This is known as the manufacturers standard gage for sheet steel.
Aluminum sheet metal gauge thickness.
The larger the gauge number the thinner the metal.
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.
Commonly used steel sheet metal ranges from 30 gauge to about 7 gauge.
The aluminum sheet metal thickness can be divided into four categories.
In the u s the thickness of sheet metal is commonly specified by a traditional non linear measure known as its gauge.
General information of aluminum sheet thickness.
An aluminum sheet metal thickness refers to the thickness of an aluminium sheets a flat square or rectangle piece of aluminum material with a thickness of between 0 2mm and 500mm a width of 200mm some are even 50mm and above and more and a length of 16m or less.
A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters.
Sheet metal thickness gauges for steel are based on a weight of 41 82 pounds per square foot per inch of thickness.
Thus a 10 gauge steel sheet which has a thickness of 0 1345 inches will weigh.
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.