One Answer Question Hardware Thread

[A2Cubed]

Thanks for the advice! I successfully boron treated a Gan air sm. It feels nice and it’s my new main.

 

[teboecubes]

I'm making a video about the ivy cube, and I'm saying that the ivy cube is a shape mod of both the skewb and pyraminx because the skewb and pyraminx are similar puzzles. Is this correct, and if not, what would be more accurate?

 

[ProStar]

Technically it's a pyra shape mod. But it acts way more like a mini skewb

 

[Sub1Hour]

I'm making a video about the ivy cube, and I'm saying that the ivy cube is a shape mod of both the skewb and pyraminx because the skewb and pyraminx are similar puzzles. Is this correct, and if not, what would be more accurate?

It's basically this cube from Nathan Wilson but without the tips.

Also, this does not need its own thread, this is the kind of thing for the one answer question thread.

 

[xyzzy]

Is there any main-worthy 4³ release that allows for internal edge magnetisation? I know the Wuque allows for it (because my main is an Wuque that's magnetised that way, duh), but lol @ maining the Wuque in tyool2020.

Spoiler: Possible internal edge magnetisation layouts

The Wuque's internal edges can split apart along the short axis, and there's a really thin hole that just barely allows stuffing a 5×0.8 magnet in there. This was the way I magnetised my Wuque's inner layers (magnet in internal edge not pictured, but you get the idea):

The Wuque obviously wasn't designed to accommodate magnets like this and the 5×0.8 magnets in the internal edge can't be pushed in deep enough for there to be a strong attraction with the wing piece's bottom magnet. Nevertheless, it works, and the inner layers don't suffer from the double bump present in most other even-order cubes (exceptions being the Valk 2 and the MGC Elite 2).

Another possible magnet layout is to place a magnet in the wing piece where the "×" in the "4×2 N38" caption above is; the hole there fits 3×1.7 very snugly. There's plenty of room in the internal edge piece for wide magnets (from eyeballing, around 7 mm diameter) and thickness is limited to around 2 mm. I haven't tried this.

There's yet another possible magnet layout, although this one won't work with the Wuque. The internal edges of some cubes (e.g. Yusu R, YLM 4, YLM 6, original Meilong 4?) have a "trench" that you can directly place the magnets in. I have the Yusu R and have sort of tried this: magnets fit, but the cube sucks too much for me to tell whether the magnets are doing anything useful. (I don't have the YLM 4, YLM 6 or Meilong 4, but from the photos it looks like the trenches there do fit magnets.)

There may be other possible layouts that I haven't thought of.

In particular, if you have any of these cubes:

* Aosu GTS2/GTS2M/WR/WRM;
* new batch non-magnetic Meilong 4 (do these have the same stickerless half-bright shades as the factory-magnetised Meilong 4?);
* (any other top-tier-when-magnetised cube I'm forgetting about?);

could you check (i) whether the internal edges can be split (or whether it allows for any of the three magnet layouts mentioned above) and (ii) what size of magnets fit in there? (You probably have loads of spare 4×1 and 4×1.5 magnets! Please use those to help you check. Eyeballed size measurements are not useful unless you also have superhuman eyeballs.)

(It would also be interesting to know whether the design of, say, the MGC 4 or the MGC 6 allow for internal edge magnets, but that's a lot less relevant since those already have wing-wing magnets and there's no non-magnetic variant sold.)

 

[I'm A Cuber]

Is there any main-worthy 4³ release that allows for internal edge magnetisation? I know the Wuque allows for it (because my main is an Wuque that's magnetised that way, duh), but lol @ maining the Wuque in tyool2020.

Spoiler: Possible internal edge magnetisation layouts

The Wuque's internal edges can split apart along the short axis, and there's a really thin hole that just barely allows stuffing a 5×0.8 magnet in there. This was the way I magnetised my Wuque's inner layers (magnet in internal edge not pictured, but you get the idea):

The Wuque obviously wasn't designed to accommodate magnets like this and the 5×0.8 magnets in the internal edge can't be pushed in deep enough for there to be a strong attraction with the wing piece's bottom magnet. Nevertheless, it works, and the inner layers don't suffer from the double bump present in most other even-order cubes (exceptions being the Valk 2 and the MGC Elite 2).

