Starter Switch Repair?

[delling3]

I have finally been able to extract the starter switch from my right hand control. It wasn't making closure, and I removed it thinking a cleaning and some dielectric grease would solve the problem. What I found is that the yellow/red wire is broken from the terminal in the switch housing. Has anyone successfully re-soldered a wire to one of these terminals? How did you go about doing it? Seems like i might end up melting the housing with the solder iron. Can the terminals be removed and reinserted?

Thanks.

[Placerville]

The trick to soldering something small is to use a small soldering iron. I have a pencil point unit (such as the one below) for small jobs. With these, you can do some very delicate work. Preparation is everything so, make sure your wire and the surface to which it will be soldered are clean and ready to solder. Clean them, put on a touch of flux and them 'tin' them with a little solder to get them ready for mating. When you finally get the two ready, put them into position and then just touch them with the iron. The 'tinned' surfaces will immediately melt together with only minimum heat.

[pierce]

I just replaced mine altogether when it went bad with this:
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index ... Value=SPDT

Works well, and fits into the housing.

[Bankerdanny]

It's not as hard to solder as it looks. I was able to re-solder mine and I am barely competant at using a soldering iron.