# How to Use the MagTek Debris Clearing Tool

## Introduction

This document provides instructions for using MagTek’s debris clearing tool to perform regular maintenance cleaning of the oDynamo card insertion slot. For additional support, contact MagTek Support Services.

1000007173 CLEANING KIT, CARD SLOT DEBRIS CLEARING TOOL, ODYNAMO contains the debris clearing tool and these instructions. For more intensive cleaning, consider *1000007139 CLEANING KIT, CARD SLOT, ODYNAMO*, which includes additional tools and materials.

## Instructions

To clean the oDynamo card insertion slot using the MagTek debris clearing tool, follow these steps. MagTek recommends performing this preventive maintenance regularly, depending on usage of the devices you are cleaning. Ideally maintenance would be performed before debris accumulates and renders the device non-functional:

* Gather one of the debris cleaning tools from the kit. Turn the tool so its hook corner is on the right side, pointing toward the card insertion slot.
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* Push the tool straight into the card insertion slot all the way until you feel it touch the back wall.
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* Push the butt end of the tool to the left. This pivots the tool inside the device and pushes the hook against the back right corner of the card insertion slot.
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* Continue pushing the tool to the left so it stays engaged with the right wall of the slot, and slowly pull the tool out, scraping the right wall of the card insertion slot clean as you pull.
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* Repeat the scraping motion 2-3 times.
* Turn the tool over so the hook points to the left, and repeat the same steps 2-3 times.
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