Brass Sheet Metal Gauge Thickness Chart

Gauge to thickness chart click here for a printable pdf chart gauge.

Brass sheet metal gauge thickness chart. In an earlier article we took a look at the standard gauges for steel sheet. 26 gauge 24 gauge 20 gauge 18 gauge 16 gauge 14 gauge 1 8 and 1 4. Take for instance 12 gauge thickness across the material types listed below. 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.

Thus a 10. 0 027 or 0 032 for seamless gutters and any other thickness for custom gutters. 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. For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter.

This is known as the manufacturers standard gage for sheet steel. The metal gauge chart will list the gauge number and the corresponding thickness of certain metal in inches or millimeters. Stainless steel is 0 105 thick aluminum is 0 080 copper is 0 108 and brass is 0 081. For other materials such as aluminum and brass the thicknesses will be different.

It is important to know that the gauge thicknesses also vary depending on the type of sheet metal being referenced. The sheet metal gauges are neither standard nor metric the numbers are independent of measurement systems and do not mean actually measured value. As the gauge number increases the material thickness decreases. Gauge when applied to copper brass or silver means a different set of thicknesses however.

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. As with steel as the gauge gets higher the thickness gets lower. The equivalent thicknesses differ for each gauge size standard which were developed based on the weight of the sheet for a given material.

It s based on the american or brown and sharpe wire gauge standard. Unlike with steel i can t find a set. You can use the chart to confirm the metal thickness for the cnc machining process or material selection. Kynar aluminum for metal roofing.

0 7 mm 0 8mm and 1 5 mm.