Yesterday's task was fixing the indicator stalk, which would not stay up on a right turn.
The cause for this is the wearing down of small ridges in the metal inside the switch. The remedy is to pull the switch apart and grind the tiny grooves a little deeper, so the stalk will stay in place.
This was fiddly and awful. The switch was never designed to be pulled apart, so I had to drill out rivets and reassemble it with glue and a cable tie. Once inside the job was easy enough, just carefully grinding away with a Dremel. Putting it back together was the hard part.
On the first go, I had fixed the original problem, but I had created another, as the high beams were stuck on. So I pulled it all apart again, and fiddled away some more. Second time, the blinkers work, but the high beam is hypersensitive, so the lights flash like mad whenever you try to indicate. Third time, I got it right. But now the indicators will only self cancel occasionally. But I can't be bothered to pull it apart all over again. The most annoying part was that I couldn't just plug the switch back in to test it, I had to screw it all back into place as the earth went through the screws and the mounting bracket. So it was incredibly fiddly and time consuming, but at least the most glaring problem with the car is finally fixed.