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Carbide vs diamond

ponjohn

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Local Home Depot rents concret grinders with carbide tips only. The cutter has 8 sides and can be rotated as needed.

Will this work for concret prep for epoxy?

I do have other rental places just haven't had a chance to call yet.
 
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Falcon67

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If my experience with HardiPanel siding and carbide saw blades is at all related, concrete makes pretty short work of carbide. A good carbide blade dulls pretty fast when cutting through 1/4" concrete panel. Slower rotational speed might add life to the carbide tips.
 
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dcs Inc

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Carbides don't work for a ****. Don't waist your time with them. A 7" grinder will out work these. (With a diamond cup). Check to see what your rental company has to offer with diamond segments.
 
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ponjohn

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Found two local places that rent the diamond cutter.

175 and 192 per day this includes the diamasert (sp?).
 

dcs Inc

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You have to understand rental companies really don't know **** about concrete grinding. When edco did their march across the country years ago selling these "new fangled" grinders, rental companies ate them up. Edco finally came up with some tooling that actually "kinda" worked. Most rental companies didn't want to bother with the diamond tooling. Because of how the duel heads on the larger edcos don't float, the large foot print on these causes one to grind deeper to hit the valleys of the uneven finish of the concrete. A single head edco will outwork production wise than it's larger brother. Edco has since come out with a floating head attachment but the rental companies see this as useless.

If they have a single head edco, I'd go for that. It's smaller foot print will speed the grinding. No matter which one you end up with, down pressure is your friend. (Add a couple bags of heavy on top of the machine.
 

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Onfloor makes nice machines for grinding and many Lowes around the country rent the 16" versions. I sort of doubt they rent the diamabrushes, but the onfloor units will grind the concrete well. the Onfloor 20 is better, but the 16 is should do the trick for you. they should have cobalt diamonds and if you get an option get the 20-30 grit (reds).

Carbide won't work unless you're just trying to remove coatings. They don't work well for concrete preparation for epoxy coatings.
 
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