This is known as the manufacturers standard gage for sheet steel.
Steel metal sheet thickness.
The manufacturers standard gage provides the thicknesses for standard steel galvanized steel and stainless steel.
0 0187 0 452 0 0217 0 55 0 0179 0 45 0 0159 40 25.
Inches mm inches mm 26.
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 29 0 0141 0 36 0 0172 0 44 0 0135 0 34 0 0113 0 29 28 1 64 0 0156 0 41 0 0187 0 47 0 0149 0 38 0 0126 0 32.
For other materials such as aluminum and brass the thicknesses will be different.
Gague are used to specify the thickness of a metal sheet.
The brown and sharpe gage also known as the american wire gage awg is used for most non ferrous metals such as aluminum and brass.
Sheet metal gauge thickness chart 2019 10 24t01 36 33 00 00 when working with sheet metal the term gauge is often used.
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.
A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters.
The gauge number 18 holds no relevance to the actual measurements.
The equivalent thicknesses differ for each gauge size standard which were developed based on the weight of the sheet for a given material.