Arc Euro Trade – Fantastic Service

[David CambridgeParticipant @davidcambridge45658]

Arc Euro Trade – Fantastic Service

[David CambridgeParticipant @davidcambridge45658]

I do hope I’m not breaking any forum rules by posting this, but I just wanted to pass on my very positive experiences with Arc Euro Trade. It’s probably also worth saying I have no professional or personal relationship with any engineering supplies.

As a total beginner, and with zero experience, it was a very prolonged and difficult decision on which machines to buy. It’s a lot of money to spend and not a decision I wanted to get wrong. As a consequence I spent a lot of time researching, and a lot of time talking to the ‘usual suspects’ asking the same questions probably more than once. Some firms showed no interest. Others firms were professional and helpful, and one particular individual went out of his way and far beyond the call of duty to give me truly unbiased advice. To regular readers of this forum you can probably guess that was Ketan from Arc Euro Trade.

Now, as it happens I actually bought Warco and I feel truly ashamed for that after the time Ketan spent with me. My decision simply came down to the fact that in the end the Sieg machines were just fractionally too big to fit between my lawnmower and coal store! None the less, I think Ketan and Arc euro trade really do deserve credit for helpfulness and unbiased advice.

Ketan – I will try and make up for it by making sure Arc Euro Trade are always my first port of call for tooling! Everybody else – everything I’ve ordered from Arc Euro Trade has arrived promptly, been good value, and good quality.

David

[David CambridgeParticipant @davidcambridge45658]

And does anybody know why every time I edit text in outlook and then paste it somewhere else it inserts strange characters. I've no idea where the – in the title came from, and I'm a software engineer by trade!!!!

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Hi David,

See the icon of a clipboard with a 'W' on it just above the editing pane? That's 'paste from word', it keeps your formatting but loses the strange characters, and should work for Outlook as well.

If all else fails use the middle one, it cleans everything up and pastes as plain text with no formatting or special characters.

The title doesn't seem to be able to handle extended Unicode characters, although you can type them into the editor.

Neil

[Les Jones 1Participant @lesjones1]

Hi David,
I suspect those characters are used for formatting the text. I normally past text into a simple text editor such as "notepad". I then copy and paste from there.

Les.

[StovepipeParticipant @stovepipe]

If we lose the "strange characters", there won't be many of us left on the forum !

(About Ketan's service – seconded.)

Dennis

[David CambridgeParticipant @davidcambridge45658]

For a profession I started off with C, C++ , embedded software and 3G protocol stacks. Then I moved on to databases, cloud, and C# – I can do all that stuff without problems but I can’t work MS office to save my life! My colleagues find the same. I can’t help thinking it’s got to say something about MS office usability! Still I digress as I didn’t start the thread for Microsoft bashing

David

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

LOL!

I started off on a mate's ZX80 and first learnt proper programming with punched cards on a Honeywell 6080 (once and once only – I rapidly hacked my way onto the monitors!)

Must admit, I love the latest version of Office, and Windows 8!

Sorry!

Neil

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

Hah I remember Apl..Bpl then Cpl..at C the joke was given up and Cpl became C

And fortran…..algol…god I feel old…
Always prefered working on the “bare metal”…
Even once had to clock in the bootstrap using hex thumbwheels….even this was luxury against the toggle switch predecessor. ..tell that to the young people today…*shakes head and mutters*

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

> Even once had to clock in the bootstrap using hex thumbwheels

One up from putting the bits in there with tweezers

Neil

[WindyParticipant @windy30762]

I have always had exhalent service from Ketan.

In this modern high speed internet mail order age I see no reason why other traders should not be as good unless stock has run out and has to be reordered.

I ordered some chest waders for my side of the hobby from Ireland at 8pm on Thursday and received them at 9-30am on Saturday this was free postage nothing special.

They are needed for next weekend as at last weeks regatta there was as much water in the waders as outside and being a fuller figure (fat) only certain waders have that bit extra room.

Some customers and traders can be a right pain in the backside at times but give credit to those that are good.

Paul

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