Summit 2ba-221 tube?

[calaverasgrandes]

I picked up one of these the other day. My local pro audio store has a yearly blow out on loss leaders, discontinued, lines they dont carry anymore etc. Got a significant discount, much below the MAP.
It works as advertised. Got a couple of nice fat bass tracks with a clean direct plus an overdriven amp sound. The tube does a nice job of smoothing out the mids.
BUT being a tube fan, I must know how to get the current tube out. On popping open the chassis I notice the tube is in a shield can, like on old guitar amps and some radio gear. the socket of the tube is then mounted to a PCB daughterboard which mounts perpendicular to the main PCB. There is another PCB daughterboard which interferes with pulling the can off of teh tube. An it is so close that I am not sure if I could get teh tube out of its socket without bending the pins it mounts to.
Anybody know the trick to getting access to the tube?
Anybody else playing with these?

[A-Barr]

Can you unscrew one of the boards from the chassis?

Don't forget to drain them caps before diggin' around in there....

I would be curious what brand tube is in there if you manage to get it apart.

Hm nevermind, I actually found a pic of the guts online:

http://psk31.cocolog-nifty.com/digitalm ... a221_a.jpg

looks like you can't do that. Are the daughterboards socketed? They look like the might be removable, no?

[calaverasgrandes]

well see thats the thing, the kind of pins looks like something that I have seen be socketed in some computer gear, but I also have seen some audio gear with the same kind of pins NOT be removable. I gave it a nudge and it doesnt seem to want to go anywhere. Maybe it'll yield with more coercion.But I dont want to mess this guy up. Even if it was only about $300.
Thanks for diggin up the pic BTW.
Did some experimentin with a bluemax (on manual) in the sidechain. nice to compress between the SS input and the tube stage.
The hipass and impedance matching are fun too.