How to change vacuum tubes on the VPI 16.5 ?

Thanks guys for all your help !

I had the switches cryo treated and my 16.5 works better then ever!

Hello Studio68, if you change tubes often you may want to get the whole assembly, including the black insert piece. Some folks change the tubes for dirtier/ cleaner albums. The old tube can be used for very dirty Lps and the newer for cleaner Lps.

I bought a second tube holder (the black plastic thing referred to above) so I can easily change tubes for the 2 step Audio Intelligent fluids. They suggest 2 tubes and 2 brushed to avoid contamination of the different types of fluid, 1 being enzymatic and 2 removing the enzyme fluid. They even have a step 3 that is just pure water, but that is too many steps for me and may not yield and better results.

Experiment with the pure water rinse step before deciding not to use it. Makes a big difference here to use that ultra pure water rinse step, but I'm using Walker Audio Prelude so there may be a difference.
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