About Garfield Pinblock Restorer

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Sorry about weighing in on Garfields so late. - computer in for repairs- brain
next-
The man I did my apprenticeship with, 25 years ago, told me that his father,
from whom he learned to tune, was a friend of Mr. Garfield (who's first name
was Bill, I believe). He told me that Garfield experimented with glycerin and
wood alcohol and after observing some improvement in pin torque, put the
product on the market. Since glycerin and alcohol are both clear liquids, he
would add a few drops of food coloring to each batch so it looked a little
more convincing as a chemical product. Sometimes, he used blue but usually
green. One time he got a complaint letter that accused him of sending out a
weaker strength product that didn't work as well as his original formula. When
he checked the batch, he had used less food coloring than previously, although
the glycerin and alcohol were still at 50% each.
	That was when he began carefully measuring the coloring additives. When he
decided that he was spending too much time with the product and away from his
tuning, he sold the formula, possibly to Schaff but I don't know for sure, and
they just sent out the colored glycerin with instructions to mix it with
"completely denatured alcohol."
	My mentor and I used blue food coloring with the batches we made.
	Since Mr. Hager has passed away, I regrettably cannot reconfirm or clarify
any of this, and now wish I had paid closer attention to his anecdotes. Since
I was young and impatient, I can only hope that I am now older and patient;
I've kind of given up on older and wiser.
John Stroup