This is known as the manufacturers standard gage for sheet steel.
Standard brass sheet metal thickness.
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.
Gauge when applied to copper brass or silver means a different set of thicknesses however.
As with steel as the gauge gets higher the thickness gets lower.
Take for instance 12 gauge thickness across the material types listed below.
For 18 ga crs the weight is 2 0 pounds per square foot and for 20 ga crs the weight is 1 5 pounds per square foot.
In an earlier article we took a look at the standard gauges for steel sheet.
It s based on the american or brown and sharpe wire gauge standard.
This cross reference table based on brown and sharpe will help you convert gauge to inches and pounds per square foot.
A sheet metal gauge gage is an indication of the standard thickness of specific metal materials such as steel aluminum and copper.
For other materials such as aluminum and brass the thicknesses will be different.
Unlike with steel i can t find a set.
B36 b36m 18 standard specification for brass plate sheet strip and rolled bar copper alloy plates brass sheet copper alloy sheets copper alloy strips rolled copper alloy bars.
The thicknesses of our brass sheet begin at 0 02 and goes up to 0 125.
Stainless steel is 0 105 thick aluminum is 0 080 copper is 0 108 and brass is 0 081.
Muntz metal 60.
It is important to know that the gauge thicknesses also vary depending on the type of sheet metal being referenced.
If you are in need of something thinner than brass sheet our brass coil sheeting ranges in thickness from 0 005 or 8 gauge to 0 020 or 24 gauge.