RALEIGH, NC – FEBRUARY 2005-- Weller®, a Cooper Hand Tools brand, recently re-introduced its WSD81 digital soldering station, noting that it is recommended for use in lead-free soldering applications.
Product Line – The WSD81 Silver Series digital soldering station with WSP80 soldering pencil and WPH81 stand and sponge is the first of Weller’s Suggested Lead-Free Application products.

Features and Benefits – Immediate heat from the combination of the silver heating element and tip configuration allows fast, efficient soldering. The high output pencil allows work with lead-free solder and helps keep costs of the LT series tips low. Upgraded software provides faster cycling of the power unit and a standard setback feature has been added to save power and further extend tip life. The 95-watt station offers a temperature range from 150¾ F to 850¾ F with 80 watts of controlled power for work on high-mass components and boards. Fast recovery and minimal temperature loss, when making fast connections, is a particularly attractive user benefit. The unit is programmable using an optional WCB1 control module and is UL and cUL listed. It is ESD safe to protect sensitive components.

Applications – Production, rework, and repair of through-hole and SMT boards. Contact removal of ICs and QFPs using specialty SMT tips. Lead-solder applications. Heavy ground planes and multi-layer boards.

Available through – Electronics and industrial distributors and through catalog houses.

Consumer contact – Cooper Hand Tools Customer Service, Lufkin Road, P.O. Box 728,
Apex, NC 27502. Phone 919/362-1670. Web site www.cooperhandtools.com.

Media Contact: Doug Colafella – Burson-Marsteller
One Gateway Center, Twentieth Floor – Pittsburgh, PA 15222-1433
Phone – 412.394.6618
Fax – 412.394.6610
Email – doug_colafella@marsteller.com

Note to media: The Weller® brand is a Cooper Hand Tools brand. Cooper Hand Tools, a division of Cooper Industries, Inc., manufactures and markets many well-known brands of hand tools, chain, and electronic soldering products, including Campbell® chain, Crescent® brand wrenches and pliers, Lufkin® measuring tools, Nicholson® files and saws, Plumb® hammers, H.K. Porter® bolt cutters, Weller® soldering products, and Wiss® snips. Headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, Cooper Hand Tools has manufacturing facilities in six domestic and seven international locations, and has approximately 4,000 employees worldwide.

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