When working with sheet metal the term gauge is often used.
Metric sheet metal gauge thickness chart.
Gauge to thickness chart click here for a printable pdf chart gauge.
For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter.
This is known as the manufacturers standard gage for sheet steel.
Originally used in the.
Sheet metal thickness gauges for steel are based on a weight of 41 82 pounds per square foot per inch of thickness.
Gague ga is a length measurement unit for diameters originating in north america and belongs to the browne sharpe metering system.
Gauge to thickness chart gauge stainless galvanized sheet steel aluminum fraction inches mm inches mm inches mm inches mm 30 0 0125 0 33 0 0157 0 40 0 0120 0 30 0 0100 0 25.
Gauges are used to specify the thickness of a sheet metal.
Thus a 10 gauge steel sheet which has a thickness of 0 1345 inches will weigh.
304 316 409 420 430 cold rolled stainless sheet.
Gauges are neither standard nor metric and the values are independent of those measurement systems.
A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters.
There is no conversion formula due to the difference between ga.
The comparison of different unit systems is shown in the table below.
For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0.
The larger the number of gauge is the smaller the diameter is.
Sheet metal gauge size chart gauge or gage sizes are numbers that indicate the thickness of a piece of sheet metal with a higher number referring to a thinner sheet.
Equal to less than 1000 1000 thru 1300 1300 thru 2100.
Thickness tolerance specified width.
A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters.
Gague are used to specify the thickness of a metal sheet.
Si metric conversion tables sheet metal gauge to metric mm equivalent thickness.
Sheet metal gauge thickness chart.
For other materials such as aluminum and brass the thicknesses will be different.