You might be able to get away with that. From reading the other posts I dont think that it is just your resistor that is broke. Yes the resistor controls the other speeds, But high is almost no resistance.Might wanna try jumping the blower wires to see if it will come on. Then to get you by until you get another job you could wire it hot and put a on/off switch inline. I hope I made some sense in any of this.