Sheet metal thickness gauges for steel are based on a weight of 41 82 pounds per square foot per inch of thickness.
Aluminum sheet metal gauge thickness.
For other materials such as aluminum and brass the thicknesses will be different.
Thus a 10 gauge steel sheet which has a thickness of 0 1345 inches will weigh.
General information of aluminum sheet thickness.
In most of the world sheet metal thickness is consistently specified in millimeters.
Commonly used steel sheet metal ranges from 30 gauge to about 7 gauge.
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.
For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter.
Gauge to thickness chart click here for a printable pdf chart gauge.
The aluminum sheet metal thickness can be divided into four categories.
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.
The larger the gauge number the thinner the metal.
Sheet steel aluminum.