jolida 502b manual bias adjustment


owners of the jolida jd 502b, how you set the bias manually without losing all the skin on your hands? i'm lucky mine has the ez bias as well as the manual bias.
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I own the JoLida 502B. It was my first introduction to tubes. It is manual bias. Just use a long handled screwdriver...haven't burned myself yet. A 5 minute job at most.
the bias pots are not the problem it's where you put the probes to do the measuremants. one guy said use gloves or i guess find a meter with probes as long as chop sticks.
oh...ok - gotcha - I picked up an inexpensive multimeter from Sears. Probes are 4-5" long or so. It does take a little care to get a stable connection and when moving them, but again - no burns yet (famous last words).
This may be old news but, this is what I use on my Jolida 502A. It is a Bias Rite model #BR-4 by Weber. It shortens the bias time and allows you to make very accurate bias settings and compare each socket to make they are all the same at the turn of a switch. The test points on these amplifiers are not very good in my opinion. I love using the Bias Rite it has worked very well for me.