BROWN & SHARPE GAGES (B & S)

A standard series of sizes arbitrarily indicated, as by numbers, to which the diameter of wire or thickness of sheet metal is usually made and which is used in the manufacture of brass, bronze, copper, copper-base alloys and aluminum. These gaga numbers have a definite relationship to each other. By this system the decimal thickness is reduced by 50% every six gage numbers-while temper is expressed by the number of B & S gage numbers as cold reduced in thickness from previous annealing. For each B & S gage number in thickness reduction, there is assigned a hardness value of ?hard. To illustrate: One number hard = ?hard, two numbers hard = ? hard, etc.