John Stevenson said:Plus 20-40-80's
Bit of history first, the original 1-2-3 blacks were made by Starrett and the idea was they bolted together to form angle, tee's, used as packing or to bolt items to to preserve squareness.
One of those items that never had a specific designed use but was different thing to different people, very useful.
However at some stage these blocks went over to Taiwan and were copied but they drilled all the holes tapping size for 3/8" UNC, tapped some then hardened and ground them before changing the un-tapped holes to clearance holes.
Result is they wont bolt together as designed and since then millions of sets have been copied and made in India, and China. Even the Starrett ones are now wrong as they have them made out.
Ketan Swali said:Some clarification:
Small Set is about 75grams. Large Set is about 770grams. This is without the extra outside mail bag/envelope packing. ARCs original reply misplaced the decemal points when adding. Sorry!
Ketan at ARC.
George_Race said:Attention Mr. Ketan Swali
I am trying to buy 2 sets of the smaller blocks from your company.
So far I am very unsuccessful. All I am trying to do is find out what the exact PayPal price will be for the merchandise and shipping. My invoice, on your web site, showed the price to be a total of 29.67 BPS. When I go to process the payment it says that payment will be processed at the current exchange rate, but does not give a final price that i will be paying with PayPal.
After the third email to your web site information address, all I seem to be getting back is that they cannot give me a price in U.S. Dollars, and to go to the checkout page and pay the amount shown. Unfortunately, the final actual amount in U. S. Dollars is never shown.
I just sent an email with details a few minutes ago asking them to forward it on to someone who can help me. Hopefully it will be brought to your attention.
As model makers, I am certain that there are a lot of builders here on this site that would love to be able to purchase your small blocks. But, you must understand that knowing what we are paying, before the payment is made, is really necessary to keep from being overcharged with any kind of hidden or conversion fees, which we have all seen from overseas sellers.
Thanks for any consideration, I am sure it will be appreciated by many reading this particular string of information.
George
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pelallito said:Ketan,
Why don't you guys set up a way of selling those blocks in a different way to the US. Right now the S&H is horrendous!
I, for one, can't see paying more for S&H than what I am buying!
Thanks,
Fred
John Stevenson said:I'm in the UK and probably a bit too old to appreciate a pair, however the blocks are nice. ;D
John S.
John Stevenson said:I'm in the UK and probably a bit too old to appreciate a pair, however the blocks are nice. ;D
John S.
steamer said:Snip - tip your waitress...Snip
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