For other materials such as aluminum and brass the thicknesses will be different.
Steel sheet metal gauge thickness.
A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters.
The larger the gauge number the thinner the metal.
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.
The equivalent thicknesses differ for each gauge size standard which were developed based on the weight of the sheet for a given material.
Thus a 10 gauge steel sheet which has a thickness of 0 1345 inches will weigh.
In most of the world sheet metal thickness is consistently specified in millimeters.
For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter.
Sheet metal gauge size chart gauge or gage sizes are numbers that indicate the thickness of a piece of sheet metal with a higher number referring to a thinner sheet.
This is known as the manufacturers standard gage for sheet steel.
In the u s the thickness of sheet metal is commonly specified by a traditional non linear measure known as its gauge.