the problem wasnt a capacitor :(

Some time ago i told you guys about an incident involving a vinyl disc player which had exploded. At first i thought it was an old capacitor that had exploded, however, it turned out that all capacitors were ok when i opened it. This leads me to think that the problem is actually something worse (and more expensive than buying the entire player instead). The only part that seemed to be not ok was the main supply transformer, which it seems to be a somehow common failure on old gear. But thats not the actual problem: tecnicians have told me that buying the trasformer is impossible and that repairing it would cost around 175-300€ and the whole player itself sells for around 170… I will try to use it without repairing and pray for it not to die