Steag Firstlight 4x4x0.5 Heating Element w/ Lifting Bar Stand DVD Tool

Steag Firstlight 4x4x0.5 Heating Element w/ Lifting Bar Stand DVD Tool

This is a Steag Firstlight heating element measuring 4 x 4 x 0.5 inches, mounted on its integrated lifting bar stand assembly. The unit was pulled from a DVD manufacturing tool and includes the full stand, wiring harness, multi-pin connector, brass fittings, and spring-loaded lift mechanism. A danger label on the unit indicates a maximum operating temperature of 300°C.

Specifications & What's Included

• Brand: Steag Firstlight
• Heating platen dimensions: 4 x 4 x 0.5 inches (approximately 101 x 101 x 12.7 mm)
• Platen material: aluminum
• Maximum rated temperature: 300°C (per danger label affixed to unit)
• Base/stand: black anodized aluminum lifting bar stand with spring-loaded arm
• Wiring: high-temperature orange wire leads with white multi-pin connector
• Terminal/connector block: gray multi-position terminal block visible on underside
• Brass fittings and actuator block on left-side assembly
• Thermocouple or sensor lead visible (orange flat ribbon lead at base)
• Includes: full stand assembly, wiring harness, and all mounting hardware as shown
• Removed from: DVD disc manufacturing/replication tool

Applications

Steag Firstlight was a German manufacturer of optical disc production equipment, active primarily through the 1990s and 2000s during the peak era of CD and DVD manufacturing. Their tools were used in disc replication facilities for processes including bonding, curing, and thermal treatment of optical disc substrates. Heating elements of this type provided controlled, high-temperature contact heating to disc substrates or tooling surfaces as part of automated DVD production lines. The integrated lifting bar stand allows the heated platen to be raised and lowered onto a workpiece — a common mechanism in lamination, bonding press, and thermal stamping stations. This type of heating assembly is also of interest to researchers and engineers working with custom thermal fixturing, laboratory bonding presses, or specialized semiconductor and materials processing applications that require a compact, high-temperature contact heater with a mechanical lift stage.