From cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Fri Dec 13 14:54:36 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 OAA22872; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 14:54:35 -0500 Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com To: Cube-Lovers@AI.MIT.EDU From: Wei-Hwa Huang Subject: Re: 6-cube and Hofstadter; Meffert Date: 13 Dec 1996 19:45:47 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 34 Message-ID: <58sbpb$m6p@gap.cco.caltech.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: avarice.ugcs.caltech.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) Corey Scott writes: >i was wondering, i bought a rubic's cube about a month ago and my stickers >are already coming off. what can i do about it? Not much. I find that the only technique that seems to slow down the sticker-losing is: 1) Don't let anybody else play with it. Greasy and oily hands damage the glue, and every once in a while you'll run into some idiot who will try to impress you by removing the stickers and putting them back on in order. >and why don't they use >something different, like plastic color tabs that are superglued on? Probably cost. Ideal made "Rubik's Game" and the Deluxe "Rubik's Cube" a while ago, both which had plastic faces and were much more durable. Unfortunately, no such equivalent was ever produced for the higher-order cubes; I've already lost three 4x4x4 stickers and one 5x5x5 sticker. >please help because i like my cubeand now i'm afraid to use it, it's >dying. I know the feeling. Your best bet is not to worry about it, and to produce your own replacement stickers. -- Wei-Hwa Huang, whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu, http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~whuang/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Statistics show that Ster Trek films without Shatner do better at box offices.