Mefferts Megaminx

i just ordered one yesterday, does anyone know how it is straight out of the box, is it better then the chinese one straight away? Thank you :)
 
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I haven't been able to replace anything, and I think I may have gotten lucky. I lubed it and it's ok. I'm about 2:15 slower than I am on the chinese one. I'm just going to keep solving it until it gets more broken in, until I get some new springs.
 
Ok, I ended up taking DIY (a) screws and springs and using them in half of my minx. They work great, but now I have to find another set for the other half. It's sort of ok, because I put them on the top, which gets most use. I had a 2:38, but I'm still getting used to the color scheme.
 
masterofthebass said:
Ok, I ended up taking DIY (a) screws and springs and using them in half of my minx. They work great, but now I have to find another set for the other half. It's sort of ok, because I put them on the top, which gets most use. I had a 2:38, but I'm still getting used to the color scheme.
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So you took out the screw as well? And did you use any washers?
 
Doh......all this megaminx talk got me all riled up and I just had to buy one before they sold out :mad:

Whats the delivery like on these babies into Canada?
 
masterofthebass said:
Ok, I ended up taking DIY (a) screws and springs and using them in half of my minx. They work great, but now I have to find another set for the other half. It's sort of ok, because I put them on the top, which gets most use. I had a 2:38, but I'm still getting used to the color scheme.
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Siraj A. said:
masterofthebass said:
Ok, I ended up taking DIY (a) screws and springs and using them in half of my minx. They work great, but now I have to find another set for the other half. It's sort of ok, because I put them on the top, which gets most use. I had a 2:38, but I'm still getting used to the color scheme.
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So you took out the screw as well? And did you use any washers?
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yep...how exactly was that? are the DIY screws the same size? what about the springs? Erik said maybe using 2 of them would be good...
 
Re the spring mod: Can't I just snip and grind down the existing springs by 1/2 cm or will they be tough strong for this?
 
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Pedro the 3x3 screw is barley smaller than the Megaminx one, it is an insignificant differnce. And the springs ; the megaminx one is probably about 0.2/0.3 cm longer than the DIY spring. But the entire megaminx screw has the spiral inclined plane going around it, where as the DIY screw only has maybe 9/10 cm of it. This limits how deep the DIY screw can go, and maybe it;s just mine becasue it can't go deep enough to hold the pieces from popping or falling ut on the Minx. So I think if you want to use the DIY spring you will need about 6 washers as Stefan says.
 
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Hmm... i didn't even think about that. I literally took the screw/spring/washer combo out of my 3x3 and put it into the minx. It worked perfectly and I haven't had any problems. My only issue is one of the centers that wasn't replaced. I didn't like the screws that it came with, they seemed very frail.
 
masterofthebass said:
Hmm... i didn't even think about that. I literally took the screw/spring/washer combo out of my 3x3 and put it into the minx. It worked perfectly and I haven't had any problems. My only issue is one of the centers that wasn't replaced. I didn't like the screws that it came with, they seemed very frail.
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Did the screw have the spiral inclined plane (w/e) completley around it?
 
Siraj A. said:
Pedro the 3x3 screw is barley smaller than the Megaminx one, it is an insignificant differnce. And the springs ; the megaminx one is probably about 0.2/0.3 cm longer than the DIY spring. But the entire megaminx screw has the spiral inclined plane going around it, where as the DIY screw only has maybe 9/10 cm of it. This limits how deep the DIY screw can go, and maybe it;s just mine becasue it can't go deep enough to hold the pieces from popping or falling ut on the Minx. So I think if you want to use the DIY spring you will need about 6 washers as Stefan says.
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10 cm of spiral? O.o

so, how would I place those 6 washers? 3 on top of the spring, 3 on the bottom?
 
Wow this modification is gonna be harder than I thought. :(

Still not that hard though. Did Stefan and Erik use the same screw?
 
masterofthebass said:
Ok, I ended up taking DIY (a) screws and springs and using them in half of my minx. They work great, but now I have to find another set for the other half. It's sort of ok, because I put them on the top, which gets most use. I had a 2:38, but I'm still getting used to the color scheme.
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So then the screw from a type a set will do it then :) also a 2.38 is great my best is 3.19 on the chinese one
 
Average: 2:42.97
Individual Solving Times: 2:37.94, 2:56.56, 2:44.65, 2:36.41, 2:44.30, (2:19.36), 2:49.28, 2:38.91, 2:19.69, (2:56.71), 2:48.33, 2:53.65

done after 2 days of practice on it. i need to mess w/ the tensions a little more.
 
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