Common Sheet Metal Thickness Metric

As the gauge number increases the material thickness decreases.

Common sheet metal thickness metric.

As for sheetmetal in south africa common sizes in mm are. Sheet metal thickness gauges for steel are based on a weight of 41 82 pounds per square foot per inch of thickness. The gauge number 18 holds no relevance to the actual measurements. The high quality finish makes stainless steel sheet an excellent choice for the food industry whether that is food production or storage we offer stainless steel sheet in a variety of grades and common metric sizes.

Cold rolled carbon steel sheet metal is used in automotive panels trailer siding roofing and fuel tanks. Stainless steel sheet has great durability and tensile strength. 1 6 1 8 2 2 2 2 5 2 8 3 3 5 4 4 5 5 6 8 10 12 this type of stock comes in rolls or sheets. 1000 thru 1300.

Cold rolled steel sheets dc01 electro galvanized steel sheets dc01 ze and hot dip galvanized steel sheets dx51d. We offer three types of metric low carbon steel sheets. Anything thicker sheets only note these are probably mostly metric equivalents to common imperial sizes tolerance seems to be 4 and 8. 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. Custom cutting services are also available. 1300 thru 2100.