[TR] Wonky Turn Signal Switch (TR6)

[pdqtr6 at comcast.net]

Help!! I'm frantically trying to get ready to go to Armagh for the Roadster Factory Summer Party, and I'm in the middle of an electrical crisis. My turn signals (front, back and both sides) stopped working this year when I started the season. I have used Dan Master's "Yellow Bible" to trace the fault. Today I decided to look at the actual switch, and much to my horror, I found the wiring at the switch in a mummy-wrap of black tape. A sure sign that a DPO has committed some crime there in the past. Sure enough, the "common" wire (light green / brown stripe) was just sitting there in the midst of the mess with no connection to the switch at all! Clearly a new switch is required, but is there anything I can do temporarily to get my turn signals to work until I arrive at TRF? It's too late to order it now as I'm leaving on Wednesday, but some McGiverish ideas would be welcome indeed... 

Also, my brake lights are on vacation, but that should be a simple fix since there isn't much to the circuit and I can get another switch (if needed) at my FLAPS. 

Thank you... 

Tom Walling 
'73 TR6 
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