how thick is a 10 gauge wire in inches? (as in a "10 gauge wire mesh")?

Question

I need it for a construction project.

Thanks!

Al

Answer 1

It is 0.135 inches.
Go to http://trueforce.com/encyclopaedia/wire_gauge_table.htm for complete chart of other sizes.

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Answer 2

10 Gauge Wire Diameter

Answer 3

In American Wire Gauge (AWG), the diameter of 10 gauge electrically conducting wire is widely regarded as 0.102 inch - rounded up from 0.1019”, which is rounded up from 0.10189” - which is no doubt rounded up from something else.

So, that goes for 10 gauge wire mesh, too? Well, not really. According to the folks at Woven Wire Cloth Sales, who sell wire mesh, or in trade lingo, wire cloth for a living, lay persons who are unfamiliar with the wacky ways of woven wire cloth often become quickly confused when discussing the product in terms of gauge numbers. This is due in no small part to a diverse variety of methods for denoting the gauges for a dizzying range of product design specifications, weave styles, and materials.

Once you have chosen your particular Bolting Cloth, Filter Cloth, Fine Mesh Cloth, Market Grade Cloth, Mill Grade Cloth, Industrial Hardware Cloth, Space Cloth (from which Captain Jean-Luc Picard’s uniform is made, one would assume), you are certainly free to specify 10 gauge thickness. That specification, however, will result in one of the following four actual wire diameters:

.1350" (Washburn & Moen)
.1280" (British Imperial Standard or S.W.G.)
.1340" (Birmingham or Stubs)
.1018" (American Wire Gauge or Brown & Sharpe)

The folks at Woven Wire Cloth Sales post some comments well worth reading regarding this perplexing dilemma, but the text is copyrighted so I cannot quote it directly. In a nutshell, they pretty much say that when talking about wire cloth or wire mesh it is preferable to state the exact dimensions in decimal fractions of an inch (or millimeters) than to risk monkeying around with arbitrary gauge numbers. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

here you go, the one you want is .1280 inch.

S.W.G. Wire Number A.W.G. or B&S A.W.G. Metric
(Inches) (Gauge) (Inches) (MM)

0.500 0000000 (7/0) ....................... ............
0.464 000000 (6/0) 0.580000 ............
0.432 00000 (5/0) 0.516500 ............
0.400 0000 (4/0) 0.460000 11,684
0.372 000 (3/0) 0.409642 10,404
0.348 00 (2/0) 0.364796 9,266
0.324 0 (1/0) 0.324861 8,252
0.300 1 0.289297 7,348
0.276 2 0.257627 6,543
0.252 3 0.229423 5,827
0.232 4 0.2043 5,189
0.2120 5 0.1819 4,621
0.1920 6 0.1620 4,115
0.1760 7 0.1443 3,665
0.1600 8 0.1285 3,264
0.1440 9 0.1144 2,906
0.1280 10 0.1019 2,588
0.1160 11 0.0907 2,304
0.1040 12 0.0808 2,052
S.W.G. Wire Number A.W.G. or B&S A.W.G. Metric
0.0920 13 0.0720 1,829
0.0800 14 0.0641 1,628
0.0720 15 0.0571 1,450
0.0640 16 0.0508 1,291
0.0560 17 0.0453 1,150
0.0480 18 0.0403 1,024
0.0400 19 0.0359 0,9119
0.0360 20 0.0320 0,8128
0.0320 21 0.0285 0,7239
0.0280 22 0.0253 0,6426
0.0240 23 0.0226 0,5740
0.0220 24 0.0201 0,5106
0.0200 25 0.0179 0,4547
0.0180 26 0.0159 0,4038
0.0164 27 0.0142 0,3606
0.0148 28 0.0126 0,3200
0.0136 29 0.0113 0,2870
0.0124 30 0.0100 0,2540
0.0116 31 0.0089 0,2261
0.0108 32 0.0080 0,2032
0.0100 33 0.0071 0,1803
S.W.G. Wire Number A.W.G. or B&S A.W.G. Metric
0.0092 34 0.0063 0,1601
0.0084 35 0.0056 0,1422
0.0076 36 0.0050 0,1270
0.0068 37 0.0045 0,1143
0.0060 38 0.0040 0,1016
0.0052 39 0.0035 0,0889
0.0048 40 0.0031 0,0787
0.0044 41 0.0028 0,0711
0.0040 42 0.0025 0,0635
0.0036 43 0.0022 0,0559
0.0032 44 0.0020 0,0508
0.0028 45 0.0018 0,0457
0.0024 46 0.0016 0,0406
0.0020 47 0.0014 0,0350
0.0016 48 0.0012 0.0305
0.0012 49 0.0011 0,0279
0.0010 50 0.0010 0,0254
51 0.00088 0,0224
52 0.00078 0,0198
53 0.00070 0,0178
54 0.00062 0,0158
55 0.00055 0,0140
56 0.00049 0,0124

Answer 5

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how thick is a 10 gauge wire in inches? (as in a "10 gauge wire mesh")?
I need it for a construction project.

Thanks!

Al

Answer 6

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Unless you're talking 300 lineal feet, use the #12. If the circuit is really 300' long, use the #10 to the first 200', then the #12.

Answer 7

0.1019 "