Always buy your breadboards from Tayda...

[Leevibe]

...and make sure you get the see-through kind so you can identify where the missing contacts are 

[selfdestroyer]

wow... just wow.

Cody

[rullywowr]

Must have been built on a Friday....

Wow.  Imagine trying a circuit out and not realizing this.  F&&k!

[Leevibe]

Yeah. As I'm putting the cart together, I'm thinking, 'It's a breadboard. What could go wrong with a breadboard?'

Haha!! This reminds me of Chromesphere's one legged tropical fish cap.

[pickdropper]

Yeah. As I'm putting the cart together, I'm thinking, 'It's a breadboard. What could go wrong with a breadboard?'

Haha!! This reminds me of Chromesphere's one legged tropical fish cap.

I always thought their 15% off coupon only affected pricing.

I'm fairly sure that "one legged tropical fish cap" is the name of a Monty Python sketch.

[lars]

Those blank contacts are so you can add spurious components to your design, for anti-cloning 

[blearyeyes]

I blame China.

[Stomptown]

This pretty much says it all! Lol...

[Leevibe]

Aah. I didn't read the fine print.

That row on the breadboard is for holding the non-functioning emitter pins of their transistors. It also works for their TL072 family of chips. Because they guarantee that at least half of each dual opamp package is functional, the empty row is a convenient placeholder: First, you determine which of the opamps is working, and you orient either pin 1 or pin 5 to the dead row. No more guessing which half of the chip is working! It's a great visual reminder.

Also handy for any of their range of one-legged caps. Can even be used as a cutting surface for very small loaves of bread.

Thanks Tayda!!

[chromesphere]

Hey leave my one legged tropical fish out of this...!  He's NAME is Nemo by the way...

[RobA]

Yeah. As I'm putting the cart together, I'm thinking, 'It's a breadboard. What could go wrong with a breadboard?'
...

I thought the same thing once when ordering from Tayda. My breadboard purchase sits on a shelf reminding me to only buy specific things from Tayda. I don't know if mine is missing any contacts because I really can't use it. I can't get any parts, even those with non-flimsy Tayda leads, to push into the board. I even resorted to trying to loosen the thing up by pushing 1N4001 leads into it. It didn't help.

[Lubdar]

Thanks for the heads up!!! I don't know why, but for some reason I just assumed that breadboards were straightforward enough that they couldn't be botched...

[Luke51411]

The cheapo one I got from tayda has super loose contacts and its hard to get components or wires to stay in. Or wait... maybe that was a cheapo I got from somewhere else I can't remember. I think I got one of the 400 point ones from tayda and it is reasonably useable but of course results vary with them.

[alanp]

I've got a smallbear one, and it's rare for circuits to work right for me on breadboard. (Partly why I typically jump straight from schematic to fab.)