Whether you re working on a classic american car from 1957 or a truck made as recently as 2007 eastwood has sheet metal to help you fix it.
Car panel sheet metal gauge.
Sheet metal gauge size chart 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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When doing old car restorations sometimes its simpler to replace an entire panel instead of trying to straighten it or repair rust spots.
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For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter.
Automotive sheet metal once ran in the range of 18 gauge which was 48 thousandths of an inch thick actually 0 0478 inch.
A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters.
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.