My machine started life as an AXYZ millennium. And it came with a table made from extruded aluminum with slots in it. It's ~3/4" thick.
I have always laid a piece of MDF over it so I do not mar the table. This has always been an extra step. So I was thinking why not just replace the table with a sheet of MDF, I can mill the slots right in the table. I have ~6.5" of Z height, and for the stuff I do the extra thickness of the MDF on top of the aluminum doesn't make a difference.
So I'm curious what you all think. Would you keep laying a piece of MDF over a slotted aluminum table? Or would you just replace the table with MDF?