Weight Calculator & Conversion Chart
Great Lakes Specialty Metals offers a simple and easy-to-use metal weight calculator and measurement conversion chart as tools to help you approximate how much your metal will weigh. Simply enter your metal type, metal shape, and size information, and we’ll calculate the rest for you! If you have any questions or are ready to order what you need, contact a member of our team to get started.
| FRACTION – DECIMAL – MILLIMETER | ||||||
| inches | decimal | mm | Inches | decimal | mm | |
| 1/32 | 0.03125 | 0.7937 | 17/32 | 0.53125 | 13.4937 | |
| 1/16 | 0.06250 | 1.5875 | 9/16 | 0.56250 | 14.2875 | |
| 3/32 | 0.09375 | 2.3812 | 19/32 | 0.59375 | 15.0812 | |
| 1/8 | 0.12500 | 3.1750 | 5/8 | 0.62500 | 15.8750 | |
| 5/32 | 0.15625 | 3.9687 | 21/32 | 0.65625 | 16.6687 | |
| 3/16 | 0.18750 | 4.7625 | 11/16 | 0.68750 | 17.4625 | |
| 7/32 | 0.21875 | 5.5562 | 23/32 | 0.71875 | 18.2562 | |
| 1/4 | 0.25000 | 6.3500 | 3/4 | 0.7500 | 19.0600 | |
| 9/32 | 0.28125 | 7.1437 | 25/32 | 0.78125 | 19.8437 | |
| 5/16 | 0.31250 | 7.9375 | 13/16 | 0.81250 | 20.6375 | |
| 11/32 | 0.34375 | 8.7312 | 27/32 | 0.84375 | 21.4312 | |
| 3/8 | 0.37500 | 9.5250 | 7/8 | 0.87500 | 22.2250 | |
| 13/32 | 0.40625 | 10.3187 | 29/32 | 0.90625 | 23.0187 | |
| 7/16 | 0.43750 | 11.1125 | 15/16 | 0.9375 | 23.8125 | |
| 15/32 | 0.46875 | 11.9062 | 31/32 | 0.96875 | 24.6062 | |
| 1/2 | 0.50000 | 12.7000 | 1 | 1.00000 | 25.4001 | |
Our Metal Shapes
In our extensive inventory we carry rounds, flats, hexes, squares, angles (equal and unequal leg), sheet (both 2B and #4 polished), pipe, plate and all varieties of tubing (round, square and rectangular). If not in stock, we can locate it for you.
Industries Served
We have 9 trucks and offer delivery to the Chicagoland area, Wisconsin and the Midwest region. Material that is in stock from either warehouse can be pulled and delivered the next day. Will calls can be ready the same day the order is placed and usually within a few hours. In special situations delivery may even be possible the same day the order is placed.
