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derbOac on March 25, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making a Stainless Steel Rubik's Cube

I would have liked to hear more about why the author was disappointed with the aluminum cube. I'd think it would be lighter and easier to handle.

ummonk on March 25, 2022 [–]

From the article on the aluminum cube: http://lulabs.net/machining/cube/

> The flat bottoms of the face centers do not allow the cube to turn as smoothly as it should; a problem that was rectified with a different design in the new cube.

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