It is not a slinky. I've got about five of those, I'd know. Well — had, on account of my not having a ship or a place to store things like slinkies.

[ He stretches it apart with his hands, then lets it retract, and while it does have a very slinky-like quality to it, the tube itself is much thicker. If it wasn't, it couldn't do what a coily-tubey is supposed to do. ]

Yes, yes, I'm looking! [ He comes back over to set the coil down, then hops back over to the Box Of Things in search for some clamps; all the better to relieve his unwilling assistant with! ] You're welcome to stay for as long as you like. You did say you'd help, eh?

[ But he pokes his head up from a pile of junkparts and offers her a smile. ]

Glad you're here. I was getting tired of talking to myself the whole time.