From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Mon Jul 28 15:20:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: from sun30.aic.nrl.navy.mil by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.1/mc) with SMTP id PAA04297; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 15:20:06 -0400 (EDT) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Mail-from: From chrono@ibm.net Mon Jul 28 14:58:51 1997 Message-Id: <33DCE54F.5463@ibm.net> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 11:30:39 -0700 From: "Jin \"Time Traveler\" Kim" Reply-To: chrono@ibm.net Organization: The Fourth Dimension To: Cube-Lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: 2^3 Reassembly References: <199707280518_MC2-1BB6-48C8@compuserve.com> Corey Folkerts wrote: > > My 2^3 burst into pieces while I was playing around with it a while > back. I was amazed and intrigued by the number of internal pieces it > contained; many more than the 3^3. Anyway, after a couple minutes I > got it all put back together, and started playing with it again. One > problem: when I attempted to rotate the cube on one of the axes, it > gave me a lot of resistance. If I continued to force it, the whole > thing burst and was reduced once again to a pile of little black > plastic pieces. After a few more random tests, I examined the pieces > and noticed, as I'm sure many have, that some of the small internal > pieces are slightly different than the others. This fact leads me to > believe that the 'special' pieces need to be oriented correctly with > respect to each other in order for the cube to work correctly. I > would be most appreciative if someone could please inform the manner > in which they need to be placed. > > Thanks in advance, > Corey Folkerts You have experienced a problem which has led me to purchase a total of FOUR 2x2x2 cubes. Not even of my own undoing either. In two cases, friends attempted to play with the cube and disassembled them, and were unable to properly reassemble them. I have pieces of each in separate boxes, minus several pieces each. In one case I dropped it, it flew open, and I DID manage to reassemble it properly. But it ALSO fell victim to a careless reassembly by a friend who also carelessly disassembled it. That one I reassembled AGAIN and gave it to someone. They later told me they "broke" it, which means it's in pieces and since they live 450 miles away, I can't exactly help them. I have a fourth, still in its bag, untouched by human hands. Oh yes, and I bought a fifth one (actually, it was the fourth, so the untouched one is technically the fifth) but I had to return it and get another one (the fifth) because it had been disassembled before and reassembled incorrectly (the pieces only turned on one axis). -- Jin "Time Traveler" Kim chrono@ibm.net VGL Costa Mesa http://www.geocities.com/timessquare/alley/9895 http://www.slamsite.com