stan2004 posted:There is the brute-force approach of hooking a car battery (or the like) to blow out a short...smoking/melting/starting-fire to the offending track section. Not sure that's a "helpful suggestion" though.
Where i retired from, we had to install shielded RF screen rooms and invariably there would be shorts between inner and outer screens. We used high amperage power supply and zapped those shorts. Made a noise similar to bug zapper!! 
