New - What am I missing?

[philsmd]

if the example hash works (from the wiki page, password for the example hash is hashcat), so should every other hash given the correct hash, salt, password.

there could be many problems.
1. your hash was not generated with the same algorithm (see for instance differences between 110 and 120)
2. salt is not complete or in wrong format (binary vs hex salt)
3. the password is not correct
etc etc

just test the example hash and confirm if it is working and if that is working you need to find out why your other example (your original hash/salt/password) is not cracking (maybe some of the reasons from above)