Ryerson offers heat treatable aluminum sheet grades like the popular 6061 aluminum alloy that can be used for commercial applications that require strength corrosion resistance and machinability as well as non heat treatable grades when formability and weldability are priorities.
Standard aluminum sheet stock thickness.
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.
6061 aluminum sheet plate offers a combination of higher strength good corrosion resistance and machinability making the 6061 grade the most widely used aluminum sheet and plate grade available for all types of fabrication projects the general purpose 6061 aluminum sheet plate is heat treatable resists cracking due to stress and is easy to weld and machine but limited on formability.
If the intended metal facing has formed edges the overall standard blank size should always fall within the above dimensions.
Sheet steel aluminum.
Product thickness in 019 in 2 019 1 02 in 12 025 in 2 073 in 1 09 in 4 0 0126.
Aluminum is a general purpose alloy commonly used in extrusions and is also available in sheet metal.
Gauges are neither standard nor metric and the values are independent of those measurement systems.
How are sheet metal gauges used.
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Aluminum sheet thickness tolerances 1100 3003 5052 6061 2024 7075 1100 3003 5052 6061 2024 7075 1100 3003 5052 6061 2024 7075 190 007 0055 009 007.
Gauges are used to specify the thickness of a sheet metal.
A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters.
Gauge to thickness chart click here for a printable pdf chart gauge.
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The equivalent thicknesses differ for each gauge size standard which were developed based on the weight of the sheet for a given material.
However it is not recommended for sheet metal work because it tends to crack on the outside radii once it passes its yield and therefore requires a much larger radii to be able to bend properly.
Plain metal sheets of architectural quality vary in thickness between 025 60 mm and 124 3 mm.
6061 aluminum is also very easy to machine.
For example 18 gauge steel according to.