This is known as the manufacturers standard gage for sheet steel.
Aluminum sheet metal gauge thickness.
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.
For other materials such as aluminum and brass the thicknesses will be different.
Gauge to thickness chart.
Thus a 10 gauge steel sheet which has a thickness of 0 1345 inches will weigh 41 82 0 1345 5 625 pounds per square foot.
For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter.
Sheet metal thickness gauges for steel are based on a weight of 41 82 pounds per square foot per inch of thickness.
The equivalent thicknesses differ for each gauge size standard which were developed based on the weight of the sheet for a given material.
The gauge number 18 holds no relevance to the actual measurements.
As the gauge number increases the material thickness decreases.
0135 0 3 0113 0 3 0141 0 3 dimension in inches millimeters.
General information of aluminum sheet thickness.
For example in one gauge system 18 gauge steel measures 0 0478 inches thick but 18 gauge aluminum is 0 0403 inches thick.
There are several different gauge systems used today with specific gauge designations used for specific metal types.
0149 0 4 0126 0 3 0156 0 4 29.
Gauge to thickness chart.