British Standard Sheet Metal Thickness

En 10 259 wide strip and plate sheet made of stainless steel.

British standard sheet metal thickness.

Sheet metal is any metal that has a thickness in between 0 5 6 millimetres. Preferred thicknesses are shown and are intended to indicate which gauges are more likely to be available on an ex stock basis from suppliers. Relevant din standards for metal. Their equivalents in inches are displayed in table 1.

There are other measurement units used to categorise metals by thickness though. Or the british standard wire gauge. Foils sheets and plates are pretty much the same with the only difference being in thickness. For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter.

Gauges are old measures of thickness. En 10 029 hot rolled steel plates 3 mm thick or above tolerances on dimensions and shape. Millimetres mils gauge. They originated in the british iron wire industry at a time.

Buyers of other thicknesses may be required to purchase full coil weight quantities. One us gauge for sheet metal is based on the weight of the sheet not on the thick ness. Extremely thin sheets are considered foil or leaf and pieces thicker than 6 mm 0 25 in are considered. 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 metal formed by an industrial process into thin flat pieces. It most likely originated from the british wire industry before the standard and metric measurement systems were widely. En 10 051 continuously hot rolled strip and plate sheet cut from wide strip of non alloy and alloy steels. Unit 4 yakira buildings 83 sefton lane maghull liverpool l31 8bu.

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. Thicknesses can vary significantly. Sheet metal is one of the shapes and forms metal can be bought in. Relevant en standards for metal sheets and plates.

44 151 526 4777 fax. 44 560 115 7793 email. In most cases a higher gauge number means smaller. Compared with the old british standard tolerances bs en 10259 has the following differences.