Stylus stuck in groove

Slaw,

Thanks for your helpful post,

!= cd318 If you watch where it is skipping you can usually find the culprit and scrape it off with a fingernail. Something falls on the record and you put it back in the cover, then into the collection where it sits under slight pressure for years until you play it again. Stuck good. 
If you let it skip too long the stylus will wear a door into the last groove and the skip will be permanent. I do have very strong loops but I never seem to need them for this. 

@mijostyn,

I wondered whether the OP might have some loose plaster or paint directly above his turntable. Not always easy to see on a high ceiling.

Assuming that he’s using it without any lid.

The bit about the vinyl being ok one day and not the next is indeed strange.

Could the sleeves be responsible in some way? Vinyl inner sleeves always did seem to vary quite a bit in quality.

I’ve even seen some bad plastic ones for CD audiobooks, where it’s almost impossible to remove and return discs without a fair bit of unnecessary friction.

The only guess I have is it might be the sleeves.
Unless it’s audio gremlins.
Not the ceiling.

It would be debris in the sleeves. Very possible. I have had it happen with new records.