Review on 🔌 AUSTOR Preformed Breadboard Assorted Prototyping: Versatile Tool for Efficient Circuit Building by Jeff Kersey

I wouldn't call this product bad. It's serviceable, and while I had a few parts that didn't want to fit properly in the breadboard without bending everywhere, many of them worked fine. While the product claims it is "soft," I don't think it emphasizes how soft it really is. They bend just as well and easily as a piece of 0.8-1mm diameter solder wire, which my book says is not ideal for a breadboard. I get it (or is it really just a desire to make as much money as possible with the cheapest things you can find?). However, in my drawings I've shown the wire here alongside a piece of excellent, high quality 22 AWG copper-clad wire with high-temp silicon insulation, a 300-foot spool rated at 300 volts, only $3 more than these jumpers. The 30ft roll I have flexes when needed, but is very stiff in the sense that it doesn't flex what is pushed into the breadboard. The insulation of these jumpers melts very easily near a flame (lighter) and can ignite and also melts instantly near solder. iron at 250-300C. True, they are not intended for soldering. or throwing fire - you must consider that if something goes wrong in your breadboard experiment and causes excessive heat - you could have melted the wire insulation on your favorite breadboard and even on the pins. Bottom line - they're not advertised as some sort of top-of-the-line tumble. I feel the product is advertised for what it delivers, except for the "wire is a little soft" bit - they are much more flexible than I expected and the only reason I ordered them, was that I'm too lazy to sit here making DIY sweaters. (I didn't buy rolls of wire for that). Would buy again though - compared to some brands they are good on their own. My advice, save your leads that you've clipped from your components (as I've been doing for a while) and when you're sitting around doing nothing, solder them to the ends of those wires. This gives you nice strong leads to slide into your breadboard and also gives you that cheap jumper solution. I would buy them again. :)