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I'd track down a replacement coil. Life is too short and plenty of rough cabinet 630s get scrapped for CRTs....Someone will have the part.
Aside from that, you are a fairly tedious recap (trust me I've done 2.3 recaps of RCA sets in this family and there is another waiting a turn on my bench), and possibly some power resistors and troubleshooting away from a working chassis. You can get lucky and have it work after just caps....Heck one of the later ones IIRC an 8TK29 console that came into my hands was still going on the radio and had a working TV till the vertical collapsed on the previous owner...Cabinet was in lousy shape so I changed just enough caps and parts for it to work and sold it (thus the 0.3 recap count).
Another option if you know a cabinet maker is to have a custom cabinet made for it in whatever furniture style you fancy....Heck if you reverse the yoke leads you could have a mirror in lid set with a faux pre-WWII looking cabinet.
If it has enough sentimental value to restore, but no cabinet the only limits to the cosmetics are your imagination, resources, and styling sensibilities.
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