1.3 vs 3? You billing the customer or eating it?

Switched to a pocket notebook with sharpie dates after mine drowned too.

$400 still sounds like a lot for something you hit with your knee though. I get that it worked better, but a 12x15 Berber in Tacoma is not exactly the hardest stretch out there. I've seen guys power stretch everything with a cheap kicker and a good set of vice grips and never complain. Sounds less like the tool was magic and more like yours was just trash to begin with. There's a difference between a $60 kicker that's decent and a $60 kicker from the bottom of a bargain bin.