Car Panel Sheet Metal Gauge

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Car panel sheet metal gauge.

Mostly but at times will use discarded hoods fenders for patches for your jeep i d use 18 ga. 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. 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. A final characteristic of auto body sheet metal that should be considered is its basic gauge or thickness.

When doing old car restorations sometimes its simpler to replace an entire panel instead of trying to straighten it or repair rust spots. The first thing you ll need to do is cut out the rust from the body panel. Cold rolled is rolled and formed cold hence the name and it has tighter tolerances and a nicer slag free finish. There are half a dozen gauge wire and sheet steel gauge standards running around out there but automotive material is generally described by the manufacturers standard gauge for sheet steel standard.

Cold rolled sheet is what you want 18 19 or 20 gauge is best for bodypanels. Sheet metal supplies sources a comprehensive range of metallic coated hot and cold rolled automotive steel products from bluescope. Dc for patch panels at the college autobody we use 18 ga. A plasma cutter is my favorite tool for cutting metal.

Sheet metal is only thin so you won t need a very powerful welder just check the metal thickness of your sheet metal with the welder specifications to get the best one for your needs. And we use 023 and c25 for all.