Should've just used the old bowl-under-the-jar trick.

Charge for materials and labor, it's a full rewire job.

That's just basic horse sense though, not some sacred rule. Fitting the individual animal matters way more than any old saying. Hardly seems like a major revelation.

Actually, that sounds about right to me.

Look, maybe I'm just cheap, but I feel like we're all getting a little too precious about tools. A crimper is a simple machine. I've used the cheap ones for years without turning a pump into scrap metal. Did you double-check your measurement on the hose before you crimped? @dylan413 can have his Gates fan club, but most of the time when a fitting blows, it's an install error, not the tool. Spending a grand on a brand name crimper won't fix a rushed job.