I just bought a Crosley Mini Cruise Turntable back form the US, and plugged it into my mains with an adaptor - it worked for about 1 minute before stopping, and I immediately unplugged the machine. Would the fuse in the plug have saved the machine, or have I damaged the interior components due to the higher voltage running through it?

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As grubhead implies, there is more to making a unit work on 'foreign' power than just making the plug fit in the socket. You don't say what was the input voltage used versus what it needs. It sounds like a 220 in to a 110 required device. Potentially it's toast unless the in-line fuse saved it. I'm sure the manual would have cautioned against what happened.