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Slightly more experienced newb here. I can't perfectly explain what I did but I started with an 8-sided cylinder (triangle fan end) then used the knife tool to cut a spiral on top. Then I extruded > deselected > extruded > deselected until I had something to work with. After that I manually moved edges into a ramp shape, merged vertices when needed and dissolved any unneeded edges to make quads (there necessarily needs to be some triangles). There is probably a super cleam fast way to do this but I don't know it. I'm not a serious modeler.