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Posted by George E. Cawthon on August 12, 2005, 12:30 am
Duane Bozarth wrote:
> Vic Dura wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:39:52 -0500, Duane Bozarth
>>
>>
>>>Vic Dura wrote:
>>>
>>>>Just curious about something. Is there a relationship between "gauge"
>>>>and linear measure such as inches or centimeters? Is the diameter of a
>>>>14-gauge wire the same thickness as 14-gauge metal sheet?
>>>>--
>>>>To email me directly, remove CLUTTER.
>>>
>>>No, as Vic says, wire and thickness "gage" measurements are different
>>>scales. To make it even more interesting, there are differing gage
>>>scales as well (at least six in my Perry's).
>>
>>What are the six in your Perry's? I can think of three:
>
>
> Rather than being totally different applications, they're varying wire
> and thickness standards most of which have proprietary backgrounds from
> early manufacturing days before national/international standards were
> common/established. There are relatively small differences (in absolute
> terms) between these, but the differences can be significant in close
> tolerance applications. For typical household wiring, the differences
> are not significant.
>
>
>>1) wire diameter
>
>
> - AWG or Brown & Sharpe (normally non-ferrous wire and sheet altho
> footnote shows sometimes used for iron wire as well)
>
> - US Steel Wire or Washburn&Moen or Roebling or Am. Steel&Wire
> - Birmingham (BWG for steel wire) or Stubs Iron Wire
> - Imperial Standard Wire Gage
>
>
>>2) steel thickness
>
> - US Standard
> - Standard Birmingham
>
> I'm sure there are probably others--I didn't look at what are current
> ISO standards, for example.
>
>
>>3) shot gun cartridge
>
>
> Totally different scale and I don't have data at hand.
how about railroad gauge, is that in your book?
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