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This visitor was fascinated by the selection of parts in Houston's Electronic Parts Outlet store.
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You don’t need to just scour eBay to find the old capacitor or end-of-life graphics card. These brick-and-mortar stores that specialize in surplus and older electronics parts may have just what you need.

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