Standard Sheet Metal Thicknesses Metric

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Standard sheet metal thicknesses metric.

Equal to less than 1000 1000 thru 1300 1300 thru 2100. A sheet metal gauge sometimes spelled gage indicates the standard thickness of sheet metal for a specific material. Gauges are neither standard nor metric and the values are independent of those measurement systems. As the gauge number increases the material thickness decreases.

Sheet metal is manufactured and delivered from the processing mill rolled to the standard thickness that you specify which is now metric. 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. Cold rolled carbon steel sheet metal is used in automotive panels trailer siding roofing and fuel tanks. A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters.

Gague are used to specify the thickness of a metal sheet. We offer three types of metric low carbon steel sheets. Thickness tolerance specified width. Gague ga is a length measurement unit for diameters originating in north america and belongs to the browne sharpe metering system.

When working with sheet metal the term gauge is often used. Our premium steel plate and sheet metal also known as hot rolled coil hot rolled plate or simply metal plate is available in a variety of thicknesses from 3mm 80mm to suit the needs of every project. 304 316 409 420 430 cold rolled stainless sheet.