[Video] ShengShou 5x5 Mod Tutorial - The WorldRecord Mod by Florian

Akash Rupela said:
Okay. So I did this mod, with sandpaper, sandblock, and a knife and spent 14-15 hours with it
I rounded off the corner pieces like the Vcube5 corner mod, and then from the 3 stalks to the top
For center corners, I rounded off the small base and the long stalk(with a bump) till the top
For edges, i rounded off(obviously after cutting lots of plastic), the 2 long stalks till the top
I swapped with dayan springs, stil using the red core though

Here is the thing, after trying quite a lot to tension it, it always feels weird, the outer layers are super loose, i found a usable tension for them but at that the inner layers lock up quite a lot and they feel real tight. When i loosen it up so that inner layers feel comfortable, even a little inaccurate turning results in a pop of 3 pieces(1 center corner, 1 piece adjacent to center corner, and 1 edge piece)

Can someone help me? What went wrong? What should i do?


Additional info - I had done about 900 something solves on my SS already , so it was pretty well broken in. Do i need to give the cube time again to break in after this mod according to it ? (thats what i can think of as a problem). But might just be something more technical
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Surpsisingly a lot of people have problems with the dayan springs switch them back and try again
 
Right, so I spend a good chunk of yesterday doing this mod. First impressions, it's definitely better than an ss5 without the mod. Secondly, take your time to tension/lube it. I lubed to core with lubix and the surfaces with maru. I must have spent nearly 2 hours tensioning correctly, I still get the classic "Shengshou Lock", but it isn't really a lock and you can avoid them pretty easily after a few solves. There are definitely gaping holes in my outer layers, but I don't think I've taken off as much plastic as you have Florian, I personally believe taking off that much is unecessary but I guess we cannot compare cubes unless you are going to Euros/Worlds. I am very glad I've taken the time to do this, but the cube will take a few solves to get used to and I can see this being absolutely amazing after a few hundred solves to break it in.
 
I'm trying this on my SS4x4 (already have the Konsta mod) Hopefully it will make it really good. I need to be able to tighten my cube without losing a lot of performance because my cube always pops in competition (and only in competition, as it would be rude to also pop while practicing at home :P)

I'll post with what I think once I finish.
 
finished modding corner centers and outer corners. The only thing is that I don't have a good selection of sander-bits, so my corner stocks are a bit unmodded... I got them as well as I could, but it wasn't great. I'm gonna see if I can finish tomorrow, or friday. Hopefully I'll be able to do a bunch of 5x5 on saturday.
 
Could someone help me out? I didn't really get a good idea how much to round off the center corners from the video or from Jianhan's photos. If someone could post pictures of the modded parts I have circled in the pic below, that would be much appreciated.

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Thanks!
 
googlebleh said:
Could someone help me out? I didn't really get a good idea how much to round off the center corners from the video or from Jianhan's photos. If someone could post pictures of the modded parts I have circled in the pic below, that would be much appreciated.

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Thanks!
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Lots. More than that. I went to the sticker on the side with the stock/base of it, the part that actually goes into the cube. On the other sides I just took off maybe a few mm, just to round it. Not too much on those 3 sides though. I probably could have done it more though.
I don't think it's possible to OVER-mod this. I mean, you could... but by that point the pieces would be snapping. Just remember, if it's not round, sand it.
 
I dropped my SS 5x5 a couple of days ago, and it completely exploded (a whole center piece came off). I've put the pieces in the dishwasher to clean the lube off, and I think it's almost time to do the mod. :)

My cube has the orange core, the one without the extension things. I hear this is the better core/cube. Can someone confirm this? Are the 5x5s with the orange cores older and/or better? I know it is mentioned in the video, but I can't really understand it...
 
mdolszak said:
I dropped my SS 5x5 a couple of days ago, and it completely exploded (a whole center piece came off). I've put the pieces in the dishwasher to clean the lube off, and I think it's almost time to do the mod. :)

My cube has the orange core, the one without the extension things. I hear this is the better core/cube. Can someone confirm this? Are the 5x5s with the orange cores older and/or better? I know it is mentioned in the video, but I can't really understand it...
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Yes, it's the older version, the one Florian has in his video. It is generally considered to be better, because the white cores have cracks in them.
 
I did this to my 4x4 corner stems instead of what Florian shows at ~14 min in his video.
I first did one the way he showed it, then I figured this out and did 5 really nice and round ones, bought a web cam today to show it and recorded the least successful attempt :( . Then I did the last one perfect :)
 
I have done the mod to my 5x5 now, and for some reason it just doesn't turn that good :( I first tried it with Dayan springs and lubed it with lubix, but got the same problems like a lot of other people have. Either the outer layer is good while the inner layer is not, or opposite. So I changed it back to the normal SS springs. It now cuts well, but the turning isn't that smooth. It also has this irritating lock up where the wing-edge and center-edge collides. So i get better times with my 3 month old shengshou that isn't modded than I get with my new shengshou that is modified. My old ss is much smoother and I feel a lot more controlled with it. What have I done wrong, or what can I do? :/

edit: yeah, and another thing I forgot to mention, was that mine doesn't cut as much as Florian showed, and I did get of alot of plastic. I was even afraid of over-modding from time to time
 
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