16 Orange Double Segment Very Soft Concrete

- Most aggressive metal-bond grinding segment in the standard line — 16 grit is the coarsest standard size, designed to tear through thick coatings, heavy mastic, epoxy overlays, glue, and badly worn or contaminated concrete surfaces in a single aggressive pass.

- Double-segment configuration for tool life and refinement — two diamond segments per shoe create more surface contact than a single segment, extending tool life and leaving a more uniform scratch pattern. Best paired with larger / heavier walk-behind grinders (25" and up) where the extra contact patch helps the machine pull weight. For aggressive stock removal on smaller machines, a single-segment 16 grit cuts faster but wears out sooner.

- Engineered for very soft concrete — very soft concrete (typically under 2,000 PSI, Mohs 2–3) is highly abrasive and rips through diamond segments fast. The orange color code designates the hardest metal bond available, holding the diamonds in place longer to give usable tool life on a slab that would chew through softer bonds in a fraction of the time.

- Counterintuitive but correct: hard bond on soft concrete, soft bond on hard concrete — using the wrong bond on a soft slab causes premature wear and burns through tooling budget. If the segments are wearing down visibly fast or leaving inconsistent scratch patterns, the bond hardness needs to move up — orange (extra-hard) is the top of that scale.

- Step-zero tool for heavy prep jobs on soft concrete — use this before stepping up to 25- or 30-grit when the floor has thick coatings, severe surface damage, or major profile correction needs. After the 16-grit opens the floor, the typical sequence moves up through 25/30, 50, 80, and 100-grit metals, then into transitional and resin polishing pads. Leaving deep scratches at this stage is fine — the next grits are designed to remove them.