My battery install (see this thread) took a turn for the worst.

As others suggested, I tried to bend the metal plate to form a little better to my Optima battery. Well this is what happened:





As you can see, the screw hole piece has broken off from the metal plate (this is the metal plate which connects to the negative terminal of the battery).

I feel like an idiot...is this something easy to fix? Is there a replacement part? What can I do to fix this?


(Please tell me this is not an expensive mistake... )


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