Imperial Sheet Metal Thickness

A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters.

Imperial sheet metal thickness. 44 151 526 4777 fax. The story of gauge. Sheet metal thickness gauges for steel are based on a weight of 41 82 pounds per square foot per inch of thickness. Corresponds to the standard steel thickness of 0 0329 inches 0 84mm.

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. 44 560 115 7793 email. Unit 4 yakira buildings 83 sefton lane maghull liverpool l31 8bu. Gauges are neither standard nor metric and the values are independent of those measurement systems.

For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0. The chart below shows the imperial standard sheet gauge definition with its metric equivalent and today s commercially available ferrous mild steel zintec galvanised steel stainless steel alloys and non ferrous aluminium alloys brass copper sheet. Thus a 10 gauge steel sheet which has a thickness of 0 1345 inches will weigh 41 82 0 1345 5 625 pounds per square foot. The corresponding galvanized steel thickness is 0 0366 inches 0 93mm and the corresponding aluminum thickness is 0 028 inches 0 71mm.

For other materials such as aluminum and brass the thicknesses will be different. The table below provides conversion to inches. Metal sheet thickness is measured in gauge. 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. Imperial equivalent in mm. Standard metric sheet in mm. The equivalent thicknesses differ for each gauge size standard which were developed based on the weight of the sheet for a given material.