I repaired a 310-8 headlight fuse blowing

[echris 1,425]

Today I was troubleshooting a blowing headlight fuse on my 1989 310-8. Both times it happened was after mowing with the lights on for 30 minutes+ so it was clearly an intermittent short.
After two instances of me being an idiot:

One: checking for voltage and not finding any when the battery was sitting on the bench behind me.
Two: checking for shorts using a continuity meter set on beep and thinking my headlight was shorted to ground. (It is dummy, literally a high resistance short to ground)

Anyway, after a lot of poking around, checking with a meter, being dumb, I found the black/blue wire under the engine was squished. I'm not positive, but I suspect it was the Attach-A-Matic.
I cut the squished part out of the wire, stripped, soldered, shrink wrapped it.
I just thought I'd post this here in case someone else has the same problem. Perhaps it's a common pinch point for the headlight wire on these models.

Edit: Title word bad. :\
 

Edited June 8, 2020 by echris

[echris 1,425]

I forgot to mention how I found the short.

After inspecting everything under the battery, I put it back in and troubleshot it the old fashioned way. I turned the key and headlights on and jiggled wires. I heard the tell-tale sparkles from somewhere under the front frame rails. And smiled. Found you, you stinkin' why I oughta...

[squonk 43,448]

The real old fashioned way is to let the smoke bomb out. Tried and true method perfected by Joseph Lucas “The Prince of Darkness “ 

[echris 1,425]

I'm an IT guy by trade and our saying is, "Sometimes you have to release the magic smoke to find the problem."