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Gauge of auto sheet metal.
The manufacturers standard gage provides the thicknesses for standard steel galvanized steel and stainless steel.
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.
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The restoration pros at auto metal direct produce only premium amd sheet metal parts that are made from proper gauge steel and include all necessary clips tabs flanges bends and seams.
Automotive sheet metal once ran in the range of 18 gauge which was 48 thousandths of an inch thick actually 0 0478 inch.
20 gauge became common in more recent times and this meant 0 0359 inch thick metal still a lot to work with in bumping and metal finishing.
The equivalent thicknesses differ for each gauge size standard which were developed based on the weight of the sheet for a given material.
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Sheet steel 2 x 4 18g for cold rolled flat sheet steel part number.
For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter.
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Crs 2418 g 18 gauge 24 x 48 cold rolled flat steel.
The gauge number 18 holds no relevance to the actual measurements.
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