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Step down transformer wire color code

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This stepped the voltage WAY up (200Vp2p was my first measurement) and buzzed a lot. To test I (very quickly) hooked up 120V to the pairs and measured the other wires with my scope. My first thought was that the 'other side' had pairs of wires so it must be the side with the primary. My experiments to find out what the primary wires are: After reading about how to find out by measuring resistance, I found that the primary wires should be about 4-8ohms I measured all the combinations of wires on each side and applied mains to the transformer. On the 'other side' the wire go as follows: Red, Red, Yellow, Grey, Yellow, Blue, Blue On 'one side' the wires go as follows: White, Yellow, Brown, Orange, Red, Grey, Black

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Unfortunately I threw out the amp and didn't write down the number and now I am trying to use the transformer to build an audio amplifier. This is from an old solid state audio amplifier with an AM/FM tuner.

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