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    NEXT WEEK

    Quizzical Pursuit
    —The Architecture Puzzler

    Created by Dave Guadagni

    Solution to Last Week's Puzzler
    Architecture Puzzler #80

    Question

    If you specified an uncoated steel material to be 18 gauge, how thick in inches or millimeters would it be? How thick in inches or millimeters for 22 gauge?

    Answer

    Eighteen gauge is 0.0478 inches nominal (1.214 millimeters), or about 1/16 inches. Twenty-two gauge is 0.0299 inches nominal (0.759 millimeters), or about 1/32 inches.
     


     

    Okay, got it? Now try this week's Puzzler:

    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/quiz.html

     

    Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects

    Quizzical Pursuit is Copyright 2002, Dave Guadagni.

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