From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Thu Mar 11 22:12:57 1999 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil (sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil [132.250.84.38]) by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1-mod) with SMTP id WAA15733 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:12:56 -0500 (EST) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:43:27 -0500 (EST) From: der Mouse Message-Id: <199903101543.KAA28632@Twig.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Oddzon version of the cube > [...] made me wonder why stickers are being used at all? As far as I > know, nobody has produced a cube (or variation) where the plastic > "cubies" are colored appropriately without relying on stickers. A while ago, I took the smoothest-acting Cube I have, peeled off all the stickers, took the thing apart, and painted all the facicles. Et voila! no more sticker problems! Now, I just need to do that with one of the 5-Cubes I have, the one that's suffering from the Dread Orange Sticker Disease; it's already lost one orange sticker completely, and about four more are so loose that only a piece of masking tape is keeping them with the Cube. (Assuming I can figure out how to get it apart non-destructively.) I agree, it would be much more pleasant if the plastic itself were coloured. But that would require at least six different plastics, instead of one, which is probably why it's not done commercially. Low volume already makes the things expensive.... On the other hand, I wonder how much more it really would cost to do coloured plastics. Anyone with enough experience in the industry to say? der Mouse mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B