Looks like everyone has already covered most of the possible issues already, Malcolm, but I will mention one other possibility. Rust on the metal bits. I missed the traveling on Uncle Sam's dime ( although it was an issue that I was thinking about a lot when it all ended just before I got out of High School), but spent a year traveling through S.E Asia and India during my Wandering Hippie with a Backpack period a few years later. (Indo, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma (this was before it changed names) India, Sri Lanka) I hauled an inexpensive Philippine-made 000 that I had picked up at a hock shop in New Zealand. Could have been the cheap nature of the components, but I did get oxidation showing up on the machines and frets.
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