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Groundpinpal cleaning brush for power cord ground pins
The GroundPinPal is a specially designed cleaning tool used to remove the oxidation from power cord ground pins. It is great for use on all types of equipment needing good, solid ground pin connections such as medical, laboratory, computers/peripherals, telephone/data, music gear and any device needing clean conductive ground pins. This is a new tool.
Good grounding enhances the operation and safety of electrical and electronic equipment and is a critical area most often overlooked. Solid grounding can help eliminate or reduce the spurious signals that should be going to ground. When was the last time the ground pins on your equipment, devices and power cords received any preventative maintenance especially those items located in moist environments? It's just not something that we think about often. Just take a look at your extension cords and power tools in the garage or workshop. They are probably pretty dull and oxidized. Hospitals do electrical safety tests on all their equipment every six months and check the ground pins to verify readings in milliohms. Do you think that they are onto something that the rest of the world takes for granted? Take a look at the equipment that has been plugged into the same outlet for years on end. The ground pins can oxidize and create a barrier to good electrical flow even if it can't be seen. Let the GroundPinPal help fix it for you.
HOW IT WORKS: The specially designed brushing wires are critically angled to achieve two levels of cleaning of power cord ground pins. When the GroundPinPal is rotated in one direction it provides light cleaning of the ground pin. When rotated in the opposite direction it is very "aggressive" and cleans heavy oxidation fast. Notice the angled wires in the closeup photo below. It's like having two tools inside one housing. The GroundPinPal works equally well on round pins and U-shaped ground pins. The wires have been dimensionally manufactured to be rigid enough to clean the oxidation from round ground pins and flexible enough to prevent snagging on the U-channel ground pins typically found on power cords in the US. The standard hex shaft fits any drill or battery-operated screwdriver. No adjustable chuck is needed since the hex shaft is grooved to secure it in any type of driver/drill. We recommend a small hand-held driver/drill like the type shown cleaning the ground pin in the photo.
