Leaking accordion gaskets cause excess sludging and sticky keys and buttons when associated with polka sausage emissions, cigarette smoke and Elk Snore beer evaporation in crowded areas. This also causes wheezing and sputters, and can make the accordion croak like an old folks home. This is due to the instrument inhaling polluted, toxic polkoxides. 

REPAIR INSTRUCTIONS

To correct this, employ the Penskover gasket, Part number #XZ20200221.

Repairs are made as follows:

Open the unit by separating the Bellows unit from the button box and key housing.

Use a butter knife from an old Lutheran church basement for this procedure. The knife has lots of whole butter and Lutefisk grease impelled into the steel from many years of Christmas Church dinners, which makes it slipperier than Teflon.

Grasp the knife, and have an Elksnore.

Separate the sludged gaskets and clean the mating surfaces with a clean lint free cloth soaked in JagerMeister.

NOTE: Employ the use of an old surplus Eastern Block military gas mask for protection from gaseous fumes and odors from the interior of the accordion. These emissions are comprised of Elksnore beer and polka sausage emissions, body odor, bowling alley polish, Sani-spray from rented bowling shoes, Italian sausage pizza and sauerkraut and cheap perfume. They can be deadly, causing lengthy episodes of euphoria and dancing.

Remove the gasket, and glue residue and let the mating surfaces dry.

Remember Ray Stolzenberg's suggestion: Do not drink JagerMeister used to remove glue residue. Discard cloth immediately.

Grease the new gasket with plenty of polka sausage residue, from your next polka festival.

Apply the new gasket to both mating ends of the bellows, key and button assembly, and let dry thoroughly. After reassembly test play your rebuilt accordion. Watch for white smoky emissions that smell like the aforementioned gaseous material, or residual sausage squeezing. If the emissions are clear, and the wheezing has stopped, play a few rounds of  "Roll Out The Barrel" for break in. Should additional wheezing be noted, apply a light spray of Primatene mist Bronc-aids or other over the counter asthma remedy. Enjoy and Elk Snore, with plenty of old video clips of Frankie Yankovic or Jimmy Jensen the swinging Swede.