Maxigear

Maxigear Feeler Gauges, Hollow Punches, Hand Reamers & Workshop Tooling

Maxigear is a widely used brand of precision hand tools, measurement instruments, and workshop tooling supplying maintenance engineers, machinists, toolmakers, and trade professionals across Australia with the gauges, punches, reamers, and tool steel needed for accurate workshop operations and production maintenance tasks.

The Maxigear range occupies a practical sweet spot in the industrial tool market — offering professional-grade accuracy and durability in hand measurement tools, punches, and reamers at a price point that suits workshop and plant maintenance budgets where high-cost precision instrument brands are difficult to justify for general-purpose applications.

Feeler gauges are one of the most widely used measurement tools in workshop and maintenance environments, used to measure the clearances in engine valve assemblies, spark plug gaps, bearing clearances, contact breaker points, shim packs, and precision machined gaps across an enormous range of industrial equipment. Maxigear offers both metric and imperial feeler strip gauges, covering the full range of clearance measurements encountered in Australian workshops that service both metric-standard equipment and the older imperial-dimensioned machinery and engines that remain in service in many mining, agricultural, and industrial operations.

Their hollow punches (wad punches) are fundamental workshop fabrication tools for cutting circular holes in sheet rubber, gasket material, leather, plastic sheet, conveyor belting, and other flexible materials. The hollow punch removes a clean disc of material, leaving a circular hole with a clean edge that a drill cannot produce in flexible materials. Maxigear’s hollow punch sets cover the range of hole diameters commonly required for gasket cutting, grommet installation, snap fastener setting, and sheet material fabrication.

Hand reamers are precision cutting tools for sizing bored or drilled holes to exact dimensions with a controlled surface finish and dimensional accuracy that drilling alone cannot achieve.

Adjustable hand reamers provide a range of sizes in a single tool, reducing the number of individual reamers required in a workshop toolbox.

Maxigear also offers high-speed steel tool steel in round and square sections for lathe tool grinding, cutter making, and workshop toolmaking.

AIMS Industrial markets Maxigear’s workshop tooling range for direct online ordering with fast Australia-wide delivery. Order your Maxigear tools today.

Maxigear Feeler Gauges — Metric & Imperial

Maxigear feeler strip gauges in metric and imperial are in stock at AIMS Industrial for direct online ordering — the essential measurement tool for clearance checking in engines, bearings, and precision-fit machinery components.

• Maxigear Steel Feeler Strip Gauge — Metric: A metric feeler gauge set with multiple hardened and tempered steel blades in metric thickness steps for measuring the gap clearances in valve train components, spark plugs, bearing clearances, contact points, and precision-fit mechanical assemblies. Each blade is precision ground to its marked thickness and stamped with the metric dimension for quick identification. The fan-style arrangement allows individual blades to be selected and stacked to achieve intermediate measurements not provided by a single blade. Essential for engine service, gearbox maintenance, and any mechanical assembly requiring controlled clearance verification.
• Maxigear Steel Feeler Strip Gauge — Imperial: An imperial (thou/inch) feeler gauge set for measuring clearances on older or American-specification equipment dimensioned in thou of an inch. Imperial feeler gauges are a maintenance requirement on much of the mining, agricultural, and transport equipment in service in Australia that was manufactured to imperial standards before metrication or imported from American manufacturers. The imperial set covers the clearance range commonly specified in imperial equipment service manuals for valve, bearing, and contact clearance adjustments.
• Maxigear Firm Joint Outside Caliper: A firm-joint outside caliper for measuring the outside diameter of round bar, pipe, and machined components by direct measurement transfer to a steel rule or vernier scale. Firm-joint calipers maintain their set dimension when released, allowing the measurement to be read from the rule without holding the caliper in position. Used in tool rooms, machining shops, and maintenance workshops for checking round stock diameters, turned component dimensions, and outside dimensions where a micrometer or vernier caliper is not required.

Maxigear Hollow Punches, Hand Reamers & Workshop Tooling

Maxigear’s punch and reamer range covers essential workshop fabrication and precision hole-finishing tools for maintenance and toolmaking applications. Order online at AIMS Industrial.

• Maxigear Hollow Punch — Wad Punches: A set of hollow punches (wad punches) for cutting clean circular holes in sheet rubber, gasket sheet, leather, plastic, conveyor belting, and flexible sheeting. Hollow punches are struck with a hammer on the crowned striking face and cut a disc of material from the workpiece, leaving a clean-edged round hole suitable for grommet installation, bolt clearance in custom gaskets, and snap fastener setting. The hollow punch is the correct tool for flexible material perforation where drilling would tear or distort the material rather than cutting it cleanly. Available in diameter steps from small grommet sizes through to large hole diameters for major gasket and belting fabrication.
• Maxigear Adjustable Hand Reamer Size 2A: An adjustable hand reamer for finishing bored and drilled holes to a precise diameter and surface finish. The adjustable blade arrangement spans a range of hole diameters, allowing the reamer to be set to the exact required dimension within its adjustment range. Hand reamers are used after drilling or boring to remove the small material allowance left for reaming and produce a hole with the controlled surface finish and dimensional accuracy needed for press-fit bearing housing bores, precision pin bores, and close-tolerance shaft bores where a drill alone would leave excess material and poor finish. The 2A size covers a mid-range hole diameter — check the Maxigear specification chart for the exact diameter range.
• Maxigear Round Tool Steel Imperial — High Speed Steel: High-speed steel (HSS) round bar in imperial diameter steps for grinding lathe tools, end mills, cutters, and custom tooling in workshop toolmaking. HSS tool steel can be heat-treated and then ground to the required cutting geometry, allowing workshops to produce custom lathe tools, form tools, and profile cutters that are not available as standard catalogue items. Imperial diameter round tool steel covers the older-specification toolholders and boring bars on imperial-dimensioned lathes and milling machines still in service in Australian workshops.
• Maxigear Square Tool Steel Imperial — High Speed Steel: High-speed steel square bar for grinding turning tools, facing tools, and parting tools for use in standard tool posts on centre lathes. Square HSS stock is the correct raw material for lathe tooling — the square cross-section fits standard quick-change and lantern tool posts without modification. Available in imperial section sizes from 3/16" to 3/4" square to suit the range of tool post capacities on small to medium centre lathes. The HSS compound provides the combination of hardness and toughness needed for interrupted-cut turning and facing operations.
• Maxigear White Stearene Wax Aluminium Lubricant 600g: A white stearene wax lubricant for aluminium sawing, tapping, threading, and forming operations where conventional oil-based cutting fluids cause staining and chemical reaction with aluminium. Stearene wax is applied to saw blades, taps, and forming tools before cutting, providing dry lubrication at the cutting interface without the mess and cleaning requirements of liquid cutting fluids. The wax form is particularly useful for portable hand sawing and on-site tapping operations where a liquid cutting fluid cannot be conveniently applied or contained.

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