So I went to Home Depot today to buy a new spoil board for my Bot. I've been using 3/4" MDF for years. I happened to notice that the 3/4" particle board was roughly half the price of the MDF and I started to grab a sheet but I'm a creature of habit and went with the MDF once again instead.
One annoying thing about MDF as a spoil board is that it leaves little "pooges", slightly raised on the surface when you extract hold-down screws and these need to be sanded down for a completely flat surface.
Has anyone tried the particle board as a spoil board? I'm not asking you guys with vacuum hold-down systems. I know what you use. I'm asking the stone-agers like me that still screw and/or clamp their substrates down. Anyone tried it?