EO,
No offence intended or defence needed. Just that what appeared in your first post could be (and was) interpreted as refering to an unsafe practice, and I felt it was appropriate to highlight the "Right way" of doing things.
The procedure you relate in your final post indeed sounds just fine.
I reiterate, however, that "continually" (i.e several times) resetting a CB is bad in the air or on the ground if the cause is not known, and I have never seen anyone, engineers included, do so.
I think we've done this to death, and I'm glad to here the operation is back up and running.