[Help Thread] Puzzle Setup / Tension Discussion

Crimson The Dragon said:
I have two Gan XS's. a stickered one and a stickerless one. The stickered one feels amazing and it has incredible corner cutting, as it should. My stickerless one, however, is a bit slower. It feels like it has more friction, and more importantly, the corner cutting is really bad. Both cubes are on the exact same settings: clear thing on 4th click, light blue thing on #3. The only difference is the stickered one has just factory lube and the stickerless one has been lubed with Martian, but this has been happening since I took it out of the box. I'd really like to know how to fix this.
Here's a video showing the difference:
https://imgur.com/a/BQRSbFi
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You need to loosen your cube bro...
 
What tensions/lube should i put in my new warrior w? Just so you know, here are my preferences:

Speed: Medium
Stability: REALLY HIGH
Corner Cutting: As long as it get above 40 degrees it doesn't matter.
Gummy-ness: Slightly. I want just enough resistance in my cube.

And for lubes I own or am willing to buy:
Weight 5
DNM37
Traxxas 50k and 30k
 
DNM 37 makes it really fast as I can tell.
Weight 5/Traxxas 50K slows down the cube a bit, smooths it out.
Weight 3/Traxxas 30K speeds up the cube a bit, smooths it out.
I have the 30K, and it works brilliantly. Smoothness, more speed, improved cornercutting by a mile, etc.

As for tensions, if it feels too loose for you, open up a cap, make 4 quarter turn revolutions clockwise. Repeat for all. If still too loose, repeat. If it becomes too tight after that, make 2 quarter turn revolutions anti clockwise. Fine tune. And vice versa for loosening. When you've found your preference, try tightening the cube a quarter turn revolution repeatedly, until you feel your cube is losing the feel that you like. Stop there, reverse a turn if needed. Now your cube is at the perfect tension for you, and tight as possible without losing that feel (popping, catching, etc)
 
Cosmic cubes are set up with custom lubes. Supernova is generally considered better then pro setup. Kian's vid should be enough.
 
I need help setting up my stickerless GAN XS. It's way to sluggish, my times are 3-5 seconds slower then with my GTX 3M. I have over 600 solves on it and its not getting better. I lubed the core with cubicle black and Dignitas on the pieces. I have washed my cube out and tried different amounts and different lubes. Nothing is making this puzzle fast enough for me. I have tried every setting combo and nothing is working.

What is going on with this thing. Is this puzzle just way slower then the GTX 3M? Im so frustrated with this thing, I keep solving it hoping it will break in and speed up, but it hasn't gotten better.
 
I'm having trouble fixing the tension issues on my gan 356i. All five sides of my cube are fine and have the same tensioning. However the white side of my cube is really loose and turns significantly faster than the other sides. All other sides will do a U1, where as my white side will do U3's and sometimes U4's. I have checked the tensioning on all sides of the cube and they are all on the same number (.6). The white centre is also slightly elevated compared to the other centre pieces. I believe this has something to do with the white side turning so fast and loosely. Can some please help me as I can't use this very expensive cube.
 
JTM007 said:
I'm having trouble fixing the tension issues on my gan 356i. All five sides of my cube are fine and have the same tensioning. However the white side of my cube is really loose and turns significantly faster than the other sides. All other sides will do a U1, where as my white side will do U3's and sometimes U4's. I have checked the tensioning on all sides of the cube and they are all on the same number (.6). The white centre is also slightly elevated compared to the other centre pieces. I believe this has something to do with the white side turning so fast and loosely. Can some please help me as I can't use this very expensive cube.
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I've figured out that the core foot on the white side moves in and out. Whereas the core feet on all five other sides don't do this. How can I get the white side core foot to stop moving in and out?
 
Hello all,
I'm a pyraminxer who currently averages 2.9 seconds and my x man bell Pyraminx is starting to lock up a lot due to my fast tps... Can anyone please suggest a good setup which can mitigate this problem?
 
SpiFunTastic said:
Hello all,
I'm a pyraminxer who currently averages 2.9 seconds and my x man bell Pyraminx is starting to lock up a lot due to my fast tps... Can anyone please suggest a good setup which can mitigate this problem?
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You might want to loosen it a bit, put some Lubicle speedy in it (I think that’s supposed to help a bit) maybe lube the hardware with some thicker lube, like 20k
 
Cubinwitdapizza said:
You might want to loosen it a bit, put some Lubicle speedy in it (I think that’s supposed to help a bit) maybe lube the hardware with some thicker lube, like 20k
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I have the bell and I tried to loosen it and two not-so-good things happened.
1. Due to it being so tight from SCS setup, I stripped a screw.
2. It locked up more and had even worse corner cutting

My experience might be an oddity, but I wouldn't recommend loosening.
 
JTM007 said:
I'm having trouble fixing the tension issues on my gan 356i. All five sides of my cube are fine and have the same tensioning. However the white side of my cube is really loose and turns significantly faster than the other sides. All other sides will do a U1, where as my white side will do U3's and sometimes U4's. I have checked the tensioning on all sides of the cube and they are all on the same number (.6). The white centre is also slightly elevated compared to the other centre pieces. I believe this has something to do with the white side turning so fast and loosely. Can some please help me as I can't use this very expensive cube.
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It could be that, that is stripped... It happens quite a bit with gan cubes... If it's stripped that means when ur turning the cube the tensions of that side is automatically loosening.
 
brododragon said:
I have the bell and I tried to loosen it and two not-so-good things happened.
1. Due to it being so tight from SCS setup, I stripped a screw.
2. It locked up more and had even worse corner cutting

My experience might be an oddity, but I wouldn't recommend loosening.
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Hmmm... I've never heard of a bell stripping...
 
JTM007 said:
I've figured out that the core foot on the white side moves in and out. Whereas the core feet on all five other sides don't do this. How can I get the white side core foot to stop moving in and out?
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I dont, think there is a solution for that, normally I would recommend to over lube the core but since that's a smart cube I don't think your supposed to lube the core.
 
My X-man bell pyraminx sucks. IDK if I got a dud, but my knockoff amazon Shengshou is faster and corner cuts better. I have taken it apart and set it up with the tensions and lubes that would seem good, but it sucks. Any help?
 
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