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For over a year I have been buying random eBay parts and evaluating them and trying to find a way to differentiate the good parts from the bad. I found that there was too much inconsistency in the workmanship and installation hardware included with the products to make any type of classification of the parts. What makes my obsession even more interesting is the fact that I’m an Asian studies major who has studied Japanese and Chinese. So I set out to figure out where these parts were coming