installing the SME V tonearm in the Technics SP10

Lew is correct about the square escutcheon creating the problem, not the platter dimension. I also have a JMW 10.5 arm which would have been difficult to mount because of its off-set mounting base. Unless you swing the spindle to pivot distance template way around to near a 3:00 position for the arm, the square interferes with that mounting base.

Apparently Technics intended only 10 or 12" arms to be installed with this table. And since Tubeperson has the Obsidian plinth, he will be limited to those arms where the mounting template arc falls within the dedicated armboard position.

Thanks Dover. Yes, it can physically fit. But I wonder how much of the SME overhang adjustment can still be accommodated? Meaning, is this arm at the closest point in the elongated slot so there remains room for standard adjustments with various cartridges?