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INDUSTRIAL HARDWARE
CLOTH
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This specification covers woven or welded
galvanized steel wire fabric commercially known as hardware cloth. It is customarily used
for window and screen door guards, tree guards, industrial machine guards, sand screens,
and grain bins. It serves as a protective screen against rodents and is used for many
other home, farm, and industrial purposes. |
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Hardware Cloth is wire cloth woven using the
lightest wire diameter which a given mesh can be produced with good stability. After
weaving, Hardware Wire Cloth is galvanized with a bright protective coating of zinc. |
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Galvanized Hardware Cloth
Meshes Per
Linear Inch |
Opening |
Gauge |
Wire Diameter
After Galvanizing |
Percent Open
Area |
Inches |
mm |
# |
Inches |
mm |
2 Mesh |
0.459" |
11.66 |
19 |
0.0410" |
1.04 |
84.3% |
3 Mesh |
0.301" |
7.65 |
21 |
0.0317" |
0.81 |
81.5% |
4 Mesh |
0.224" |
5.69 |
23 |
0.0258" |
0.66 |
80.0% |
8 Mesh |
0.108" |
2.74 |
27 |
0.0173" |
0.44 |
74.0% |
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Specification A740-98, Standard Specification for
Hardware Cloth (Woven or Welded Galvanized Steel Wire Fabric) |
