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Originally Posted by laultima
I would probably avoid wood for a base unless you have something under each component, I think we used plexy. We had screwed a bunch of stuff onto wood to make a test board to mess around with, and after awhile it started to smoke. 
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Wood is fine, as long as you don't try to run current through it. 330 has used wood for I don't know how long (5 years minimum) without an issue. We even hogged out the base last year and it held up to everything we could throw at it.
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