Another possible magnet layout is to place a magnet in the wing piece where the "×" in the "4×2 N38" caption above is; the hole there fits 3×1.7 very snugly. There's plenty of room in the internal edge piece for wide magnets (from eyeballing, around 7 mm diameter) and thickness is limited to around 2 mm. I haven't tried this.

There's yet another possible magnet layout, although this one won't work with the Wuque. The internal edges of some cubes (e.g. Yusu R, YLM 4, YLM 6, original Meilong 4?) have a "trench" that you can directly place the magnets in. I have the Yusu R and have sort of tried this: magnets fit, but the cube sucks too much for me to tell whether the magnets are doing anything useful. (I don't have the YLM 4, YLM 6 or Meilong 4, but from the photos it looks like the trenches there do fit magnets.)

There may be other possible layouts that I haven't thought of.

In particular, if you have any of these cubes:

* Aosu GTS2/GTS2M/WR/WRM;
* new batch non-magnetic Meilong 4 (do these have the same stickerless half-bright shades as the factory-magnetised Meilong 4?);
* (any other top-tier-when-magnetised cube I'm forgetting about?);

could you check (i) whether the internal edges can be split (or whether it allows for any of the three magnet layouts mentioned above) and (ii) what size of magnets fit in there? (You probably have loads of spare 4×1 and 4×1.5 magnets! Please use those to help you check. Eyeballed size measurements are not useful unless you also have superhuman eyeballs.)

(It would also be interesting to know whether the design of, say, the MGC 4 or the MGC 6 allow for internal edge magnets, but that's a lot less relevant since those already have wing-wing magnets and there's no non-magnetic variant sold.)

I know the worm has that design with the hidden edges, idk about the centers

 

[Sub1Hour]

Is there any main-worthy 4³ release that allows for internal edge magnetisation? I know the Wuque allows for it (because my main is an Wuque that's magnetised that way, duh), but lol @ maining the Wuque in tyool2020.

Spoiler: Possible internal edge magnetisation layouts

The Wuque's internal edges can split apart along the short axis, and there's a really thin hole that just barely allows stuffing a 5×0.8 magnet in there. This was the way I magnetised my Wuque's inner layers (magnet in internal edge not pictured, but you get the idea):

The Wuque obviously wasn't designed to accommodate magnets like this and the 5×0.8 magnets in the internal edge can't be pushed in deep enough for there to be a strong attraction with the wing piece's bottom magnet. Nevertheless, it works, and the inner layers don't suffer from the double bump present in most other even-order cubes (exceptions being the Valk 2 and the MGC Elite 2).

Another possible magnet layout is to place a magnet in the wing piece where the "×" in the "4×2 N38" caption above is; the hole there fits 3×1.7 very snugly. There's plenty of room in the internal edge piece for wide magnets (from eyeballing, around 7 mm diameter) and thickness is limited to around 2 mm. I haven't tried this.

There's yet another possible magnet layout, although this one won't work with the Wuque. The internal edges of some cubes (e.g. Yusu R, YLM 4, YLM 6, original Meilong 4?) have a "trench" that you can directly place the magnets in. I have the Yusu R and have sort of tried this: magnets fit, but the cube sucks too much for me to tell whether the magnets are doing anything useful. (I don't have the YLM 4, YLM 6 or Meilong 4, but from the photos it looks like the trenches there do fit magnets.)

There may be other possible layouts that I haven't thought of.

In particular, if you have any of these cubes:

* Aosu GTS2/GTS2M/WR/WRM;
* new batch non-magnetic Meilong 4 (do these have the same stickerless half-bright shades as the factory-magnetised Meilong 4?);
* (any other top-tier-when-magnetised cube I'm forgetting about?);

could you check (i) whether the internal edges can be split (or whether it allows for any of the three magnet layouts mentioned above) and (ii) what size of magnets fit in there? (You probably have loads of spare 4×1 and 4×1.5 magnets! Please use those to help you check. Eyeballed size measurements are not useful unless you also have superhuman eyeballs.)

