Choosing Sheet Metal Gauge

The thicker the piece of sheet metal the heavier in weight the material is for building.

Choosing sheet metal gauge. The gauge number 18 holds no relevance to the actual measurements. Choose the check mark to use a gauge table. With custom sheet metal fabrication always note that the higher the number of the gauge the thinner the metal. 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.

Choosing the right gauge sheet metal for your fabrication now moving into something that will be more specific to each customer and each sheet metal project. A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters. This is choosing the right thickness or gauge of sheet metal. Next we use the pull down menu to select the appropriate table.

The manufacturers standard gage provides the thicknesses for standard steel galvanized steel and stainless steel. For sheet metal parts 5052 is preferred as the metal can bend to a tighter radius than 6061 without cracking. With a sheet metal gauge table the process is simplified to just a few clicks. Selecting sheet metal thickness requires familiarity with material gauges.

The equivalent thicknesses differ for each gauge size standard which were developed based on the weight of the sheet for a given material. First we choose the option to use a gauge table.