The aluminum sheet metal thickness can be divided into four categories.
Aluminum sheet metal gauge thickness.
For other materials such as aluminum and brass the thicknesses will be different.
This is known as the manufacturers standard gage for sheet steel.
For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter.
Commonly used steel sheet metal ranges from 30 gauge to about 7 gauge.
In most of the world sheet metal thickness is consistently specified in millimeters.
A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters.
Sheet metal thickness gauges for steel are based on a weight of 41 82 pounds per square foot per inch of thickness.
General information of aluminum sheet thickness.
In the u s the thickness of sheet metal is commonly specified by a traditional non linear measure known as its gauge.
Gauge to thickness chart click here for a printable pdf chart gauge.
Sheet steel aluminum.
The larger the gauge number the thinner the metal.