Spindle-To-Pivot Distance

Have you experienced this?

Well, this collection of answers gives me a good grounding.  And a minimum of snotty gay comments like I get in other forums.  Thank you all.  I could as well mount the arm off the original 'table but I think that there's something to having a strict connection from platter to tonearm.  But there's certainly a hierarchy of considerations.
Over and out.  Thanks.

This is all really good stuff.  Thank you all.  I think I'm going to mount the turntable on an oversized plate, mount the tonearm where the edge of the turntable platter is closest to the platter, and put the darn thing where the manufacturer says to put it.  It looks kind of goofy but so do I. I ran the vinylengine calculator and the numbers that it gave me correspond to the alignment points on an ancient cardboard protractor that I have, so if it ends up wrong well, what can I do.