I have an acorn platen that I restored. They're worth spending a few bucks and some time to get back to nice.
Personally, I'd get rid of the boxes and the vise. You want access around the whole table.
I would also look seriously into getting the top re-ground. Yours is small enough that it should fit on a lot of larger Blanchards pretty cheaply. I would bet you could have that top ground in for less than a grand and it'll be like a whole new table. I paid $800 to have mine milled on a HBM and that was the hard way, mine was too big to fit on any of the local grinders. Just ask if any have the willingness to let it either sit around until they have free machine time, or schedule it to their liking. Don't go nutty with tolerances. I asked for just a clean up cut, not specifying any measured tolerance knowing the machines would hold a tolerance plenty fine for a weld table. I also told them to ignore any large gouges or huge voids/low spots so they didn't take off any more metal than necessary. Depending on wear, you would only need to grind off .05" - .125" max.
I also highly recommend if you must keep a vise on it you make the vise removable easily. You'll find having an uninterrupted flat top is very, very valuable. I made a bracket to mount my vise so I can easily pull it off when I don't want to use it.
Stronghand tools makes drop-in clamps for a fraction of the cost of the Weldsale/Acorn ones. Like, $100/ea vs $300-400/ea. They work fantastic and I see zero reason to pay big bucks for the Weldsale.
I will see if I can find some pics of my resto, it was a good project.
