Standard Sheet Metal Thicknesses Metric

Sheet metal thickness gauges for steel are based on a weight of 41 82 pounds per square foot per inch of thickness.

Standard sheet metal thicknesses metric.

Cold rolled carbon steel sheet metal is used in automotive panels trailer siding roofing and fuel tanks. Sheet metal is manufactured and delivered from the processing mill rolled to the standard thickness that you specify which is now metric. When working with sheet metal the term gauge is often used. A sheet metal gauge sometimes spelled gage indicates the standard thickness of sheet metal for a specific material.

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. As the gauge number increases the material thickness decreases. Equal to less than 1000 1000 thru 1300 1300 thru 2100. Originally used in the fields of medicine and jewellery the larger the.

Cold rolled steel sheets dc01 electro galvanized steel sheets dc01 ze and hot dip galvanized steel sheets dx51d. Gague are used to specify the thickness of a metal sheet. For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart. Gague ga is a length measurement unit for diameters originating in north america and belongs to the browne sharpe metering system.

Thickness tolerance specified width. 304 316 409 420 430 cold rolled stainless sheet. We offer three types of metric low carbon steel sheets.