British Standard Sheet Metal Thickness

Their equivalents in inches are displayed in table 1.

British standard sheet metal thickness.

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 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. Or the british standard wire gauge. Compared with the old british standard tolerances bs en 10259 has the following differences.

Unit 4 yakira buildings 83 sefton lane maghull liverpool l31 8bu. One us gauge for sheet metal is based on the weight of the sheet not on the thick ness. Sheet metal is any metal that has a thickness in between 0 5 6 millimetres. En 10 051 continuously hot rolled strip and plate sheet cut from wide strip of non alloy and alloy steels.

In most cases a higher gauge number means smaller. En 10 259 wide strip and plate sheet made of stainless steel. Extremely thin sheets are considered foil or leaf and pieces thicker than 6 mm 0 25 in are considered. Sheet metal is metal formed by an industrial process into thin flat pieces.

For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter. 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. A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters. En 10 029 hot rolled steel plates 3 mm thick or above tolerances on dimensions and shape.

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. They originated in the british iron wire industry at a time. Millimetres mils gauge. 44 151 526 4777 fax.

Sheet metal is one of the shapes and forms metal can be bought in. Foils sheets and plates are pretty much the same with the only difference being in thickness. 44 560 115 7793 email. The equivalent thicknesses differ for each gauge size standard which were developed based on the weight of the sheet for a given material.

Relevant en standards for metal sheets and plates. There are other measurement units used to categorise metals by thickness though. Gauges are old measures of thickness. Buyers of other thicknesses may be required to purchase full coil weight quantities.