From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Tue Jul 29 16:24:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: from sun30.aic.nrl.navy.mil by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.1/mc) with SMTP id QAA11498; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:24:18 -0400 (EDT) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Mail-from: From whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu Tue Jul 29 14:32:02 1997 To: Cube-Lovers@AI.MIT.Edu From: whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu (Wei-Hwa Huang) Subject: Re: Broken 4^3s; advice on repairs to plastic (medium length) Date: 29 Jul 1997 18:28:24 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Message-Id: <5rlco8$em3@gap.cco.caltech.edu> References: Nicholas Bodley writes: > By the way, the Pocket Cube (2^3) is a bear to disassemble and even worse >to reassemble. If it weren't for the really-good-quality polymer chosen >for it, it (more than likely) could not be manufactured. The difficulty is >in that the cubies have to be distorted ("sprung") to disassemble it. >Whether this plastic retains its ability over many years to be bent out of >shape but not crack, I don't know! Does anyone know whether the mechanisms for the old 2^3's are the same as the recent new 2^3 releases? -- Wei-Hwa Huang, whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu, http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~whuang/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I hate formication. It should be abolished entirely.