Standard Sheet Metal Thicknesses Metric

For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart.

Standard sheet metal thicknesses metric.

Sheet metal thickness gauges for steel are based on a weight of 41 82 pounds per square foot per inch of thickness. Our premium steel plate and sheet metal also known as hot rolled coil hot rolled plate or simply metal plate is available in a variety of thicknesses from 3mm 80mm to suit the needs of every project. Originally used in the fields of medicine and jewellery the larger the. 304 316 409 420 430 cold rolled stainless sheet.

A sheet metal gauge sometimes spelled gage indicates the standard thickness of sheet metal for a specific material. Equal to less than 1000 1000 thru 1300 1300 thru 2100. Gauges are neither standard nor metric and the values are independent of those measurement systems. Thickness tolerance specified width.

Gague ga is a length measurement unit for diameters originating in north america and belongs to the browne sharpe metering system. Cold rolled steel sheets dc01 electro galvanized steel sheets dc01 ze and hot dip galvanized steel sheets dx51d. Sheet metal is manufactured and delivered from the processing mill rolled to the standard thickness that you specify which is now metric. We offer three types of metric low carbon steel sheets.

When working with sheet metal the term gauge is often used. As the gauge number increases the material thickness decreases. Gague are used to specify the thickness of a metal sheet.