Gauge Of Metal Sheets

Cold and hot rolled steel.

Gauge of metal sheets. National hardware 4070bc 18 in. Set your store to see local availability add to cart. 24 gauge 20 gauge 18 gauge and 16 gauge. Popular uses for hr steel sheet include.

Sheet metal plain steel yellow 16 gauge sku. M d building products 1 ft. The equivalent thicknesses differ for each gauge size standard which were developed based on the weight of the sheet for a given material. A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters.

Thus a 10 gauge steel sheet which has a. C1008 1010 hr steel sheet astm a1011 a569 hot rolled steel sheets are the most economical steel sheets available for a wide variety of applications hr steel sheets are easy to weld form and drill and has a slight grainy surface. Sheet metal thickness gauges for steel are based on a weight of 41 82 pounds per square foot per inch of thickness. Click here for a gauge to mm conversion chart.

Manufacturers express the thickness of metal panels as their gauge with 22 gauge being the thickest and 29 gauge the thinnest of traditionally sold metal roof and wall panels. Satin nick elliptical aluminum sheet model 57010 18 98 18 98. Processing may include polishing or the applying of protective plastics which will decrease or increase a sheet s thickness respectively. For example a 26 gauge steel panel can range between 0 0179 and 0 0217 inches thick according to a university of north carolina at chapel hill resource.

For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter. A sheet metal gauge sometimes spelled gage indicates the standard thickness of sheet metal for a specific material. Magnetic brinell 95. 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.

16 gauge 14 gauge 1 8 and 1 4. Free delivery with 45 order. 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. Kynar galvalume steel for metal roofing and gutters.

Free delivery with 45 order. 22 gauge metal sheet model 801447 8 98 8 98. Sheet metal thickness is denoted by gauge sometimes spelled gage which indicates a standard thickness before processing. Each gauge represents a nominal decimal range.

As the gauge number increases the material thickness decreases. Gauges are used to specify the thickness of a sheet metal. For other materials such as aluminum and brass the thicknesses will be different. 48 oz 24 oz 20 oz and 16 oz.

Gauges are neither standard nor metric and the values are independent of those measurement systems.