Common Sheet Metal Thickness Metric

Cold rolled carbon steel sheet metal is used in automotive panels trailer siding roofing and fuel tanks.

Common sheet metal thickness metric.

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. Galvanized steel sheets offer a better defense against corrosion and are easy to weld and drill. 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.

Stainless steel sheet has great durability and tensile strength. For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter. 1000 thru 1300. A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters.

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. Sheet metal thickness gauges for steel are based on a weight of 41 82 pounds per square foot per inch of thickness. A sheet metal gauge sometimes spelled gage indicates the standard thickness of sheet metal for a specific material. The gauge number 18 holds no relevance to the actual measurements.

As the gauge number increases the material thickness decreases. We offer three types of metric low carbon steel sheets. Cold rolled steel sheets dc01 electro galvanized steel sheets dc01 ze and hot dip galvanized steel sheets dx51d.