M.B. Naegle
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 7, 2011
- Location
- Conroe, TX USA
Does anyone know of a good chart available for sale with gauge-to-inches conversions on it, or other helpful tinsmith information?
We have several of the hand-held gauges around the place, and the conversion info can be found in books or online, but it would be handy to have a hard sign or card to attach to the sheer or hang on the wall beside it. There are times where we're not trying to identify a mystery piece of metal (via the hand held gauge), but rather trying to engineer-on-the-fly figuring out what gauge of metal to use as a shim, or something like that. We build our own machine guards and the like frequently, but not often enough to memorize the values. And tinsmithing doesn't seem to be a common skill among fabricators or machinists these days, unless you work on hot rods.
Might make my own, but would rather do something cleaner than a sheet of copy paper laminated in packing tape.
eBay has this one, though I think it odd they leave off values for carbon steel as I'd assume that would be the most common?
eBay chart
And Ryerson has these charts online that I might contact them to see if they have them in print/promo form. I'd imagine their specific values are going to be specific to their materials and might be different from another steel mills.
Ryerson chart
We have several of the hand-held gauges around the place, and the conversion info can be found in books or online, but it would be handy to have a hard sign or card to attach to the sheer or hang on the wall beside it. There are times where we're not trying to identify a mystery piece of metal (via the hand held gauge), but rather trying to engineer-on-the-fly figuring out what gauge of metal to use as a shim, or something like that. We build our own machine guards and the like frequently, but not often enough to memorize the values. And tinsmithing doesn't seem to be a common skill among fabricators or machinists these days, unless you work on hot rods.
Might make my own, but would rather do something cleaner than a sheet of copy paper laminated in packing tape.
eBay has this one, though I think it odd they leave off values for carbon steel as I'd assume that would be the most common?
eBay chart
And Ryerson has these charts online that I might contact them to see if they have them in print/promo form. I'd imagine their specific values are going to be specific to their materials and might be different from another steel mills.
Ryerson chart