Hi Michael,
"""""""""> I was under impression that Join was good a working around these "near misses".

It is, up to a gap size of 0.005 - if your gap size is somethign like 0.006 units that's still pretty small visually and hard to see the gap without zooming in closely to the area where it is the largest.""""""""""""""

So then when using this method to join "pretty close stuff" would it then succed if you used a scaling workflow and scaled "down, then back up" after the join?

Kindof like the opposite of getting a fillet in a very tiny area by scaling up 10 times.