Sheet metal thickness gauges for steel are based on a weight of 41 82 pounds per square foot per inch of thickness.
Common sheet metal thickness metric.
1000 thru 1300.
Cold rolled carbon steel sheet metal is used in automotive panels trailer siding roofing and fuel tanks.
A sheet metal gauge sometimes spelled gage indicates the standard thickness of sheet metal for a specific material.
1 6 1 8 2 2 2 2 5 2 8 3 3 5 4 4 5 5 6 8 10 12 this type of stock comes in rolls or sheets.
Custom cutting services are also available.
We offer three types of metric low carbon steel sheets.
1300 thru 2100.
The gauge number 18 holds no relevance to the actual measurements.
The high quality finish makes stainless steel sheet an excellent choice for the food industry whether that is food production or storage we offer stainless steel sheet in a variety of grades and common metric sizes.
As for sheetmetal in south africa common sizes in mm are.
Anything thicker sheets only note these are probably mostly metric equivalents to common imperial sizes tolerance seems to be 4 and 8.
For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter.
Stainless steel sheet has great durability and tensile strength.
As the gauge number increases the material thickness decreases.
A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters.