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Early Childs 0000 miller with its complex underdrive countershaft and motor unit.

A true indication of the millers size--a table just 2.5-inches wide

The front legs are missing but the picture clearly shows the long casting that
provided a fulcrum point for the countershaft belt tensioning lever.

Acme 1/2" by 10 t.p.i left-hand thread for the elevation screw

Childs Model Mk.1 00000 horizontal miller with a side-mounted spindle

Details of these machines have been hard to discover, though we now know that it was built in at least two versions--what we might call the Mk.1, with traditional rounded castings, and the more modern-looking, rectangular Mk.2. Both had the column ways on the left-hand face of the column with the Mk.2 having an unusual table some 20 inches long but just two inches wide.


	Childs Model 00000 Mk.1 horizontal miller and its modified drive system


	Childs Model 00000 Mk.2 horizontal miller


	Childs Model 00000 Mk.2 horizontal miller showing the enormously long (20" x 2") table for such a small machine

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