Using the Plate Layout I drew up I'm drilling the holes in the plates. These holes will accept the nylon bolts that keep this assembly together but insulated. Notice that where the corners were trimmed, only on one side, I've laid the plates out staggered. One on top with the corner cut off on the upper left, then the next one with the corner cut off on the upper right. This way when I drill the smaller threaded holes for the attaching stainless steel bolts only one set, half the plates, will be connected electrically. More on this later in this assembly. I believe the 4 holes I drilled in the center for the nylon bolts may have been excessive. Two holes centered top and bottom would probably have worked just fine. On this particular set of plates I cut more corners, diagonally, than my Plate Layout drawing showed. This way I can connect the wiring, positive and negative wires, either at the top narrow, or across the top with the plates laying down horizontally. More flexible should I need more clearance in either direction, I can change the set up quickly. My drawing doesn't show this, but you can improvise like I did should you feel it necessary. When drilling these plates I kept them even and numbered them with a magic marker so I could keep them in the proper order to keep perfect alignment. In order to be sure they didn't move I clamped these on the first drill hole and stopped. I inserted a bolt with a nut through the newly drilled hole. This helped preserve my alignment should the plates try to move. Once I drilled the second hole I inserted another bolt. Once two bolts were inserted I could drill the remaining holes, including the smaller ones in the corners, without worry the plates would move.

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