I cast some 45s yeserday and was GC/PCing today. I found an old stash of gas checks but they were very snug. They are Hornady GCs, but the oxidation must add just a tiny bit of thickness or maybe they made them a little smaller years ago. Note that the new GCs are much easier to seat. Either way, it was kind of making my fingers hurt trying to GC these guys.
Here you can see the oxidation of the old GCs vs a new (ish) one:
I've done a lot of wood working and one thing you have if you work with wood is clamps. I took this Irwin clamp with the soft pads and it turns out, it levels and slips the GC on and very smoothly seats them. Made my pile go much faster and my fingers are thanking me: