Hi Listers!  In tearing into a 3-tier Standard stack the other day,
I was surprised to see a previous rebuilder had used thin pouch
leather under the striker pneumatics as a gasket.  It made the job
of getting the pneumatics off of the deck a true pleasure, with only
a small crack on the end of the putty knife with the heel of my hand
needed to separate the boards with none breaking!  What a pleasure!

I've always glued the pneumatics directly to the deck, but man, that
sure made things easy to disassemble.  Is this gasket method airtight
or is it truly unnecessary?

John Neiswinger
Springfield, Ohio

http://mmd.foxtail.com/Archives/KWIC/G/gasket.html