Originally Posted by eruby

Dickbee, you are missing what happened to me. there is a male and female end of the SB. it's not a problem of which end of the cable plugs into what, but the plug itself can plug in 2 ways. when you look at it, it appears there is a flat edge and a curved edge and it should go only one way but infact the plastic must move enough that you can plug the curved end into the flat side - which must have been what i did. in all my life i have never seen a plug that would do this but i guess i was due. when i tried again, i carefully looked at how the old plug came apart (much easier to do when you remove the pedal) and plugged the sb in the same way. bingo.

it's not that difficult. of all the folks here that bought a sb, it looks like it was just me a maybe a couple others that had this issue.