There is absolutely no reason for you to continue using 70-year-old
gaskets on your Rolmonica.  Unless you have unlimited lung capacity,
you will wear out playing it.  It will be leaking all over.  Besides
gaskets, the other main reason for it being so leaky is the reed flaps.
Make your Rolmonica play like new with very little work.

As some of you know, I had a die made to make replacement gaskets for
the Rolmonica out of coroprene or cork/neoprene gasket material much
like the original.  I also had a roll of rubber tubing specially made
to exactly duplicate the door gasket.  I am offering a complete
"gaskets only" set for the Bakelite-enclosed Rolmonica for $12.00.

For this you get not one but two 1/16"-thick tracker bar gaskets along
with two of the rectangular gaskets, as well as the white natural gum
rubber tube gasket that glues all around the Bakelite door.

In back of the metal tracker bar is the gasket with the holes, and the
harmonica is behind that.  This gasket is sometimes 1/16" thick and
sometimes 1/8" thick, so I send two 1/16" thick gaskets.  For the thick
gasket glue the two together.

The back side of the metal tracker bar has a rectangular gasket that
seals around the back of the harmonica.  I will send two of these just
in case that gasket is also thicker.

The white gum rubber tubing gasket is identical to the original.  You
get well more than is needed.  Just clean off the old rubber and glue
the new one on in one long piece with burned shellac or plastic glue
('Tacky Glue').  Splice the ends together just like the original.

Or, just send me a whole $20.00 and I will send you the gaskets
above plus the flap valve strips to rebuild the two brass reed frames.
I will send you more than you need so you can mess up or drop a few and
still get the job done.  Once again, they are glued on with burned
shellac or Aleens Tacky Glue.  These I have to make up for each job.

The metal Rolmonica unit, which is later and painted green or brown,
also uses the tracker bar gasket but does not need the tubing gasket
since there is no door to pressurize.  That one also needs the flap
valves as well.

I only sell one set which will rebuild any of the Rolmonicas I have
seen.  I have heard about a larger version but that one is rather rare.
My gaskets are not made for that one.

  Gaskets only:  $12.00
  Gaskets and Flap valves:  $20.00

Postage is included.  It will be shipped by US mail in a brown padded
envelope.

At these prices I only need to sell 450 sets to make back the money
I spent on the special made items. <LOL>

Email me if interested.

Natural gum rubber is known to last over 50 years but it won't last
forever.

Rebuilding the Rolmonica just got much easier.

D.L. Bullock
St. Louis
http://www.thepianoworld.com/