Just realized my alternator was grounding out through the brake line

Last Tuesday I was chasing a dead battery on my '68 Cutlass in my shop outside Tulsa. I checked all the usual stuff, cables, connections, even pulled the alternator to bench test it and it passed fine. After 2 days of frustration I finally looked under the dash and found where the alternator bracket had worn through the insulation on a wire that was rubbing against the brake line. Replaced the wire with a proper grommet and relocated the bracket, battery charges fine now. Anyone else had a weird electrical gremlin turn out to be a simple physical rub?

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