OEM 25025 26-Blade Master Feeler Gauge
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of OEM 25025 26-Blade Master Feeler Gauge
Customer Review: Great for guitar setup
Summary: 4 Stars
I use this to check the relief of my guitar after I do a setup. I put a capo on the first fret and hold down the last fret then use the feeler to measure the gap at the 8th fret. I like my relief from 0.006 - 0.01" and this set has those measurements and a ton more.
Guitar shops sell this type of tool for $30. This set was a fraction of the price. The only downside is it comes heavily oiled so you'll need to wipe it down with a paper towel on first use.
Customer Review: I am really impressed with this SAE/METRIC tool!
Summary: 5 Stars
Such a usefull gauge for an unbelievably low price! I was looking for a reasonably priced feeler gauge to check/adjust my motorcycle engine valves. What I found was too expensive or didn't have thin enough blades to do the job. Then I found this, just what I needed, and for such a low price.
The blades range from .0015"/.038mm to .025"/.635mm, and the inch/mm thicknesses are etched on each blade. I was unable to find such a wide-range measuring ability in other gauges even at higher prices. Why pay more for for a gauge that is basically the same but with fewer blades?
The thumscrew and pin can be removed so that I can remove blades if I want to use them separate from the handle, or I can rearrange the blades in any combination to get the thickness I need, and reassemble it.
Though there is no big name-brand stamped on it (just OEM), the gauge is better than I expected for the price and more than adequate for the home mechanic. None of the blades were damaged (in the past I had found other gauges with creased or bent blades). It came in an air-tight blister wrap and the handle and all blades were fully coated with a thin layer of preservative oil to keep it from rusting. The oil will have to be removed from the blade(s) being used to measure or it will stick to whatever is being measured and give a false indication to the user. I went ahead and wiped the oil off of each blade with a paper towel, then applied a layer of very thin machine oil to the blades as the thicker oil was a bit sticky and messy; then stored the tool in an air-tight zip lock sandwich bag. Rust is the biggest enemy of this tool, but stainless steel gauges are available at exhorbitant prices and limited blade thicknesses.
Customer Review: It hasn't rusted and works smoothly
Summary: 5 Stars
Not much can go wrong with this item. I haven't independently measured the thickness, but have no reason to believe it isn't accurate.Customer Review: It is what it says it is.
Summary: 4 Stars
It's a cheap set of feeler gauges, which come well-oiled because they'll start to rust the instant you wipe the oil off. That's just the nature of the beast with these things.
To their credit, they put the .025" feeler on top and followed with the .0015", .002", and so on. This greatly helps to keep the paper-thin gauges from getting mangled when folding the unit up after use.
Customer Review: Just the trick for my guitar setups
Summary: 5 Stars
I've played guitar for several years now, and only in the past few months have I begun seriously working on guitar setup/repairs as a luthier. The one glaring problem I had as a budding enthusiast was that my tools weren't up to snuff (what average workbench setup has gauges designed to measure in thousandths?) After cringing at prices from LuthierSupply, StewMac, and the like, I stumbled onto this feeler gauge in my Amazon recommendations (thank you once again for reading my mind...though it is getting a bit creepy...)
For under $5, it seemed like a safe bet to take a chance on, and I snapped one up immediately. Upon opening, the first thing I noticed was..oil. Be warned: The blades come packaged with some form of lubricant between them that I doubt most would want to spread on other surfaces (like the fretboard of your guitar for example). After wiping much of the excess off, I examined the actual tool:
The blades themselves are very well made, easy to read, and are perfect for measuring everything from variances in fret heights (those that are impossible to gauge by eye) to pickup and string height (in order to setup action and neck relief). For those measurements exceeding 0.025"/0.635mm it's a simple matter to add adjacent blades in combination up to a total of 0.328"/8.332mm. This is made possible due to the fact that the first blade on the wheel is actually the .025"/.635mm, allowing gauges to be added progressively from the smallest value up. Perhaps this is obvious, but I did not see it mentioned in the item description, and it does increase its overall usefulness.
Furthermore, the protective metal sleeve can be removed to separate the gauges for individual use by removing the thumb screw at the top (though I personally have yet to see the need to do so). And don't worry, I've yet to see any indication that the screw can fall off on its own and scatter tiny impossible-to-pick-off-the-floor-by-hand gauges everywhere.
All in all, a great little tool that I suspect will serve me well for many years to come.