[morzh]

OK, so Jr and I tpok that one last look at it, made sure both secondary pins are free and measured between the primary and secondary. Sure enough we have 25K resistance between the two and in series with resistor 14 and 7 it gives us that 70K plus to the chassis.

Now Jr is gojng to extract the coil and we will try to see what causing the leakage. Short of a hidden resistor inside or an unaccounted for cap that is leaky (don't think we are going to get that lucky). It is very likely the xfmr is going to get rewound.

So at this point I would ask folks more experienced with tnis sort of things (rewinding, oscillator behaviour, coil baking etc) like Terry, Ron, and others to chime in and help; my experience with these is limited.