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Helium step platform

Can you post the rest of the text? This is a great idea.
 
"A guy asked me about my hawk helium mod in another post I made. I took the middle steps off because I can comfortably make the step from the bottom to the top. I did not cut these down at all. I then added the steps I took off to the top of my last stick to widen the surface area for a platform. This is only temporary until I drop the cash on a platform but it works pretty good!"
 
Now I can see it. Pretty neat.

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I'm dumb...I started at it for a good 30 seconds trying to see the platform instead of the tops of his sticks..lol
 
Just did this last night. Turned out amazing. Going to slap it on a tree this afternoon and test it out. I'll let ya'll know how it goes.
 
That's going to be a lot of stress on those bolts. It might be ok because the weight isn't going to be on one step and will be distributed across them all, but I would keep an eye on the bolts for sure.
 
redsquirrel said:
That's going to be a lot of stress on those bolts. It might be ok because the weight isn't going to be on one step and will be distributed across them all, but I would keep an eye on the bolts for sure.
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Roger. I used Grade 8, 1/4x20. Think that is heavy-duty enough?
 
redsquirrel said:
That's going to be a lot of stress on those bolts. It might be ok because the weight isn't going to be on one step and will be distributed across them all, but I would keep an eye on the bolts for sure.
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Will it be distributed across them all consistently? I would foresee leaning hard on the putermost one unless I specifically tried not to. I agree it might be ok though.
 
mattsteg said:
Will it be distributed across them all consistently? I would foresee leaning hard on the putermost one unless I specifically tried not to. I agree it might be ok though.
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I agree. I'm not an engineer, just a physicist and it's been a long time since I did calculations like that. It just raises a flag of something to keep an eye on for me.
 
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