Commence Operation: Save Helix

Tearing my hair out trying to figure out out to “bridge the gap” between my two levels, I decided to give the helix one more shot.

This evening I managed to break up the helix and save all of the curved wood cutouts. So this will save me a lotta time/money. Just need to remove all the little wedge pieces I added to try and save the original build.

Also got the track off too, just need to clean off some off the hot glue.

I plan on rebuilding using eyehooks attached to the cutouts, and some nuts on 20″ steel rods. This will allow me to adjust levels on the fly and get a real smooth ride up. Like this:

Helix

*Hopefully* this will give me a workable helix.

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Taco Bell finally got their signs delivered this weekend for their Elmwood location (and got a “tar” roof coating too).

Dixie Yard got their Engine house building up. They still need to lay down some concrete inside on the service tracks, and install a service platform outside.

Pizza Hut broke ground on a new location in Elmwood this past week too. I guess a little friendly competition with the Dominoes that’s going to be under construction soon down the block.

Luckily the messed up name will be facing the backdrop.

A new corner gas station is rumored to be coming to Elmwood and Marathon’s South City Refinery has two large storage tanks on order from Kibri, enroute from Europe.

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