as I'm not sure the cryo process is a good idea for tubes but that's maybe just me
It's not, all it does is weaken the tube and cause vacuum leakage.
When you freeze especially this cold, different materials, they contract at different rates, then expand back at different rates.
And in a tube you have glass, high temp plastic or bakelite if nos, metal pins, different metals inside nickel in nos all sorts of different materials.
Cheers George