Originally Posted by B McEwen

I should have been able to solve this earlier guys. Although I can't understand why I couldn't get it to work by hand (insufficient leverage / strength?).

What really confused me was the deraileur has positioning pieces and a groove for the cable that clearly guide / feed it to what is the wrong side of the bolt. It didn't seem to make sense to fed it to the other side.

Also, how does that change in position of the cable provide extra extension that I couldn't get before? The deraileur is in a position I tried multiple times.