From cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Fri Nov 29 03:45:13 1996 Return-Path: cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Received: from curry.epilogue.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by curry.epilogue.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id DAA19651; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 03:45:13 -0500 Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com X-Sender: lars@pop.netgate.net (Unverified) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 17:51:53 -0800 To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu From: Lars Petrus Subject: Re: Lubricants for puzzles > My apologies in advance if this is a repeated topic; it hasn't appeared >recently, at least. > > Question is: What is a really good lubricant for plastic puzzles (such as >the classic Cube) with moving parts? At first I used ordinary candles. It works fine, but you have to redo it twice a week if you twist a lot. Later I heard that Silicon Spray is the best, and I have used it ever since. The odd thing about it is that for the first few minutes of turning, it almost GLUES the cube together. It gets VERY hard to turn. The cubes in the swedish championship were greased with silicon, but not "turned soft", so it was really hard. Since I had learned the cube with a REALLY bad cube (there was a shortage of hungarian cubes for months at that time), I had a big advantage at that competition. - - - - "Madness is the first sign of dandruff" --- Dr Winston O'Boogie Lars Petrus, Sunnyvale, California - lars@netgate.net