Has anyone ever thought of (and proceeded to) mod an old turntable?

My Godfather recently passed and one of the only things I kept from his belongings is a turntable (and his box of very old vinyls). I think it's a Micro Seiko DM-14, and it was very dirty, but I managed to clean it up pretty well, and the only thing that really needed repairing after all these years was the belt (of course, the original one had literally disintegrated into a gooey mess). It works.

Now herein lies where my mod project came into play. I realized my relatively modern amp doesn't have a phono input, so no preamp, so I just bought a cheap tiny preamp box from Amazon and bam it worked just fine. However, the prospect of having an external dongle that doesn't even have an on/off switch (thus always on) gizmo laying somewhere behind my amp or next to the turntable irked me. I then decide to see if I could internalize the thing.

And I did.

Is that something that would be of interest to anyone if I showed some pics of what I did here?

Thanks for listening to my TED talk lol