Husky start stop switches

[Al_Smith]

Most kill switchs use "quick connect" terminals .After a certain amount of vibration they loosen up .

Because the switch controls the low voltage side of the ignition system it doesn't take much resistance to render it ineffective .The needle nose option would seem a better approach than soldering the terminals .You know you just might need to change that switch some time and wouldn't that be neat trying to unsolder the terminals .It would hard enough soldering it in the first place and not melting the switch, plastic you know .

[Smurf]

Yeah like everything else must have a turn over . Have a few Old Pioneers and a Solo all have metal switches and have not became inoperative within 30 + Yrs. Those were the Days. Both my New Husky's have the Plastic Switches , so far all ok within a little over a yrs use. I will have to check with my Son's 460 and see if he indicates any problems. I did not hear of any lifetime warrant on the Ignition switches . I will have to follow up on that one  , unless Spike can quantify ?

[LorenB]

Huskies have start/stop switches???

I wish I had known.  I always have to pull the cord. 

[HolmenTree]

I just took a look at my Husqvarna 576XP AT and can see Husqvarna has fixed the old switch problems.
This saw no longer has the one piece enclosed switch, now the design is similar to Stihls switch. Up and down toggle that contacts 2 brass contacts. The improvement over the Stihl I see is there is no long plastic shaft from the toggle going across the width of the saw.

Willard.

[Yoopersaw]

Use a heat sink above the point your soldering or unsoldering.  A small pair of needle nose holding the connector above your point of heat will protect the switch by absorbing the heat you generate from your soldering pencil.  You need a pencil sized to the task, not a gun or hugh pencil.