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How to convert guage(thickness) to merter or milimeter ?

2006-10-15 18:11:56 · 2 answers · asked by priyesh 1 in Science & Mathematics Engineering

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Here's a few of them I have found in table format.
This is the best of the bunch in my opinion.
http://www.onlineconversion.com/gauge_sheet_metal.htm

2006-10-15 18:18:29 · answer #1 · answered by Answerer17 6 · 0 0

American wire gauge (AWG), also known as the "Brown and Sharpe" wire gauge, is used in the United States and other countries as a standard method of denoting wire diameter, especially for nonferrous, electrically conducting wire. The steel industry uses a different numbering system for their wire thickness gages (e.g. W&M Wire Gage or US Steel Wire Gage or the different Music Wire Gage) so data below does not apply to steel wire.

Increasing gauge numbers give decreasing wire diameters, which is similar to many other non-metric gauging systems. This seemingly-counterintuitive numbering is derived from the fact that the gauge number is related to the number of drawing operations that must be used to produce a given gauge of wire; very fine wire (for example, 30 gauge) requires far more passes through the drawing dies than does 0 gauge wire.

Note that for gauges 5 through about 14, the wire gauge is effectively the number of bare solid wires that, when placed side by side, span 1 inch. That is, 8 gauge is about 1/8" in diameter.

In the same fashion, AWG is also commonly used to specify body piercing jewelry sizes, especially smaller sizes

(THE SAME ANSWER again for the similar question)

2006-10-17 01:30:30 · answer #2 · answered by maran 2 · 0 0

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