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Old 04-08-2006   #23 (permalink)
scoundrel1728
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Default Re: Photos from your compact cameras!

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Originally Posted by Mr. Pickles
I figured the skull wasn't a real one. Looked like a hinge pin on the side cheek bone by the back of the mouth. Yours has a removable head it looks like. I think his looks cool with the acid bottle beside it.
The cranium on mine opens up to receive a plastic brain. Fortunately, no attempt was made to reproduce the color or texture of that! The pin is actually a place to mount a spring, also visible in Latinbob's image, so the jaw stays closed but can be opened up if need be. This might also be done to a real skull.

I am wondering if the bottle of HCl is real though. I see no handle on the glass stopper. A cork or rubber stopper would be too difficult and dangerous to open if this bottle really contained concentrated hydrochloric acid. (I have handled the real thing.) The air bell at the top of this bottle also troubles me and seems to indicate that the bottle is lying at quite an incline from vertical and indeed may be as little as 15 degrees from lying on its back.
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