Gauge into Thickness

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Anonymous Poster	Gauge into Thickness 09/27/2009 6:16 AM
	Hi everybody, Can you teach me on how to calculate or compute galvanized steel thickness if I know only its gauge. Thanks.
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JohnDG Guru Join Date: May 2006 Location: Reading, Berkshire, UK. Going under cover. Posts: 9684 Good Answers: 468	#1 Re: Gauge into Thickness 09/27/2009 7:29 AM
	See this table. Took about 15 seconds to find using Google, including typing the search term. If you need to know the thickness including galvanization layers, consult a supplier (the thickness may vary). __________________ "Love justice, you who rule the world" - Dante Alighieri
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Anonymous Poster	#2 In reply to #1 Re: Gauge into Thickness 09/27/2009 11:58 AM
	Just like asking how to solve the hypotenuse and you gave me the formula of pythagorean theorem. What i mean is I need the proof on how to derived on those thicknesses based on its gauge.
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JohnDG Guru Join Date: May 2006 Location: Reading, Berkshire, UK. Going under cover. Posts: 9684 Good Answers: 468	#3 In reply to #2 Re: Gauge into Thickness 09/27/2009 3:45 PM
	That's like asking " prove that a #8 woodscrew has a shank diameter of 0.164in ". There is no proof - it is so by definition. A bunch of guys got together & decided on a scale of sheet metal thicknesses - just as another bunch of guys deliberated about woodscrew dimensions. Just accept it. "Just like asking how to solve the hypotenuse and you gave me the formula of Pythagorean theorem ..." - what would've been wrong with that? [Except that asking how to solve the hypotenuse is nonsense - a hypotenuse cannot be solved. It is like asking how to solve the brick. I suspect you meant "how to solve for the hypotenuse ..."] __________________ "Love justice, you who rule the world" - Dante Alighieri
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woodygb Power-User Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 308 Good Answers: 28	#4 In reply to #3 Re: Gauge into Thickness 09/27/2009 7:38 PM
	"There is no proof - it is so by definition." Absolutely right. "The gauge number selection is arbitrary, there is no equation that can translate gauge number into thickness." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thickness_vs_gauge.png Regards Woody
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Mikerho Guru Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Moses Lake, WA, USA, Thulcandra - The Silent Planet (C.S. Lewis) Posts: 4216 Good Answers: 194	#5 In reply to #3 Re: Gauge into Thickness 09/28/2009 8:49 AM
	GA from me too - now you've 100 __________________ "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone." - Ayn Rand
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JohnDG Guru Join Date: May 2006 Location: Reading, Berkshire, UK. Going under cover. Posts: 9684 Good Answers: 468	#6 In reply to #5 Re: Gauge into Thickness 09/28/2009 8:52 AM
	Gee, thanks . __________________ "Love justice, you who rule the world" - Dante Alighieri
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