I am trying to imagine the thickness of a metal sheet that I am told is 0.15. When I asked if this was mm. they said no, that it was in thousands. I am buying a product on the internet and would like to compare this measurement to something that will give me an idea of how thick the metal will be (for example, a sheet of paper, a sheet of cardboard, etc.)...
2007-09-13 06:29:16 · 3 answers · asked by nikita 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
.150" is slightly under 5/32" (.1563). That is about 3 dimes stacked together or 2 1/2 pennies. I agree that is more like a plate than a sheet of metal. Hair is about .004 to put perspective on it.
2007-09-13 13:08:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was common practice in the US for machinists to use the thousandth of an inch as the basic unit of measurement. He MAY have meant .15", or "a hundred and fifty thousandths." It is about 4mm.
He may have also meant fifteen thousandths. or .015" this is about .5mm, or 1/32"
Based on what I know of sheet metal guage sizes, .015 is the most likely. At a size of.150" or more, we start to call it plate, not sheet.
2007-09-13 13:59:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure it's 0.15 thousandths of an inch? That would be .00015 inches (or about 5.9 µm or .0000059 m) which is awfully thin. It's difficult to find gold-leaf that's much under a thousandth..........
Doug
2007-09-13 13:44:12 · answer #3 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