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.