blend does not work on this object

 From:  PaQ
8462.8 In reply to 8462.7 
Hi Wim,

As Burr said (Hi Burr !), it looks like it's more a continuity problem here than a real gap between those 2 edges.
And just to be sure, I'm talking about this merge command : http://moi3d.com/2.0/docs/moi_command_reference10.htm ... it's different from a 'join'.