Zenith console

[DaveWM]

ok here is the deal, all tube zenith console. It had a brightener on it, I removed that, rejuv the picture tube and its playing now, decent pic, not the brightest but not bad, needs a mild convergence.

Question, do I start recapping or just leave it be. I has several of the plastic paper caps (the round brown ones) several white ceramic tube caps (1000v) and several electrolytics not counting the cans.

It's playing well but for how long....

it has the service save panel, so I was going to just lay it on its side, leave it all hooked up (no power of course) and start one cap at a time. I belive in do no harm but I also know that these caps are way past expected life.

Also it would be easy to just clip the old cap and pig tail on a new, I know not the prettiest but done neatly it would look fine. This minimizes the lead dress and stress on other parts that share the same mounting point.

Anyway just looking for some opinions, I rarely get a set that works this well to start with of this vintage.