thanks for all the help on this,I decided to take the transformer apart and check the fuse. the fuse was bad. It looked more like a cheap diode or something.but I wired it back up and turned up slowly with a variac. I checked voltages and and everything seemed to be alright.So i played through the amp for about an hour and it seemed to work well. I guess it might have been a bad fuse,but I'm going to keep checking it for a while. because most of the time a fuse blowing mess means something else is messed up,but maybe I'll be lucky. thanks for all the info guys I appreciate it very much.