This is probably another question with obvious answers, but Googling didn't help.
I bought an N-channel power MOSFET from Adafruit recently. I also bought a breadboard, also from Adafruit. However, the MOSFET doesn't fit directly into the breadboard when it's oriented such that its long side runs parallel to the long side of the breadboard. It does fit when it's perpendicular, but that's not particularly useful to me as that would mean that all of the pins would be electrically connected. Pushing harder on the MOSFET just makes the pins on the MOSFET bend. My best guess is that this caused by the clips on the breadboard not being able to properly clasp at the rectangular pins on the MOSFET. I've been able to work around this by running three M–F jumpers from the breadboard to the MOSFET's pins, but that's admittedly not a pretty solution. Various tutorials all indicate to put MOSFETs directly into the breadboard, so I'm assuming that jumpers aren't intended. Any ideas on how I could fix this? I'd prefer not to break either the MOSFET or the breadboard.