Running forge dies: why this course exists

The same die, built to the same print and treated to the same spec, lasts 30K hits in one shop and 120K hits in another. The spread lives in four operator-controlled levers, and that gap is the subject of this course.

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Knowledge check

Two shops run the same H13 forge die, built by the same vendor to the same print, nitrided in the same load. Shop A pulls the die at 30K hits with a deep heat-check network and adhesive pickup. Shop B runs the same die to 120K hits with a stable heat-check network and no pickup. Name the four operator-controlled levers that account for most of the spread, and state in one sentence the relationship between the die build and the run.