From phaedrus@dreamscape.com Thu May 2 01:39:51 1996 Return-Path: Received: from zaphod.caz.ny.us (ubppp-031.ppp-net.buffalo.edu) by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for /com/archive/cube-lovers id AA01135; Thu, 2 May 96 01:39:51 EDT Received: from zaphod.caz.ny.us (zaphod.caz.ny.us [127.0.0.1]) by zaphod.caz.ny.us (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA17826; Thu, 2 May 1996 01:40:15 -0400 Message-Id: <199605020540.BAA17826@zaphod.caz.ny.us> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: Nichael Lynn Cramer Cc: DNewfield@virginia.edu, cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu Reply-To: bmbuck@acsu.buffalo.edu Subject: Re: building a Rubik's Revenge In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 May 1996 23:24:16 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 01:40:14 -0400 From: Buddha Buck > At 9:39 PM 5/1/96, Dale Newfield wrote: > For those who aren't aware of the problem that Dale mentions, the issue is > that --unlike the odd-order cubes that have a central piece which can be > used to anchor its neighbors-- the structural integrity of the RR depends > on a central (internal) plate held in place by a screw whose adjustment is > quite critical. Of the four RRs that I own, one is very good. Of the > others, two are so tight as to be almost impossible to turn. The fourth is > so loose that it simply cannot be made to stay together (I discovered this > for the first time as I was sitting in a movie theater playing with my new > toy; as the lights lowered for the movie to start I felt the sickening > sensation of a cube slowly dissolving in my hands...). Another problem is that the center pieces are held in place by a foot with a rather thin "leg". My RR died three days after I finally worked out a solution. One of the center pieces lost its foot, and the rest of the cube simply dissolved. I'll have to look to see how much of the cube I can still collect together. Hopefully, I'd be able to donate a central ball in good shape, plus perhaps up to 55 pieces (if I can find them all). Or I'd be willing to accept the pieces I'm missing to resurect my RR. -- Buddha Buck bmbuck@acsu.buffalo.edu "She was infatuated with their male prostitutes, whose members were like those of donkeys and whose seed came in floods like that of stallions." -- Ezekiel 23:20