[Arran]

From what I heard David Grimes was the chief engineer around the time that the 1937-38 modular chassis Philcos were designed. Maybe he was pissed off that his own radio company "Grimes Radio Corporation" went belly up and decided to take it out on the customers and repairmen?
This isn't the only set out there where an A-hole designed it, you should see the Canadian made Rogers Ten-60 I'm working on. Half of the components are mounted on vertically mounted circuit boards that they had to have installed before the band switch went in place. There are some resistors and capacitors that are mounted above the boards too that you can't get to without removing them, and the boards were connected into the circuits rubber covered wire that was rotted.
I swear they must have hired a Limey to design this thing, there is no way humanly possible to solder a ground lead from either of these boards to the chassis the way it left the factory without removing the band switch, and I am not removing the band switch. One thing I do know is that whoever designed it must have been sacked before they designed the 1937 and 38 models, those have huge chassis with no boards and lots of open space.
Regards
Arran