I've been grinding down the high spots on the concrete slab. I bought a Bosch concrete surfacer angle grinder, that has a diamond cup. Seems to work well, has a vacuum attachment, produces no dust at all. (although I still use a respirator, you never know). However, man my hands sure do "tingle" for days after using it. It's from all the virbration I'm sure, even though I use anti-vibration gloves!

Same with you guys?

Anti-vibration gloves are more for hammering nails in or something like that. You're not going to find anything that will help much when you're doing hours of grinding at a time.

Well, unless you get someone else to hold the grinder... <cheesy grin>

So I guess the only thing I can do is grin and bear it?

I've never used the tool you are using and my grinding experience is limited to metal (used to be a sheet metal worker). Give the pros a few to chime in here; maybe they've found a solution.

But from my experience, yeah, I just had to keep going. I wrapped a rag around handles at one time which helped for a few seconds but due to constant intensity it didn't help in the long run at all.

YMMV (your milage may vary)

An alternative would be to grin and BEER it.

Gary, that would be the ideal way!

I've got a lot of overspray I'm trying to "buff" off the slab too. Do you use the same method here? via grinder? Seems to go faster than manual scraping which doesn't work too well. You get the "tinglings" too?

Wall texture and paint overspray is a hassle, to be sure. I usually use my buffer with corse sandpaper to remove those. To remove concrete, I go to a grinding attachment. With a buffer, you stand up. It's not too bad except for the DUST.

Gary, fab a piece of rubber covebase molding around your buffer, and cut a port for your vac.

yeh, I know. I was gonna get a new Clarke buffer with all that stuff. I still may. Just can't swing it right now. Thanks for the tip about using cove base though. I hadn't thought about that. Sounds as if it could work quite well.