breaking in and get avg of 60 sec's on it.

So does anyone live in the Netherlands and know a good lubricant? I can't seemfind Jigaloo or CRC, I only found WD-40, SILICONE72 and Griffon HR260.

Has anyone tried SILICONE72? It looks like CRC manufactures it.

 

[Sillas]

I use silicone spray, and it has worked.

 

[Reinier Schippers]

I use griffon H260 as silicone spray It works fine

 

[randomray]

I use griffon H260 as silicone spray It works fine

Thanks I ordered one.