(It would also be interesting to know whether the design of, say, the MGC 4 or the MGC 6 allow for internal edge magnets, but that's a lot less relevant since those already have wing-wing magnets and there's no non-magnetic variant sold.)

After looking on my GTS2, it doesn't look like that's a possibility, It also seems to be impossible with my MGC 6x6. Their internals are just too thin to allow for magnets to fit unless they are extremely thin.

 

[ep2]

Is there a list of what mains the top cubers use somewhere?

 

[Jam88]

I have a problem. Both my Gan 356 Air SM and my GTS2M have these lockups where the corner gets caught on the edge. I am not trying to corner cut, it happens when I do U2 flicks. I have my gan on green GES and no lube and my GTS2M quite loose and a drop of Weight 3. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Owen Morrison]

I have a problem. Both my Gan 356 Air SM and my GTS2M have these lockups where the corner gets caught on the edge. I am not trying to corner cut, it happens when I do U2 flicks. I have my gan on green GES and no lube and my GTS2M quite loose and a drop of Weight 3. Any help would be appreciated.

I would recommend tightening those cubes.

 

[Jam88]

Thanks

 

[chron0s]

These are from a puzzle released in the last year but I have no idea what they’re for. Larger diameter - one set silver the other gold. What did I get these with? I’m absolutely stumped and have googled. Thanks to anyone who can help

 

[Sub1Hour]

These are from a puzzle released in the last year but I have no idea what they’re for. Larger diameter - one set silver the other gold. What did I get these with? I’m absolutely stumped and have googled. Thanks to anyone who can help

I believe those are the extra springs from the tengyun v1

 

[qwr]

I just loosened the screws in my stickerless WitTwo and I noticed there was black dust all over the screw, which combined with the traxxas I put in to create this black fluid all over the screw length. What's really puzzling is that the entire cube has no black plastic at all - the internal and external pieces are colored and the core is white. This doesn't seem to affect performance but I wonder if anyone else has had a similar experience.

 

[PetrusQuber]

I just loosened the screws in my stickerless WitTwo and I noticed there was black dust all over the screw, which combined with the traxxas I put in to create this black fluid all over the screw length. What's really puzzling is that the entire cube has no black plastic at all - the internal and external pieces are colored and the core is white. This doesn't seem to affect performance but I wonder if anyone else has had a similar experience.

I think it’s because the combined plastic dust of colours create a sort of grey black colour?
If you’ve ever painted you’ll notice splashing colours together gets you black/brown.

 

[qwr]

I think it’s because the combined plastic dust of colours create a sort of grey black colour?
If you’ve ever painted you’ll notice splashing colours together gets you black/brown.

hmm maybe. but this is pure black. I suspect it's dust that somehow got in

I noticed it happened on my little magic 2x2 too, so it's not just for one cube. Since 2x2s have their screws exposed this is probably how the dust got in.

 

[Nir1213]

I noticed it happened on my little magic 2x2 too, so it's not just for one cube. Since 2x2s have their screws exposed this is probably how the dust got in.

then wipe the insides and the outsides with baby wipes.
I highly reccomend it because the wipes can wipe off the dust, with barely any water to break the cube, just only a little bit water in the wipe to clean the cube.
No im not joking srsly

 

[SpeedCuberSUB30]

Guys today I got my first magnetic cube(a 3x3).
It is the Thunderclap v3.
It's really good but I want to ask a question, can I open the edges and corners to see the magnets and if yes,how??

Also which lube should I buy.. it needs to be cheap and 10ml.. is the maru lube good?

 

[GAN CUBER]

Maru is outdated I would recommend SCS Martian or any other weighted silicone lube

 

[SpeedCuberSUB30]

Maru is outdated I would recommend SCS Martian or any other weighted silicone lube

ok what abt my other question?