USS Constitution 1:70 Scratch
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A very clever solution Mustafa!
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Thank you.
drilling or milling square holes - you solved the mystery
Great work I always learn a lot from your build. I wish I had a milling machine.
nice problem solving Mustafa
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Many thanks for the comments and likes my friends.
Yes, Tony, the milling machine is a machine that every modeler should have. It really makes my life so much easier.
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Indeed!
Your pumps look great.
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Thank you so much.
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I tested with the beads I found at home to see how the pump would look when the pieces are put together. I am pleased with the look and hoping the pump will look better once it's painted. I will try to find smaller spherical beads.
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Are you going to try to add outflow pipes? (Picture from the Cross Section model)
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Yes, I will add those pipes once I find the appropriate size beads. I used the beads in the photos just for testing.
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I don't know exactly what this mechanism does, the anchor chain passes through the hole. It looks like some kind of clamp. These won't be very visible when the model is finished, but I wanted to add them anyway. At least I'll know they are there. 
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maybe interesting to read for you
ussconstitutionmuseum.org
The photograph below, taken on November 11, 1974, after Constitution had been refloated from Dry Dock 1 in the Charlestown Navy Yard, shows what appears to be a Navy Yard worker (in the hard hat with number “63”) installing an inner flange on the port hawse pipes. The cast iron hawse pipes are, essentially, sleeves that fit into the holes cut through the three layers of oak that make up Constitution‘s hull structure. The outboard flange is cast to the body of the hawse pipe. However, there is no inboard flange cast to the pipe body, which may be one reason the 1971 drawing was made. At that time, in the early 1970s, it may have been determined that the hawse pipes needed to have inner flanges that could be through-bolted to the outer flange, thereby locking the hawse pipe securely into the ship’s bow.
Charlestown Navy Yard workers on USS Constitution’s gun deck, November 11, 1974. The worker in the hard hat may be setting an inner hawse pipe flange in place. [Courtesy Naval History & Heritage Command Detachment Boston]
Through the Hawse Hole - USS Constitution Museum
Join us on July 23, as we celebrate “Old Ironsides’” much-anticipated return to the water! On that night, Dry Dock 1 will be filled and USS Constitution will. . .
ussconstitutionmuseum.org
The photograph below, taken on November 11, 1974, after Constitution had been refloated from Dry Dock 1 in the Charlestown Navy Yard, shows what appears to be a Navy Yard worker (in the hard hat with number “63”) installing an inner flange on the port hawse pipes. The cast iron hawse pipes are, essentially, sleeves that fit into the holes cut through the three layers of oak that make up Constitution‘s hull structure. The outboard flange is cast to the body of the hawse pipe. However, there is no inboard flange cast to the pipe body, which may be one reason the 1971 drawing was made. At that time, in the early 1970s, it may have been determined that the hawse pipes needed to have inner flanges that could be through-bolted to the outer flange, thereby locking the hawse pipe securely into the ship’s bow.
Charlestown Navy Yard workers on USS Constitution’s gun deck, November 11, 1974. The worker in the hard hat may be setting an inner hawse pipe flange in place. [Courtesy Naval History & Heritage Command Detachment Boston]