I think I wasted about 150ml or more trying to do this, but it just doesn’t work. It should in theory, but not in practice. I even oriented the pats so they both print with their own supports (there are no interior supports touching between parts,
I started with a gap of .3mm, then moved to .5, .75, 1mm. When I got to 1.25mm, the part still required some force to break it apart, and the part that is the socket outer shell cracked. At 1.5mm, the parts could move, but the surface was terrible and the gap way too visible.
So I eventually gave up on this idea, and ended up printing the socket in 2 halves.