Standard Steel Gauges

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Standard steel gauges. In the uk the birmingham gage bg is used for a variety of metals and should not be. For the purpose of securing uniformity the following is established as the only standard gauge for sheet and plate iron and steel in the united states of america namely. For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter. Sponsored links for full table with music wire and stub s steel wire rotate the screen.

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. Number of gauge approximate thickness in fractions of an inch. The manufacturers standard gage provides the thicknesses for standard steel galvanized steel and stainless steel. Gauges are neither standard nor metric and the values are independent of those measurement systems.

Sheet metal thickness gauges for steel are based on a weight of 41 82 pounds per square foot per inch of thickness. Gauge is defined differently for ferrous iron based and non ferrous metals e g. A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters.