Hey guys its me CriticalCubing and today we are going to take a look at the Magnetic Valk3
from Redfire Pratham.
I won his giveaway and the prize was a valk3 lubed by him, and he also added the magnets
in there, and I believe that he added N35 magnets, so yeah let's see how it performs
Okay First Impressions.
It is actually lubed pretty nicely.
The way he lubed was to have priority over speed than controllability.
This is quite fast, I wouldn't say very fast or extremely fast because this is still controllable,
but yeah this is quite fast.
And the magnets as you can see are pulling the layers together.
Like for example if I put the layer here, then the magnets should attract?
okay it has to be near, it is not that much strong but the attraction is there.
While you are turning slowly like this, you can feel the magnets, however when you are
turning fast, you don't feel the magnets that much.
The way he lubed it, its quite fast and I like this speed.
Oops...CALL 911 NOW!!!
Tensions are bit on the looser side, I'll have to tighten them up, but yeah the lubrication
is done pretty nicely.
Here is my Valk3 for comparison.
My valk is kind of dry now, you can see the dust (probably cannot).
My valk is more on the controllability side, I have emphasized control more over speed.
This one has more of a gummy feeling but this one has a faster feel to it.
The magnets are actually not good for the M slice.
When I was trying the MU U perms, I was getting resistance from the magnets.
It isn't that huge of a resistance that will break your solves, however its noticeable
when you are turning.
Roux LSE requires M slice to be smooth and fluid, and the magnets are pulling the layers
together which is weird and doens't feel right to me.
As far as Roux LSE is concerned, I probably won't be using a magnetic cube.
Something else that I noticed is that the magnets are giving a break to the turning.
If I have to do it continously, there was a break there, there was another break at
this point, then another break at this point.
You can keep on continously turning the layer as there are no magnets are there are no external
forces that are trying to stop at a certain point.
The layers are misaligning lesser on magnetic one, and more on this one.
That means that the magnets are doing its job.
The cube is nice and the magnets are working well, and the lubrication job is also nicely
done, I do not have any complaints as of now in this first impressions.
However one thing that I would say: it would be better to learn to lubricate/tension and
mod it yourself.
Because lube will dry and you will have to do it youself sometimes in future, and the
magnets, of course they probably won't dry but just learning how to do it yourself is
more fun than asking someone else to do it.
I made my own GTS and that was way more fun than paying someone else to do it for me.
Personally, I would say you should learn how to do it yourself instead of paying someone
else to do it for you.
However for first time, if you want a cube for reference, like, if I have to make this
redfire cube, then I have this cube as a reference, I have turned it and I know how it feels,
so now I can get my own mixture of lubrication and get a similar feel like this.
But its much more better to teach a man how to fish, rather than feeding him for a day.
Hence I would say to just do it yourself, and I have said time and tiem again that you
should be learning these things by yourself because sometimes in future, you will need
to do it yourself.
That should wrap up this video.
Give this video a like and I'll see you next time.
Take care guys and bye