Universal Boat Kill Switch Key Set, Safety Stop Connector Lanyard Cord Replacement for Mercury, Yamaha, Honda, Tohatsu, Johnson, Evinrude, Suzuki

Seven keys come on this lanyard. The description says so twice and says seven both times, which makes it the one number on the page. What it never does is say which key belongs to which switch, or how you would tell before you are standing on the boat with all seven in your hand. The hookup clip is plastic, the cord is nylon, and no length is given for either.

Seven keys, and no key to the seven

Seven brands are named in the same sentence as that count: Mercury, Yamaha, Honda, Tohatsu, Johnson, Evinrude and Suzuki. The sentence also claims the keys fit all kill switches. That claim is the supplier's and we publish it as theirs rather than as fact, because the same description elsewhere settles for most boat jet ski, for different types of boat engine, and for various boat models. If your switch is not one of the seven brands, nothing here says whether a key will suit it.

What the page says happens when it is pulled

On how it works the description is brief and the wording is worth keeping exactly. It says the tether attaches the boat operator to a switch, and that it will stop the engine from running if you are thrown from the boat or fall out of the captain's chair. A second passage is softer: pull the lanyard and the switch turns off, the engine stops, the boat slows and then stops, and this, in the supplier's own wording, helps to avoid accidents. Help is the word the supplier used, and it has not been strengthened here.

Key features

• Seven keys, counted twice: the description gives the number in two separate places and gives the same number in both.
• Brands the page names: Mercury, Yamaha, Honda, Tohatsu, Johnson, Evinrude and Suzuki.
• What the hookup clip is made of: plastic, described by the supplier as high quality, which is the whole of what is said about it.
• Cord material given: nylon.
• One sentence of use: the supplier's single line of guidance is to fasten the lanyard every time you turn on the boat, to avoid accidents. That sentence is the whole of it.
• Called a tether, a rope and a lanyard: the description uses all three for the same part, and kill switch cord as well.

Specifications

• Keys on the lanyard: seven
• Hookup clip material: plastic
• Cord material: nylon
• Brands named: Mercury, Yamaha, Honda, Tohatsu, Johnson, Evinrude, Suzuki
• Craft the page names: boats and jet skis

What is missing from this page

• The whole job of this part is to shut an engine down when the person driving goes over the side, and the listing gives it no rating of any kind. There is no breaking strain for the cord, no pull force, no temperature range and no service life.
• No standard, no approval and no certification is named anywhere on this listing.
• There is no warning of any kind here either. Nothing on the page covers testing the switch, what to do if none of the keys suits it, or what the set will not fit.
• No dimension is given at all: no lanyard length, no cord diameter, no key thickness, no weight, and no colour.
• The fit claim is an absolute and it is the supplier's. Seven keys to fit all kill switches sits in the same description as most boat jet ski and various boat models, and the softer wording is the one this page can support.
• There is no contents list. Beyond the keys and the lanyard, what arrives in the packet is not itemised.
• The search summary names six of the seven brands and leaves Evinrude out. The heading and the description both carry all seven.
• Three lines reached us damaged. The cord material reads made from nylon fibe with the last letter gone, so nylon is what we have published and the broken token has not been repaired. One passage on what the part does is missing a word, reading in the event you thrown from the boat, which is why we have quoted around that sentence rather than through it. A label at the head of one paragraph carries a full-width colon where an ordinary one belongs.

The seven keys and that list of brands are the whole of what you can check your own switch against, because everything else about how this part performs is absent from the page it is sold on.