Jim Burns wrote:

It was actually the switch. The switch was shorted out internally and one
terminal was shorted to the exterior case of the switch and ultimately to
the panel.

If that's the case, then the breaker's bad, too. A direct short like that should've
tripped it immediately.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.