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Increasing gauge numbers denote decreasing wire diameters, which is
similar to many other non-metric gauging systems such as British Standard Wire Gauge (SWG), but unlike IEC 60228, the metric wire-size standard used in most parts of the world. This gauge system originated in the number of drawing operations used to produce a given gauge of wire. Very fine wire (for example, 30 gauge) required more passes through the drawing dies than 0 gauge wire did. Manufacturers of wire formerly had proprietary wire gauge systems; the development of standardized wire gauges rationalized selection of wire for a particular purpose. -- Wikip Did all know this? |
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On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 2:00:26 AM UTC-5, micky wrote:
Increasing gauge numbers denote decreasing wire diameters, which is similar to many other non-metric gauging systems such as British Standard Wire Gauge (SWG), but unlike IEC 60228, the metric wire-size standard used in most parts of the world. This gauge system originated in the number of drawing operations used to produce a given gauge of wire. Very fine wire (for example, 30 gauge) required more passes through the drawing dies than 0 gauge wire did. Manufacturers of wire formerly had proprietary wire gauge systems; the development of standardized wire gauges rationalized selection of wire for a particular purpose. -- Wikip Did all know this? A-merican W-ire G-auge Somewhere between Caliber (which is fractions of an inch) and arbitrary convention. Once upon a time, wire was measured in fractions-of-whatever, much as railway timetables were arbitrary and based on local time. After a large number of crashes, railroads created a convention which is now GMT. And, US wire manufacturers adopted a similar convention so as to be able to sell products beyond their back yards - somewhere just before the Civil War as I remember - mid 1850s or so. https://www.rapidtables.com/calc/wir...uge-chart.html Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA |
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