I say any time you drag a job out like that - you're already on thin ice. The bottom line is your reputation is ALWAYS on the line. If you bid on a job, do it, and do it well. Forgetting to call back, waiting too long for people to call you back - let's face it, it's nobody's fault but yours, and it's bad business. You got sloppy.
On top of that you fried some of their equipment.
If it was either of two - inexcusable delays OR blowing some equipment up - I'd say try to work with them. But you've got both against you.
Write a short apology and leave it.
In fact I've done a very similar things myself. Contracted to write some software for a company - kept putting it off, doing it in small pieces while doing other work. Finally got so ridiculous they wanted out, and said they'd pay me for the time I had into it. I apologized that I spread myself too thin with other jobs - and that I wouldn't consider charging them a dime for a half-a#*($#ed project I didn't complete.
I had no delusion that they'd ever hire me again for anything, but it was still the right thing to do.
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