British Standard Sheet Metal Thickness

Their equivalents in inches are displayed in table 1.

British standard sheet metal thickness.

Gauges are old measures of thickness. It most likely originated from the british wire industry before the standard and metric measurement systems were widely. Sheet metal is one of the fundamental forms used in metalworking and it can be cut and bent into a variety of shapes countless everyday objects are fabricated from sheet metal. Compared with the old british standard tolerances bs en 10259 has the following differences.

Sheet metal is one of the shapes and forms metal can be bought in. One us gauge for sheet metal is based on the weight of the sheet not on the thick ness. Relevant en standards for metal sheets and plates. 44 560 115 7793 email.

Relevant din standards for metal. For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter. Foils sheets and plates are pretty much the same with the only difference being in thickness. En 10 051 continuously hot rolled strip and plate sheet cut from wide strip of non alloy and alloy steels.

Preferred thicknesses are shown and are intended to indicate which gauges are more likely to be available on an ex stock basis from suppliers. Buyers of other thicknesses may be required to purchase full coil weight quantities. A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters. 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.

Millimetres mils gauge. The equivalent thicknesses differ for each gauge size standard which were developed based on the weight of the sheet for a given material. Sheet metal is any metal that has a thickness in between 0 5 6 millimetres. Sheet metal thickness and british standard wire gauge swg swg no inches mm 1 0 300 7 620 5 0 212 5 385 10 0 128 3 251 12 0 104 2 641.

44 151 526 4777 fax. Extremely thin sheets are considered foil or leaf and pieces thicker than 6 mm 0 25 in are considered. En 10 259 wide strip and plate sheet made of stainless steel. In most cases a higher gauge number means smaller.

There are other measurement units used to categorise metals by thickness though. Sheet metal is metal formed by an industrial process into thin flat pieces. Unit 4 yakira buildings 83 sefton lane maghull liverpool l31 8bu. Or the british standard wire gauge.