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Re: Sheet metal gauges

To: Malcolm Walker <walker05@camosun.bc.ca>
Subject: Re: Sheet metal gauges
From: ron botting <rcb2@istar.ca>
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 06:51:49 -0800
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
At 07:45 PM 4/2/98 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Tonight I found a piece of the old metal that had red paint on both sides
>(original!)- put the micrometer on it and came up with a thickness of
>0.0423".  The new metal is 0.0300" (22 ga?)
>
>Should I be worried?  Is paint 1/100 of an inch thick?
>
>Anyone know offhand the decimal equivalents for sheet metal?  My Pocket
>Ref has found someone else's pocket to be in right now :-(
>
>thanks,
>-Malcolm
>

.0598 = 16 GA.
.0538 = 17 
.0478 = 18 
.0418 = 19
.0359 = 20
.0329 = 21
.0299 = 22
.0269 = 23
  
regards
rcb


Ron Botting
Surrey, B.C. Canada
rcb2@istar.ca
'73 450SL
'57 TR3A (TS23731)

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