[TheForge] Sheet vs plate

[David E. Smucker]

I getting old or tired or both -- in the for "what it worth" aluminum foil 
is 0.005 and below sheet is 0.006 and above.  In house we use 1/8 inch or 
0.125 and the cut off between sheet and plate.  This was because 0.125 was 
the common light end of hot rolling, although some aluminum is hot rolled to 
below 0.125 today.

In steel a whole lot of material is hot rolled down to much thinner gauges. 
Still there is a overlap between plate and sheet -- sheet going up to 4 
gauge (0.224) and plate going down to 3/16 or (0.188)

Dave Smucker


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David E. Smucker" <davesmucker at hotmail.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Sheet vs plate


> For steel, most listing start with plate at 3/16 inch thick, but also call 
> it sheet up to 4 gauge which is about 0.224 so there is some overlap.  In 
> fact you can buy coiled plate starting at 3/16 thick up to 1/2 inch 
> thick --  but it is called coiled plate.
>
> In aluminum 1/8 inch is the common cut off point between sheet and plate 
> 1/8 and below being sheet and 1/8+ being plate. For what it is worth the 
> cutoff point between sheet and foil is 0.001 inch.  0.001 and below is 
> foil, above is sheet.
>
> Dave Smucker
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Kilpatrick" <crimsonkil at lycos.com>
> To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 4:57 PM
> Subject: [TheForge] Sheet vs plate
>
>
> Hi guys,
>     What is the cutoff for calling something sheet or plate, in gage or 
> english measure?
>
> -Chris K.
>
>
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