Hey, don't feel stupid yet! The questions remain as to whether the built-in crimper 1) actually has anything anywhere close to what you need, and 2) has good enough metal to actually make more than 2 (okay... 3 on a good day) crimps to begin with!
(I have a pair of bolt cutters that already looks like what you did to yours, but it got that way from trying to cut open a lock. Not one of those case-hardened ones, either...
After that I found out you could soften the metal you want to cut by using a propane torch running on MAPP gas...)
ANYway.... if it actually does work, you can now do two crimps at once!
