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rdl:
The blue crinkle paint is what my two Radio Shack boards have. I bought them back in the late 80s. So to me that is more confirmation that, at that time anyway, time Radio Shack was selling re-branded 3M boards.
knotlogic:
So I purchased one of the Assembly Specialist breadboards, the full size SS252 model (the breadboard by itself without the metal mounting plate), and had a bit of a surprise.  It's the breadboard by itself without the metal mounting plate.

I should mention that I've never used or seen one of the 3M breadboards before, so I didn't think to look out for this.

It turns out that the bus rows along the sides aren't spaced 0.1" apart like I expected.  This isn't a fault in any way of the product itself, just that I have one of these SparkFun Breadboard Power Supply Sticks which are designed to plug straight into a breadboard.  And in this case, they can't.

As an aside, I also, for some reason I can't quite remember, purchased one of Assembly Specialist's DS293 "3-row Distribution Strip 6 rows of 6 connected 4 tie-point terminals", and the rows on that are spaced 0.1" apart.  I wonder if the same is true for the 2 row version, which would make it different from what comes in the full size breadboard.

Again, not a complaint about the product.  Just an unexpected finding.  :)

I also wonder what breadboard SparkFun designed that power stick for.  I have one of those brand-x-in-an-orange-box breadboards and it doesn't fit in that either.  While the adjacent bus rows on that are 0.1" apart, the rows on opposite sides of the board don't linen up with the mount points on the stick.

(Edited for clarity)
tooki:

--- Quote from: knotlogic on July 25, 2018, 06:33:42 am ---So I purchased one of the Assembly Specialist breadboards, the full size SS252 model, and had a bit of a surprise.  It's the breadboard by itself without the metal mounting plate.

I should mention that I've never used or seen one of the 3M breadboards before, so I didn't think to look out for this.

--- End quote ---
No offense, but the product images show clearly which items have a baseplate and which don’t. (I was just looking at the website earlier today.) No baseplate in the image = no baseplate in the mail.
knotlogic:

--- Quote from: tooki on July 25, 2018, 09:36:24 pm ---No offense, but the product images show clearly which items have a baseplate and which don’t. (I was just looking at the website earlier today.) No baseplate in the image = no baseplate in the mail.

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Oh it wasn't the lack of a baseplate that surprised me - I wanted the one without a baseplate.  It's the way the bus rows weren't spaced 0.1" apart.  ;)

Now if I *had* received a  baseplate, that would have been a surprise.
tooki:
Really weird wording, dude. You said it was a surprise, and the thing you mention is the lack of baseplate.

"Huh, this is weird. This fish tastes like chicken." - "OK, why are you surprised that this fish tastes like chicken?" - "Oh, it's not the flavor that surprises me. I didn't want broccoli."
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