Voice Of Music Record Player (circa 1936?)

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I have an OLD Voice Of Music record player which I believe must be around 1936
because there is a part that is stamped with this year (I think it is on the drive motor for the turntable). It's been around 15 or 20 years since I powered this thing on, but it worked great the last time I did. I've been thinking about pulling this out of hibernation, cleaning it up and seeing if it still works. I'm kinda thinking it's probably not a good idea to turn this old geezer on since it IS 71 years old now until I recap the power supply since (I guess) they were just made of paper and wax, but my thought behind it is that it worked GREAT when it was 51 years old so what's another 20 years. I figured 20 years ago that they would have been dried up, but as I said it worked perfect back then.
I thought it would be cool to be able to keep it 100% vintage and keep the old caps in as long as they still worked. Which brings me to this question...if I did this and the caps eventually went out on me, would/could this cause any damage to other components. If not I thought I'd just keep them in for as long as they worked then if they eventually go out, then do a recap at that point.

What are your thoughts on this??

Attachment 48580Here are a couple of pics........