Excellent. You should see the difference pretty quick. Couple of points. As you reassemble, please note the bottom plate has the holes that are threaded. As you probably figured out, the long bolt screws into these. Not sure if they are sealed on the bearing surface side but the three tables i have all are sealed. If they are sealed, i would just tighten until they are hand tight. Not sure if you have the white table (lot of plywood that is sealed on sides and top with white corian or the grey table (mostly corian though i believe there is a plywood core. The white table is a little tougher to deal with because with 20 year old plywood, it can be a little brittle. There is a string online where a fellow maplenoll owner completely refurbished the white one and sealed the plywood exposed surfaces with a pliable material that hardened similar to corian. The grey signature table is a lot easier to deal with.
Concerning the material, it is an alloy that i believe has some aluminum and magnesium but it is a special alloy that could be highly polished to extreme tolerances. I have been warned by several experts that you want to leave it alone and do not try to alter it. It is very hard but brittle and was specially polished and each of the plates were matched. I have a few spare platters and spindles that i purchased from the guy i got my ariadne signature. One of those platters is ruined where a person tried to polish it to "improve" it. I know anything can be polished with the right materials but i am a firm believer in leaving that to people who understand how to handle this material. My understanding is that Dilger had a number of these plates made and that was one of the "expensive" components that made the table pretty expensive at the time. i have been very successful just cleaning about every 6 months with an alcohol pad and very soft microfiber cloth. By the way, make sure you put a little lube (the blue stuff if it was provided) in the brass fitting that the teflon pin fits in.
I am excited to hear how this works out for you.
Concerning the material, it is an alloy that i believe has some aluminum and magnesium but it is a special alloy that could be highly polished to extreme tolerances. I have been warned by several experts that you want to leave it alone and do not try to alter it. It is very hard but brittle and was specially polished and each of the plates were matched. I have a few spare platters and spindles that i purchased from the guy i got my ariadne signature. One of those platters is ruined where a person tried to polish it to "improve" it. I know anything can be polished with the right materials but i am a firm believer in leaving that to people who understand how to handle this material. My understanding is that Dilger had a number of these plates made and that was one of the "expensive" components that made the table pretty expensive at the time. i have been very successful just cleaning about every 6 months with an alcohol pad and very soft microfiber cloth. By the way, make sure you put a little lube (the blue stuff if it was provided) in the brass fitting that the teflon pin fits in.
I am excited to hear how this works out for you.