Small Breadboards?

[SonicVI]

I'm looking for small breadboards, say 2"x3" or so, enough space for an opamp or a few transistors and related parts. I'd like to make sort of modules of od/dist/fuzz/tone circuits that I can easily connect together to try different combinations of input/output buffers, clipping, tone stacks, etc, but I don't want 6" long breadboards for each module.   Anybody know where I can find farily small ones?

[beatstrat]

Mine is that same size (or thereabouts); roughly 2x3 - I actually would like to have a larger one.  If there's a Radio Shack near you, you might find one there; not certain of it though.

[Mark Hammer]

You know, it might be useful to devise your own breadboard by using some of those machined socket strips that people normally buy to snip off three pins at a time for transistor sockets.  I find that conventional breadboards that have parallel rows of contacts along each side of a long centre channel can sometimes be confining.  One ends up having to run wire jumpers way over to the other side of the breadboard just to add a part or two.  If you're trying to work with something like a quad op-amp, things get really cramped and crazy really quick.

So, imagine you take something like a decent pad-per-hole board, and solder socket strips to it that result in something that is perhaps wider than it is long.  You may only need the blank centre channel to be long enough to accommodate two 14-pin chips with a contact row of space between them, but make ample use of 12-16 pins' worth of space extending out laterally from each IC pin.

Just a thought.  A bit pricey, but not dramatically pricier than a breadboard, and probably higher quality contacts and as much utility as something much larger (because it's longer).

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[CGDARK]

I'm looking for small breadboards, say 2"x3" or so, enough space for an opamp or a few transistors and related parts. I'd like to make sort of modules of od/dist/fuzz/tone circuits that I can easily connect together to try different combinations of input/output buffers, clipping, tone stacks, etc, but I don't want 6" long breadboards for each module.   Anybody know where I can find farily small ones?

Check this one:

http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&productId=20601

CG

[SonicVI]

Yes, that's exactly what I'm looking for, even has the power and ground rails.   

Interesting idea Mark. There's an electronics surplus store here in Houston that has a bin of those snap apart sockets, for 25 cents each (each being the 25 or 30 socket rows).

I'm looking for small breadboards, say 2"x3" or so, enough space for an opamp or a few transistors and related parts. I'd like to make sort of modules of od/dist/fuzz/tone circuits that I can easily connect together to try different combinations of input/output buffers, clipping, tone stacks, etc, but I don't want 6" long breadboards for each module.   Anybody know where I can find farily small ones?

Check this one:

http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&productId=20601

CG