Black Powder Coat T304 Stainless 60" wide 24 Mesh

Mesh Per Inch: 24
Wire Diameter: 0.0085

Stainless steel meshes with wire diameters from .001 inch to .010 are easily cut with scissors. The heavier wire diameters from .011 up to about .047 can be cut with tin snips. Wire diameters over .047 inches are difficult to cut with hand tools but a compound aircraft-style hand shear can usually nibble its way through.

Stainless Steel Wire Mesh - Choosing
How do I choose a mesh size?

In general, our website gives detailed descriptions and pictures of many stainless steel meshes.

For someone unfamiliar with wire mesh size terminology, 2 mesh has two wires in each direction in a square inch. You could easily pass a pencil through the openings.

16 mesh has 16 wires in each direction in a square inch. This mesh is used in a window or porch screens to keep out common insects.

60 mesh has 60 wires each direction in a square inch and is the size commonly used in kitchen faucets. An 80 mesh has an opening which will barely pass a human hair.

An idea of how thick the wire is can be estimated using the fact that a piece of paper is about three thousandths (.003) of an inch thick. So, a wire .018 inches thick is equal to 6 sheets of paper. (.018 divided by .003 equals 6). The total thickness of the woven meshes will be about twice the thickness of a single wire. In this case, it would have an overall thickness equal to 12 sheets of paper.

Stainless Steel Square Wire Mesh Uses: Stainless steel wire mesh and stainless steel wire cloth products are widely used in petroleum, chemical industry, environment protection, mine, airspace, paper-making,electronic, metallurgy etc. Special size and specification are available according to customers requirement.