Very Thin Steel Sheets

[Jay Pique]

I'd like to obtain a piece of steel or aluminum that's about .001x6x24 inches in dimension.

Can you purchase such a thing? At a reasonable price? (ie. $20 or less)

JP

[Paul Franklin]

mcmaster.com search for "shim stock" they have as thin as .0005.

HTH,

Paul

[Doug]

You can get a roll of .001 steel shim stock 6" x 100" roll for about $7 + shipping at McMasterCarr item#9500K11. They have aluminum also but the thinnest they have is .002

doug

[Leon]

How thick is Aluminum Foil that you use in the kitchen?

[Bill Orr]

Aluminum flashing is .002 in, I think. Is that too thick?available at builder supply houses. Comes in small rolls, 18" or 24"

Bill

[Leon]

I think it may be closer to .020". .001" is about the thickness of thin paper. IIRC a dollar bill folded in half is about .005" thick.

[Bill Orr]

OK, I went and measured it. According to my feeler gage and calipers, it is .002 ", .05 mm. It came from Home Depot. I also measured the dollar bill folded in half; your are right there.

"> I think it may be closer to .020". .001" is about the thickness of thin

[Doug Miller]

Aluminum flashing that's only two thou thick?

What department at HD did that come from?

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[John]

Roll of aluminum foil I have here mike's out at 0.001

John

[BillyBob]

and what application is it sold for?

[Bill Orr]

** Try Ace Hardware.

They call it flashing. They call it .0101 ga but it measures .002 inches, about the same thickness of a sheet of

24 weight computer printing paper.

[Bill Orr]

[Bill Orr]

I measured the flashing again with different calipersand have to admit (red faced) that it is closer to .01 inches. My apologies to everyone.

Bill

[Guess who]

It looks to be twice the thickness wanted I think.

[Guess who]

Varies. It can be .25mm. 0.001" = .025mm You'd have to pound it with a mallet, so for uniformity it's best to go commercial as has been suggested.

[Doug Miller]

That makes a little more sense... ten thou qualifies as light-gauge flashing. Two thou is foil. Thanks for the followup.

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[George E. Cawthon]

Damn you, it's 11:25 pm here and you spoiled my end year jerk retort! After reading a bunch of this thread I thought this would be a good time to go get my new Harbor Freight set of micrometers and see what was going on. I have a piece of that thin aluminum flashing from HD and I have aluminum foil. The flashing measures 0.011 inches (three places), aluminum foil (not heavy duty) measures 0.001 inches.

Don't feel bad. Wait till you get so old you start telling everybody the snow was 4 feet deep every year when you were a kid. So someone looks up the stats and finds out it hasn't been more than 30 inches deep in the last 95 years.

[Leon]

that sounds more like Aluminum Leaf....;~) I would not want to use that on my roof.

[Larry Blanchard]

I just measured some I got from Home Depot or Lowes about a year ago. It's 0.009 or a 0.01 with an HD fudge factor :-).

[Larry Blanchard]

Mine was .009 so either HD has their usual quality control or I got mine at Lowes :-).