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can record skips be fixed?

can anything be done to an lp which develops a repeating skip, which repeats until I get up and go blow on the tonearm to push it along? It pretty much renders those records junk. Often there isn't even a visible scratch or defect at that spot.
Disabling anti-skate seems to help; the lateral forces seem to push the tonearm past skips sometimes. Some cartridges and tonearms seem more susceptible to this effect than others, and it doesn't seem to correlate with "quality" - quite the opposite, as I have moved up the ladder of Origin Live tonearms and Lyra cartridges, the problem seems to have gotten worse.
Is this true of turntables as well, some are more resistant to skipping than others?
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lloydc OP
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thanks for the responses.

ordinarily, I go looking for another copy. Will try the suggestions, since the records are more or less unplayable.

ebm
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Use Oral b tooth brush rub in the direction of groves it works some times!!
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davide256
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if there are not visible scratches, there may be a compliance mismatch between the cartridge and tonearm mass. The cartridge compliance can be compared to the shock absorber springs on your car... a good match means a smooth ride, a bad match means a bumpy ride where every bump in the road (LP) is felt. Doesn't mean you wont hear a POP with a good match, only that its less likely to bounce up and skate back a groove. Light arms do best with soft suspension cartridges, heavy arms with stiff suspension cartridges.
playpen
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I have fixed an LP skip like Minkwelder using high tonearm weight on old dual TT and expendable cartridge playing just that skip point a few times to regroove it.It worked.When I was a child I used to tape pennies and nickels on the tone arm to stop skips on my junk TT on my 45's.
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