----- Original Message ----- From: "mike_go_uk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 5:51 PM Subject: [Speed cubing group] Re: Back to it after 25 years
--- In [email protected], Rune Wesström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have bought the 25th from different places and they all have the "old" combinations. But it´s a myth that the old ones absolutly were good ones. No, it wasn't meant as an absolute endorsement of the old cubes. But the 25th now being sold in the Tesco supermarkets here can be /truly/ awful. The rivets have been hammered in so tight that the cube will barely turn -- even a mediocre old cube would be better! Mike Yes, the old screws (and the new) do have there advantage. IF you can open the cap and adjust them. It happened to me more than once that I had to saw it away, only to see that the middle was filled up with glue.Many, many in the old times bought themselves only one cube and to get such a failure must have been very frustrating.. R Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/speedsolvingrubikscube/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
