This is known as the manufacturers standard gage for sheet steel.
Gauge sheet metal weight.
These are american brown sharpe gauges.
The manufacturers standard gage provides the thicknesses for standard steel galvanized steel and stainless steel.
Wire gauges and sheet metal gauges weights ga gauge wgt weight.
For other materials such as aluminum and brass the thicknesses will be different.
Commonly used metals for manufacturing at our shop are.
For sheet metal products.
Gauge ga standard steel galvanized steel stainless steel aluminum brass copper thickness weight thickness weight thickness weight thickness aluminum weight brass weight copper weight.
Ga sheet steel galvanized steel stainless steel aluminum strip tubing.
Sheet metal gauges and weights.
1 ft2 0 0929 m2 1 lb 0 4536 kg.
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.
Aluminum 0 025 0 032 0 040 0 050 0 063 0 080 1 8 0 125 and 1 4 0 25.
Below you will find a chart for metal thicknesses and weights.
The equivalent thicknesses differ for each gauge size standard which were developed based on the weight of the sheet for a given material.
Cold and hot rolled steel 16 gauge 14 gauge 1 8 and 1 4.
Sheet metal thickness gauges for steel are based on a weight of 41 82 pounds per square foot per inch of thickness.