For whatever reason, there is a plague of cheap breadboards which are basically unusable. The sockets require too much insertion force, which intersects terrib

For whatever reason, there is a plague of cheap breadboards which are basically unusable. The sockets require too much insertion force, which intersects terribly with the trend of cheap resistors having very thin and weak legs which bend out of the way rather than insert. The BB830 from BusBoard Prototype Systems (search BB830 on Amazon) is one which is a bit pricey but doesn’t suffer from this problem. Tayda electronics is a great source of inexpensive resistors which dont suffer from cheap, thin leads.