My Build - I blame you lot for this....!

[HiltonSteve]

Had a spare couple of hours today so decided to replace the temporary MDF bed that I put on the machine when I built it, the cutting fluid that I have been spraying when working with alumuminium has finally taken its toll, just one of those jobs that I kept putting off but just can't put it off any longer.

Looked at aluminium extrusion t slot plate but when I priced it up I stopped looking, decided to come up with something different.

Thought a nice piece of 20mm aluminium tooling plate would do the job...

So I now have a nice blank piece of plate and was thinking of drilling and tapping a series of M8 holes into it for clamping etc, I will plug the holes with grub screws when not being used so they don't get clogged up and will be leaving them blind so that I can contain fluids a little easier, but before I do I am open to suggestions for hole spacings and the pattern.

Well....???