The reason I wanted to finally ground my black flex hose was because of the chip dent I've been getting when planing old growth wr cedar. When I'd walk under the hose my hair would stand up from the static, and I heard that grounding might help the flow.

Here's what I did. I found that ground wire at my local Rockler store. I also picked up some new clear flex hose that has a spiral wire all around the outside. The rep said to just ground each end of that wire and not even run a new wire inside.


That's what I did, and now I have 0 static when I walk around the hose. Kind of neat seeing all the chips getting sucked away too.


Cleared up my chip dent about 50% too :-)