On Friday 04 February 2005 00:48, Pat Naughtin wrote: .... Pat, I don't know this from first hand experience, but we at SCC14 have been told by one of our very knowledgeable members that there are actually a number of AWGs. There is one for electrical wire, one for music wire, and so forth. I myself have seen web pages that give various wire gages for different materials (brass, iron, steel) but those all had different names and only one set of values was shown for AWG --- presumably for electrical wire. I think that there is a different series for solid copper, stranded copper, aluminum clad copper and so forth.
A copy of ASTM B258-02 is on its way to me so soon I hope to know more about that series, or those several series, as the case may be. Jim > Dear Jim, > > My only experience with wire sizes was when I worked on the development of > a new Australian piano in the late 1980s. We were confronted with wires > from the USA and from England and Europe that were specified in several > different gauge sizes. .... -- James R. Frysinger Lifetime Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist Senior Member, IEEE http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: Physics Lab Manager, Lecturer Dept. of Physics and Astronomy University/College of Charleston 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424 843.953.7644 (phone) 843.953.4824 (FAX) Home: 10 Captiva Row Charleston, SC 29407 843.225.0805
