I just recently started to play around with electrics. I use a breadboard as a playground and I have to plug in and out my 9V battery so many times that the clip is now broken. The tip of the lead came off (see picture) and stuck inside the breadboard.
I found the lead of the clip is hard to work with in the first place. It's too easy to bend, and that makes it difficult to stick into the breadboard, don't you think? Do you have some kind of tricks to make it easier to plug in and out 9V battery, perhaps something with a stronger lead?
Best Answer
You could solder the ends onto some stiff wire pieces or (better) onto a 0.1" (2.54mm) pitch header (pull out some pins if you want more spacing than 0.1").
Put some shrink wrap around each wire if you really want to do a nice job. Source here. Naturally you'll need to thread the heatshrink tubing on before soldering, then slide it down and shrink it into place.
By the way, usually the back of those solderless breadboards can be peeled back or otherwise removed and the errant piece of wire cleaned out.