Need advice on how to draw 3D coil

I am drawing a logo for a steel manufacturing related company and need some help on where to start with a 3D coil that is supposed to look like a large coil of steel. I am not very experienced in Illustrator and don't even know what tools would be the ones to start with. Any suggestions would be great.
On another note...I was reading the forums and read that turning off the PDF preview when saving can make a file much smaller NO KIDDING! I had a sluggish file that was 150 MB and I turned off the PDF preview and it is now 3.5 MB :)

Perhaps you cheated but you gave me a great idea.
One of the buildings I recently photographed has a serious of systematized neon lights that change color and is program create even more colors than they actually are made. The are essentially RGB. But of course when you photograph it the colors are only one set static color group. But by using an either a serious of colors or overlays in an animation we can offer the viewer an opportunity of seeing the colors change and even control how the colors change. It can be done with video but the video camera will not give the opportunity of capturing the space as does a large format camera nor will it download as fast and kind of has to be smallish at this point in time to be successful for the web.
But an interactive flash animation based on a still photograph of the space would work incredibly well.
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