Metal Thickness

[Odd]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> You folks on the other side of the pond,
how do you measure the size of your shotgun? <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"> Most of us by far don't have a shotgun. Have no need for it,
this is the 21st century - we've grown out of toying around with guns.
(Personally I own an old inherited Huskvarna (Mauser type) rifle - locked up in a weapons safe
I haven't opened for at least 10 years... Rifles are measured in millimeters; Like 6.5mm for mine...)

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> Or wire size? <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"> When it comes to electrical wire, the size is measured in the conductive area of the metal wire core,
given in squaremillimeters or millimeterssquare [mm²]

[Cobber]

<font size="2"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Here in Oz wire is measured in mm<font size="1">2</font id="size1"> but sometimes it's referred to in gauge sizes.
Sheet metal is measured in mm (thickness) but sometimes it too is referred to in gauge sizes.
Shotgun bores are measured in gauge sizes, with the exception of the .410 which it's bore is measured in imperial calibre size.
Other firearm bores are measured in either metric or imperial calibre sizes depending of the measuring system in use at the time of manufacture in their country of origin. </font id="Comic Sans MS"></font id="size2">

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