Once done, you can palce the edge back in. Now, if you want a fast cube, then put in little bit of lube. The lube I am using is traxxas 50k, which makes the cube controllable and smooth. However for fast cubers, 50k will make it slow, so if you have 30k lying around, use that
Otherwise, you can put in weight 1 also to get that fast speed. Now, you take the diogonally opposite edge out, and do the same process on the corner. Apply a little bit of lube on the corner, and put the edge back in. Continue building the top layer
Be gentle, otherwise the cube will pop, raining over your hard work. For building the top layer, I start by putting in 2 opposite edges, got lucky otherwise my cube was on the verge of popping
After you have the 2 opposite edges, you put in all the corners. Now get your lube bottle, and apply tiny bit of lube on the corner base of both the corners. You can't really see that much clearly
but I didn't apply a lot of lube. You can also apply 30k or weight 1 for making the cube fast, instead of 50k. Once done, put in the last edge pieces in
Once done, move the cube around, so you can spread the lube around the cube. Now you may ask "Hey critical, we didn't lube the core, and yet we assembled the cube. Are you a special kind of stupid?" Haha nope. Unlike the normal speedcubes, they have the screws inside the center piece.
With the gans cubes, you have it on the outside. So it doesn't matter if you lube the core after assembling, or before assembling. Now, lubing the core is a big hassle and honestly, if you feel that your cube is working fine, then you can skip this step
I generally don't lube the core, because of how much tricky and time consuming it is. Anyway, in the gans core, the only place where you can find friction is inbetween the scpring, and the washer. So for lubing the core, you have to take out plastic nut covering the washer, and apply lube to the washer. Step one would be to takeout the plastic nut
Grab your tensioning tool, and just take out the nut. The nut should generally stick inside the tensioning tool, which is good, otherwise, place the nut inside the tensioning tool. Now you have your washer out. Just take the washer out, as it is and put it inside the tensioning tool
ow if you are confused, which side to place the washer on. A washer will have a shiny side and a dull side or a side that has rings on it. When placing the washer inside the tensioning tool, over the plasic nut, you have to make sure to keep the dull side on the top or the side that has the rings on it
So, when you put the washer and the nut in, the washer goes in properly. Once you have the washer inside the tensioning tool, apply a dab of lube on the washer, and cap your lube bottle. Now comes the tricky part...hold your tensioning tool in a 45 degree angle, and your cube also in 45 degree angle
In a quick jiff, place the tensioning tool over the top of the spring, so you have the washer and nut over the screw, ready to be tensioned. Now here, if you are on a smooth surface, you can just rotate the cube with your left hand, to make the nut go inside the screw properly. Otherwise, you have to use your right hand to put the nut in properly
Once you have the nut in, make sure that you didn't put it inside crooked, otherwise you have to redo it again. Also, when you are doing the last step, sometime you will fail and the washer will fall inside the center piece, or sometime inside the gap of the cube
but you have to redo the step once more. This is why I said that lubing the core is an hassle, and time consuming as you are bound to fail. If you want to continue, so the same for all the remaining center pieces.
Once you are done, you have finished lubing the cube and are just left with the tensioning
The thing I forgot to mention was that when you are lubing the core, tention the nut in such a way, so that you have the screw surface, and the nut surface completely flat. If you feel the screw poking your finger, loosen the nut to make the surface flat. If you don't feel the poke at all, then well, you need to tighten a bit
Hey guys, its me CriticalCubing and today I will show you how I set up my Gans v2. The Gans setup is pretty similar to the other setup videos that I have done.
The only difference is the way you lube the core. I will be going a bit fast in this video, so if you didn't understand anything, please take a look at my other setup videos like the yuexiao setup, aolong v2 setup etc.
Anyway, when starting, you will ofcourse need your cube, the tensioning tool that comes with the cube, your lube bottle and a towel for wiping the pieces
Generally, I would just wash the pieces to get a clean wash and make the pieces 100% lube free but the gans v2 has lots of screws in the pieces also.
Now if you want to do the wash pieces method, you have to unscrew all the screws, which is kind of an hassle and takes too long, so I just take an towel, and wipe the pieces.
First off, you have to disassemble the cube. For normal cubes, I just unscrew the center pieces and then dissect it completely
With the Gans, unlike normal cubes, I don't disassemble it completely. I just take out all the pieces, leaving the core as it is.
Now depending on your tensions, you have to might have to loosen them, like I did before you can take out the pieces. Once you have all the pieces out, you can keep the core aside for now on, and start cleaning the pieces
I start with a corner pieces, and gently clean the sides, rotating the piece with my left hand. After that, I clean the white base, while gently rotating the piece with my left hand
Now comes the edge piece. I follow the same method like how I did the corner. First I wipe the side clean, while moving the piece with my left hand, and then I go and clean the white base the same way
Now clean all the other pieces and then we will start cleaning the core. For the core, I just clean the sides, and don't disassemble it completely.
Once you are done with the cleaning, we can start assembling the cube. Now, Gans assembly can be frustruating because of how tight the core is.
Anyway, we start off by inserting an edge piece. For inserting it smoothly, I hold one of the center piece with my thumb, so as to pull it up, while I support the other center piece, with my other fingers
Now that, we have a gap, the edge piece can go in easily. Using the same process, you insert an adjacent edge piece. Make sure to be gentle, otherwise the edge piece will just pop out. Now, insert the common coloured corner, that both the edge pieces have
In here, I hold the other two edge pieces, so that they don't pop out, while I insert the corner. Lastly, we insert another edge piece, so that we can create a 2x2 block
Now that you have created this block, the pieces will stay together, and prevent popping out. Continue building your blocks. Now we just build the adjacent side, so as to make a 2x3 block
I place another adjacent edge piece, then put in the common corner, and then the common edge and now you are done. Lastly, put in the last edge piece, so as to complete your cross and then put in both the corners
Be gentle and cautious so as to prevent popping. Now instead of putting both the common edge pieces, put only one of them in. Once you are done, get your lube bottle, and put a little bit of lube on the corner piece