Hi EyeballsStudio,
Don't know if you will find this useful or not, if you decide to build a HERO (rotating bottom) or a stunt:
I see from this video that there where at the very least 12 canisters made for the production plus the HERO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2c-tMZSZtY
I am wondering if 11 of them are only STUNT versions?
There would be no reason to remove them from the case during filming, so they could just be "place setters" in the case.
They might not even have liquid in them....
The one he takes from the case (and in one shot), he shows that it contains liquid, but it wouldn't necessarily need to have
the rotating piece at the bottom with the larger beveled hole (this larger hole is so it can be captured by a slightly raised,
thin wall tube inside the chamber).
This "escape hole set up and rotating bottom" would only need to be on the HERO version.
Since there was a break in the scene, we saw that the canister (sitting next to the reactor) was already sitting there while the reactor cover was being removed (and it may not even be the one taken directly from the case).
He then picked that one up (the HERO version) and placed it into the chamber and twisted it.
When he placed the HERO canister into the chamber, he had to aligned the larger, beveled hole (drilled into a smaller diameter "disc", loose twist bottom)
with a "slightly raised, thin wall tube" (down inside the chamber), which would then hold it in place while turning.
So when the canister was rotated, this bottom cap never moved and the inner 1-1/4" tube came around to line up
with the beveled hole, allowing the 3/4" plutonium rod to fall straight through.
So, I think some of the close up pictures I've seen are showing the stunt versions (without all the details of the HERO version).
There may have been 3 versions, stunts, closeup and HERO ?
These are just my observations on how it may have been done
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I hope this helps a little.
propmaster2000
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