Brass Sheet Metal Gauge Thickness Chart

Sheet metal gauge size chart 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.

Brass sheet metal gauge thickness chart.

It is the same alloy as our jewelers bronze wire. It s based on the american or brown and sharpe wire gauge standard. Take for instance 12 gauge thickness across the material types listed below. In an earlier article we took a look at the standard gauges for steel sheet.

Gauge to thickness chart gauge stainless galvanized sheet steel aluminum fraction inches mm inches mm inches mm inches mm 30 0 0125 0 33 0 0157 0 40 0 0120 0 30 0 0100 0 25. Brass sheet for craft jewelry these are special alloys of copper zinc made to resemble gold more about this in sheet metal jeweler s bronze sheet right has deep gold color is also known as 230 brass and is 85 copper. Gauge when applied to copper brass or silver means a different set of thicknesses however. As with steel as the gauge gets higher the thickness gets lower.

Unlike with steel i can t find a set. A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters. Stainless steel is 0 105 thick aluminum is 0 080 copper is 0 108 and brass is 0 081. Yellow brass sheet left has a light bright gold color.