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Originally Posted by Ed Caffrey
I guess it might be it's better to have too much "slop"... than not enough?
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IMO, like everything, it's a balance. Too much slop and your dies won't index/line up properly and forging will be a nightmare. Not being argumentative, but on first glance, 1/8" seems a lot to me. I'd have to go out to my press and see what I've got, but I'd guess it's closer to 1/16".
I've got a number of friends who are good enough tool makers that they can ensure that everything is square, lines up and stable and have no slop in their tooling dies. Some even bolt them down to keep them solid and indexed.