Help replacing strip light in moho (1 Viewer)

[Millie's Mum and Dad]

We need to replace a ceiling light strip and have managed to prise the diffuser off. The tube looks pretty standard - Osram L 8W/640 but we're not sure whether we need to remove the black covers from the pins on the tube (see first pic) or whether there's a connection beneath the ceiling fitting.
Can someone help please.

 

[MC 55 FUN]

The black pin covers look like insulators to me & should just pull off complete with the cables attached.

 

[tonyidle]

Just pull them off. It's the manufacturers cheapskate way of avoiding the need to fit the correct tube end connectors. Inside the black heat-shrink are metal tubes that slide over the pins of the fluorescent tube.

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[Millie's Mum and Dad]

OK. Thanks. We'll give it a go.

 

[RogerThat]

If it helps, half way down this thread is a pic showing one of those connectors removed