British Standard Sheet Metal Thickness

Sheet metal is metal formed by an industrial process into thin flat pieces.

British standard sheet metal thickness.

Relevant din standards for metal. For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter. They originated in the british iron wire industry at a time. Thicknesses can vary significantly.

One us gauge for sheet metal is based on the weight of the sheet not on the thick ness. 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. Compared with the old british standard tolerances bs en 10259 has the following differences. Foils sheets and plates are pretty much the same with the only difference being in thickness.

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. Millimetres mils gauge. Their equivalents in inches are displayed in table 1. 44 560 115 7793 email.

Preferred thicknesses are shown and are intended to indicate which gauges are more likely to be available on an ex stock basis from suppliers. Sheet metal is one of the shapes and forms metal can be bought in. Extremely thin sheets are considered foil or leaf and pieces thicker than 6 mm 0 25 in are considered. A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters.

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. 44 151 526 4777 fax. In most cases a higher gauge number means smaller. Or the british standard wire gauge.

There are other measurement units used to categorise metals by thickness though. Gauges are old measures of thickness. En 10 051 continuously hot rolled strip and plate sheet cut from wide strip of non alloy and alloy steels. En 10 029 hot rolled steel plates 3 mm thick or above tolerances on dimensions and shape.

Unit 4 yakira buildings 83 sefton lane maghull liverpool l31 8bu. Relevant en standards for metal sheets and plates. En 10 259 wide strip and plate sheet made of stainless steel. The equivalent thicknesses differ for each gauge size standard which were developed based on the weight of the sheet for a given material.