{"id":30851,"date":"2021-11-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=30851"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:45:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:45:29","slug":"thoughts-convenience-never-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20211119\/blogs\/thoughts\/thoughts-convenience-never-stops","title":{"rendered":"[Thoughts] Convenience never stops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"decob-3710938408\" class=\"decob- decob-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/advertise\" aria-label=\"ad_sample_1456_180_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png 1456w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-1024x127.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-768x95.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1456px) 100vw, 1456px\" width=\"812\" height=\"100\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/b42d61d4595e6e1cbb1890fbe3663f81-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/b42d61d4595e6e1cbb1890fbe3663f81-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/b42d61d4595e6e1cbb1890fbe3663f81-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/b42d61d4595e6e1cbb1890fbe3663f81-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/b42d61d4595e6e1cbb1890fbe3663f81-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/b42d61d4595e6e1cbb1890fbe3663f81.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you don&#8217;t know something, you might have to replace it through ASSY, but a little research often turns up compatible parts. <br>These days you learn facts you didn&#8217;t know before. <br><br>The shopping never stops. Is that good or bad? <\/p>It&#8217;s a puzzling situation.\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it came to shopping, I&#8217;d go to Tokyu Hands, home centers, Akihabara\u2014all sorts of places. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can only choose from what&#8217;s in stock, so you never discover anything better, and there&#8217;s no room to learn. <br>If you can research anything you want, it&#8217;s kind of scary in a way. <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monotaro.com\/p\/1167\/9842\/\">The other day my TIG welding torch switch broke, so I ordered a generic Weldcraft switch. <\/a><br>I could just buy the same lever-type switch as the Daihen and be done with it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monotaro.com\/p\/1167\/9937\/\">but there&#8217;s also a push-button type <\/a>available, so I clicked to order both. <br>You start dreaming\u2014maybe it&#8217;ll be easier to press. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It arrived right away (a few days ago), and I wired it up with a quick-disconnect coupler for easy swapping and installed it. <br>Here goes\u2014click! <br>Hmm. <br>The lever length makes it feel heavy. <br>I switched back to the lever type. <br>Click! Yeah! This is it! The lever type really is the reliable finish. I take too many chances and usually fail, but every so often I find a gem that really shines, so I keep doing it obsessively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For better or worse, convenience never stops. <br>How&#8217;s your year-end shopping going? <br><\/p>Work requests are welcome from February onward (&#8216;\u03c9&#8217;)\u30ce\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t know something, you might have to replace it through ASSY, but a little research often turns up compatible parts. These days you learn facts you didn&#8217;t know before. The shopping never stops. Is that good or bad? 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