Hook a test light up between B+ cable end and B+ battery post. Light will be on if you have a short somewhere. It will help to pull courtesy/dome light fuse/s and clock fuse while doing this so the test light will go completely off when you find the short.
Then start un-bolting and un-plugging alternator wires.
Plastic in-line fuse holders are for accessories on this car.
The big charge and power supply wires would have/should have a short section of fusible link wire protecting them. Don't know if they're on the back of the alternator or down on the starter + post. If behind the alternator, it may have been one of them that smoked instead of the alternator itself.
The 10 awg that got hot run from B+ to back of alternator? Or back of alternator going into the harness down to the starter? Or something else?
B+ post grounded out, with engine running, should have blown a fusible link wire or come really close to it depending on how fast you got the hood back up.
I'd be kinda gentle while un-hooking and moving wires while watching the test light. Move too much at once and might break a short loose and not know where.
Clay
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