Do I need an all-tube spring reverb unit?

I ran into a deal on a '68 Traynor TR-1 reverb unit to match my '68 Traynor YVM-1 head. This unit was literally designed to go in the Hi-Z effects loop of my head. Shes all tube, handwired with a great Hammond tank. Basically a fender with a different control set and different input and output impedance. Because she is not designed to go ot front of the amp she can be used as an all tube overdrive/boost if you turn the input gain up and drop the reverb mix to zero and then plug the output into the highest gain input of your tube amp (pete Townshend used to do this trick with reverb units). There's also another trick where you plug your guitar into the footswitch jack of some vintage reverb units and it gives you a nasty tube fuzz from the single 6K6 or 6V6 tube that drives these old reverbs and I have feeling the Traynor may do this too, so its like getting 3 effects in one.... on the other hand I have never paid this kind of money for an effect in my life :-( Not even a multi-effects rack for the home studio! Not even for a Roland Chorus Echo unit! Also, it may need servicing right away. It doesn't have a 3 prong chord and though it works fully it may be a little noisy from old, deteriorating capacitors. These units are very rare and collectible having only been produced for 2 or 3 years (typically made to order and not available in stores). They are rare as hens teeth and may become very valuable in the eyars to come. They have already doubled in value in the last few years, so if I hate it then if I sit on her for a few years I should make a tidy profit. On the other hand I have more stuff than I know what to do with and am super happy with my guitar sound.

I am really on the fence because I just love collecting old junk, but I'm not sure how this jives with the MIDI rig I've just built.... I've been trying to modernize and this is not a modern sort of piece to add to the rig. On the other hand she is old, rare and undeniably cool... either in the loop of the YVM head for some fender spring OR out front for a Pete Townshend KERRANG! Although the amp in question can already handle that Tommy-era crunchy, punchy thing....

Thoughts?

I'd go for it! If those are the original caps in there and they go bad you could recap it! And now days even some of the "cheaper" caps are a bit better quality than the ones back then. I love reverb units! They all seem to have their own personalities. I've got some great results from Nichicon capacitors!

I'm pretty much a Mallory 150 guy for coupling caps. I am good with whatever for electrolytics. Sprague Atoms aren't the only decent option anymore. F&T electrolytics seem okay and they are cheap. But yeah, being into brit tone I tend to like the mallories over the spragues. They sound a whisker brighter in the same circuits and just seem more hifi when clean and higher bandwidth once the amp is spitting flames to me. And I like that. There's no scientific basis for this and I wanna call it all bunk, but I just feel like there's something to it even though its subtle and maybe impossible to measure. That and I have tons of 150s in different common values around from m last big Mauser order when they were running a sale on them.

After due deliberation I am passing on the reverb unit. I am okay with echo, but reverb is kind of a weenie effect for oldsters and SRV worshippers. I make my own reverb, even outdoors. As my son says "Daddy make loud music, ah ah ah!"

Even using it as a distortion effect is kinda "meh." My quintessential Pete Townshend tone is pretty much guitar---> amp. I have that amp tone now, so I can stop searching. Man I finally really wound the Traynor out. Aww hell shes amazing. Not quite as loud as a jet engine. I musta played "pinball wizard" four times.... I am getting seduced by the EL34 side of the force again.