I decided to tackle the spoilerboard next. I debated several options and decided to try something call slotwall. I bought a 4x8 sheet of slotwall and some sheets of 1/4” and 1/8” MDF to use as the real spoilerboard.

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I’ve found that the MDF is extremely flat and I’d prefer to ruin small little pieces rather then the slotwall.

This is what the profile of the slotwall looks like:

All of my woodworking jigs use 1/4”-20 hardware, so I decided to use that for my holddowns. I used 3-pronged Propell nuts along with a printed piece to make my T-nuts:

I wound up putting a recess on the bottom and used support:

This was removed quite easily. In hindsight, I probably could have made the T-nut a bit thinner and not needed support.

Here’s the propell nut installed:

And how it fits in the slotwall:

Installed:

Oops. I didn’t quite center the slotwall. The left most slot just clears the corner bracket, but the right most slot needed a wee bit of “adjustment”, which was done with a file:

The OnShape document can be found here. The STEP and STL files are here.

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