Need help with contacts

[Farlander]

Hey folks,
I have a 32 plate design, 12"x5" 304ss, 26 gauge.   An alternating rubber band pattern separates the plates; one in the middle, then 2 on each outside edge.  So it lines up something like this:
___ ____
_ ____ __
___ ____

where the lines are the plates, the blank spaces are the rubber bands wrapped completely around that plate.  Bag of 500+ rubber bands = $4.99
Stainless steel sheet cut into plates = $40

I can't figure out a good way to make isolated contacts to my power supply.  I want to charge up all the plates, i.e. + - + - + - no nuetrals.  So far the only idea I can come up with is to dog ear the corners of every other plate and drill a hole through the remaining corners and pass a bolt through it, but thats very tedious and I lose surface area.  I have some left over ss in long strips that might be useful too.  Any suggestions?

[triffid]

I assume you want to hook them up in series?Dog earing them seems to be the way to go(to me). And connecting each plate to the next with wires.A bolt or two through all of them implies you are hooking them up in parallel.Triffid

[triffid]

I like the idea of using rubber bands to space the sheets from each other but leave a rubber band on a doorknob for a year and they fall apart when you touch them or try to take them off.What about old bicycle inner tubes?
Triffid