Standard Metric Sheet Metal Thickness

304 316 409 420 430 cold rolled stainless sheet.

Standard metric sheet metal thickness.

For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter. Cold rolled carbon steel sheet metal is used in automotive panels trailer siding roofing and fuel tanks. I am in need of some information on common metric sheet metal sizes. The sheet metal does however have a tolerance on the rolling thickness which needs to be taken into account when designing a tight fitting assembly especially as the sheet metal material gets thicker.

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

The sheet metal is identified by gauge for example 12 ga. If there is anyon. Related product s the thickness of sheet metal is commonly specified by a traditional non linear measure known as its gauge. However i am working on something that requires that all datasesets to be metric by default and i want to make certain i am using common sizes.

Sheet metal gauge thickness chart 2019 10 24t01 36 33 00 00 when working with sheet metal the term gauge is often used. Cold rolled steel sheets dc01 electro galvanized steel sheets dc01 ze and hot dip galvanized steel sheets dx51d. Thickness tolerance specified width. Sheet metal is manufactured and delivered from the processing mill rolled to the standard thickness that you specify which is now metric.

Gauges are neither standard nor metric and the values are independent of those measurement systems. Please note that astm states in specification astm a480 10a the use of gage number is discouraged as being an archaic term of limited usefulness not having general agreement on. Sheet metal thickness gauges for steel are based on a weight of 41 82 pounds per square foot per inch of thickness. What are sheet metal gauges.

A sheet metal gauge sometimes spelled gage indicates the standard thickness of sheet metal for a specific material. We offer three types of metric low carbon steel sheets. As the gauge number increases the material thickness decreases. Equal to less than 1000 1000 thru 1300 1300 thru 2100.

The equivalent thicknesses differ for each gauge size standard which were developed based on the weight of the sheet for a given material.