I accidentally slipped and poked a hole with the dimple die right next to the “good” hole. Do I need to replace the skin?
An old Chinese proverb says: Everything needs a flaw in it for the devil to escape. If you’re like most RV builders, you have enough problems without hauling the devil around. It seems like a lot of people do this at least once, and generally it’s not something to worry about. RVs are certainly over-engineered enough that one hole too close to an edge or to another hole isn’t going to make it fly apart! If the new hole intersects the other hole (a “figure-8” hole) you can just rivet as you normally would and plan to fix the cosmetic flaw with some bondo or JB weld when you paint. If its further than that, you can fill it with an “oops” rivet (NAS1097 reduced head — see below) and it will barely show. How do you tell a good dimple from a bad one? Look for a “fisheye” (distorted area) around the dimple. If there is one, it usually means you’ve under-dimpled, and occurs when the dimple dies don’t “bottom out”. Fisheyes can also occur if you over-dimple and stretch the skin, but you have
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