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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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elizabeth
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Very few LPs are worth the bother.. Go find another copy!
Unless it is some early Blue Note or something like it, forget it.
Eventually, someday there will be nanobot repair kits.. LOL

Which you can insert in the lead out groove and they work there way to the edge. repairing the damage as they go...
Collect them in the 'attractor' cup, and store them for the next LP. With various nanobot models to do full, mild and repair only serious damage settings.
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