Thankyou
everyone

Tony Fisher wrote:
None of my big 3x3x3s have "larger scale mechanisms".
Interesting, I always wondered about that.
Doug Roth wrote:
Hmmm... It probably would have been bigger/easier if the base was an 8x8x8 cube
Maybe, but an 8x8x8 is approximately 10X the price of the 4x4x4 I used

besides, I could have built bigger here with the 4x4x4 I used, but the size I went for was chosen based on how comfortably I could hold and use the puzzle.