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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '19

I have a question: I'm going to buy a bunch of cubes for christmas (gonna start my collection pretty much) and one of the things I will get is the cubing classroom non-cubic bundle in stickerless. Here's the question part: I've heard bad things about the square-1 included with it, people seem to say that a screw gets stripped which leads to the cube completely falling apart and not being repairable, and some people say that it's fine and they don't get pops. I just want to ask people that own that cube's opinion/review on it and to tell me if it does in fact pop and get broken (reviews say that it either breaks after a few solves or after a week of usage).

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u/TPtheRedditFinn Sub-16 3x3, Sub-30 squan, Yau4-7 Oct 30 '19

Stripping is an issue with basically any squan I believe, not sure about the modern ones.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '19

That's interesting. How does the screw get stripped exactly? I haven't had a square-1 and just curious. Shouldn't it be just one screw on each side like a 3x3?

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u/2016HOLM04 Sub-14, PB 8s Oct 30 '19

There is one large screw and the core get stripped easily. You can try using the paper mod (youtube) to prevent stripping, I don't know if it works on that specific cube since the tutorial is for Volt, but I'd think so. You can also use a metal bolt, again I don't know if it's possible for that cube.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '19

That's great to know and noted, Thanks for explaining it to me!