Product category: Electronics Manufacturing Materials and Consumables
News Release from: Cooper Tools | Subject: Weller LT/LF soldering tips
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 11 August 2004
Soldering tips cut the
cost of lead-free working
A new family of Weller lead-free soldering tips (LT/LF) from Cooper Tools offers superior operational life at prices up to six times less than those of the current equivalent market leading products
Potentially, therefore, this dramatically reduces customers' costs of lead-free soldering consumables. Coupled with the latest 80W digital and analogue Weller electronic solder stations, and WMP or WSP soldering irons, which offer rapid response times and accurate temperature control, the company provides highly effective and economic solutions to troublesome lead-free soldering problems.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 11 August 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
Related stories
Small-run metal parts produced fast
Refined to the highest levels to rapidly deliver burr and stress free custom solutions, Tecan offers a 48hr turnaround service for photo-chemical machined (PCM) or 'photo-etched' metal parts
Silver-filled epoxy for flexible conductive bonds
The flexibility of Elecolit 3653 makes it ideal for applications that are subject to vibration or rapid temperature changes, thermal shock, twisting or buckling
The new Weller LT/LF soldering tips feature significantly thicker iron plating, which is able to cope better with the aggressive nature of lead-free solder and its higher melting point, owing to a higher tin content.
In addition to combating premature wear, the thicker iron plating on the new tips still exhibits good thermal conductivity, enabling effective heat transfer to the solder joint without increasing process temperature and the risk of thermal stress to components.
A major advantage of the new tools, making them so much less expensive than others available, is the ability to detach the actual soldering tip from the high value heating element and heat sensor.
This enables the user merely to replace this part when it becomes worn, as opposed to the whole assembly, which is the case with alternative products.
There are six different tip configurations available now in the family: chisel tips (four types), long chisel tips (two types), round tips (two types), round tip spades (three types), gullwing (one type only) and knife tips (one).
• Cooper Tools: contact details and other news
• Email this article to a colleague
• Register for the free Electronicstalk email newsletter
• Electronicstalk Home Page
Search the Pro-Talk network of sites
