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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2371060, member: 112&quot;]Of course you can. Think for a minute Dave, the device areas, how deep are they ? They are very shallow, anywhere from a fraction of a millimeter to maybe 1 millimeter deep. Your fingertip alone, because it is soft and flexible, can push down into that easily. Put a rag over your fingertip and it is even easier.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not really, again think for a minute. When the dies are set in the press they are fairly close together even when open and awaiting another planchet. Then a blob of grease flies off the machinery, which is moving at very high rates of speed, and hits the dies - some gets on both dies - and naturally it&#039;s going to be in roughly the same place since the dies are fixed in place relative to each other. </p><p><br /></p><p>After that, it&#039;s just a matter of cleaning it off. A mint employee gets a rag, steps up to the press, wipes the grease off (scratches the dies as a result) and starts the press up again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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