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===== Maltese Gear Cube =====
Solution ideas from zergosaur: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMM1YoUvfaU

1) Solve the corners, centers and edges (ie all pieces except for the gears) using a Mixup Gear Cube method:

a) Solve the corners as a 2x2, using: http://www.rubiksplace.com/cubes/2x2/

b) 3-Cycle the edge + centers using: (R U R U R) (U' R' U' R' U') - this midpoint might be worth investigating further as the 2x2 face is unchanged but the back 3x3s are modified at this point. Follow with: (L' U' L' U' L') (U L U L U)

2) Permute the gears using https://youtu.be/uBU_0Qb-AGI or https://youtu.be/wn4itiyq2pU

3) To rotate 2 gears by 90°:

 (R'D'RD)*4
 D (RURUR U'R'U'R'U')*2 (U'L'U'L'U' LULUL)*2 D'
 (D'R'DR)*4
 D (L'U'L'U'L' ULULU)*2 (URURU R'U'R'U'R')*2 D'

This rotates the front left gear +90°, and the front right gear -90°.

Alternatively, a small variation of this alg

 (R'D'RD)*4
 LD (RURUR U'R'U'R'U')*2 (U'L'U'L'U' LULUL)*2 D'L'
 (D'R'DR)*4
 LD (L'U'L'U'L' ULULU)*2 (URURU R'U'R'U'R')*2 D'L'

rotates 4 gears:

 front right -90°
 top left: +90°
 left top: -90°
 left bottom: +90°

Do the above algs until all gears are either solved or need to be flipped 180° (ie only need to fix gears which need to be rotated 90° or 270°).

4) Doing https://youtu.be/uBU_0Qb-AGI twice flips all 4 gears which were part of the cycle by 180°. Use this to orient all of the gears correctly.


Additional Algs (not used in above method):

a) The following 1000+ move alg (!) rotates the two gears located on the front and back faces next to the L face by 90°.

 (R' D' R D)*132
 D
 (R' D' R D)*132
 D'

b) Use https://youtu.be/L3Sd1mS5DTI to rotate pairs of gears of the same color by 90°.