[Amps] titan 425 dimming ect. update

[mike george]

hi mike k6nhv.
thanks for all the help in jan. for the problem with this amp. several comments were spot on. the soft start was the problem and i found it after chasing the smoke to its source. after tearing down far enough to get to things i found the 10 ohm 25wt resistor was not being shorted out. three 470 ohm resistor in parallel going to the coil of the soft start relay had failed. one read 580 ohms, the other two went open so the ry never engaged. i changed most of the parts in that circuit and put it back together and all was well...for a while.
i had only used it a few times when i turned it on and heard or felt? (had my head phone on and feet resting on the power supply) a thump. the amp was dead. long story short, i started eliminating sections at a time until i was down to the transformer coming on ok by its self.  as soon as i plugged the h.v. secondary plug back into the rectifier board fuse #2 blew again.thats the one on the primary winding that has the soft start and also goes to the higher voltage of the two secondary winding's. i did not find a problem checking with dvm on R-200 scale, but when i went to the 2k scale i found a reading of 1,090 ohms from the primary to the secondary on those two.windings

poking around i found mention of another person with same thing-fuse only blew when the secondary was plugged in just to the rect. board with nothing else connected. strange problem the article said.

so now not sure where to go. im an old fart on ssi and i got quite a bit invested in this old girl already so can't just toss it and go buy another, but can't spend a fortune on it either. any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. don't know if this transformer is still available but understand when it last was it was very costly. perhaps someone is making a replacement or maybe there is another available that will work in this application? 
thanks again for the help and to those who make this forum available. 73 mike